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What’s your personal mission statement?

I met up with a friend this week and we got chatting about what motivates us in our work. He’s a journalist, I’m a user experience designer, but that’s just […]

Instagram vs Quora and the Battle for Attention

The past couple of months I  (like many others) have found two new social media services to play with: Quora, a social question-and-answer platform, and Instagram, a social photo-sharing application. […]

Ebooks vs Digital Magazines

Yesterday Amazon announced its latest quarterly financial results. One of the highlights was the news that ebooks for the Kindle are now outselling paperback books. Since the beginning of the […]

Google puts the ‘product guy’ in charge

The news that Larry Page has taken over from Eric Schmidt as CEO at Google was unexpected but in retrospect not surprising. The Guardian’s Technology Editor Charles Arthur points out that […]

Back to work, back to distraction

So I thought I was going to ease slowly back into gear in 2011. But now here we are, two weeks in, and I’m close to full throttle. Is it […]

What I learned during the holidays (about user experience, digital publishing and all that)

I don’t know about you, but I find the Christmas break offers a great time to reflect. As I spend most of this holiday time at home and with friends […]

Great content is about story telling and authenticity

Tomorrow I’m delivering a keynote speech to Origin Publishing and BBC Magazines Bristol. I’ll be talking about crafting content in a multi-media world, and two of my key themes will […]

Flipboard: social media where content comes first

Everyone’s talking about Flipboard, the magazine/social media hybrid for the iPad. It looks like this really could point the way forward for consumption of social media, and also be the […]

Is it time for the consumer to compromise a little bit?

Okay, so we’ve known for some time that in online media the consumer is king. But is it just me or are consumers starting to demand a little bit too […]