For some years I have been describing myself as a career schizophrenic. Since leaving my job as editor of PC Pro magazine in early 2004, I have pulled together an increasingly disparate range of activities to make a living, which in their turn have pulled me in many directions at once. Whilst remaining a prolific […]
E-commerce has been one of the main drivers of the Internet age, with sites like Amazon and Ebay becoming household names from nowhere in scarcely a decade. Their popularity has changed the face of retail in the “real world” forever. The latest trend of the last couple of years has been the flash sale, pioneered […]
Over more of the last few years than I should admit, I’ve been trying to put together a book that summarises and explains what is happening in the space where TV and film meet the Internet. Ever since I got interested in digital video editing, and the potential of online communications, around the same time […]
So I finally started an academic blog. Since I’ve been a permanent academic employee at Ravensbourne for around 9 months now, it seemed about time. Academia is still a very exclusive club. Research is still dominated by journals and specialist publishers which operate as gatekeepers for intellectual innovation. The exclusivity is in large part a […]
