Steady, As She Goes

As I’m sure you’d noticed, journalism is changing. Like certain other industries, it’s been slow to adapt to the internet’s disruption. Then there’s the problem of fake news, compounded by non-news and too much news generally. In...

Around The World

Wherever you go in the world, there’s a service you can use based on a brilliant idea: Touchnote lets you send personalised postcards featuring your own photo (or one of their designs), then you add your message and they print the card and post it anywhere the...

Something Wicked This Way Comes

I’ve written before about the three layers of the internet: The top layer, the ‘tip of the iceberg’, which includes all the famous the sites everyone online knows about and, basically, any content that can be accessed via hyperlinks Then...

Like To Get To Know You Well

Want to be a freelance writer or editor? One piece of advice: Get used to working with different content management systems/CMSs. In my experience, they’re all pretty much the same, some are more robust than others and some more intuitive. Whether it’s...

Uptown Top Ranking

There’s another Alexa, also owned by Amazon, that for some is more useful than the one that provides assistance with setting alarms, pressing a button somewhere at home, or searching on Google. Alexa.com is a different beast. It reports on web traffic and ranks...