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Not dead yet: the danger of ‘End-ism’

by admin on 04. Sep, 2010 in Media, Tech companies

End of Work: if only… <there are still links to be added to this> I once read a great book by Jeremy Rifkin called The End of Work. It was full of intersting stuff and based on the underlying assumption that we’re heading towards a workless society. Great, but  these days, all the talk is [...]

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A month to go, and it’s all getting serious

by admin on 24. Aug, 2010 in About the book

For someone like myself, blessed with both a mild form of attention deficiency disorder, writing and  publishing a book is a  a challenging process. First, there is the actual writing – both the physical process of sitting down and putting tens of thousands of words down; and the intellectual challenge of carrying a consistent argument [...]

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Three books by consultants I totally recommend

by admin on 26. Jul, 2010 in Other books

Put down your copy of Cognitive Surplus or Rework, it’s time to talk business: or at least three books about business written by consultants that I think anyone who  reckons they know what disrupted businesses should do next should read. Consultants have one great advantage when they’re writing books: they are walking bibles of case [...]

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A big ‘woo’ for ‘WooThemes’

by admin on 26. Jul, 2010 in Blogging

I love Lloyd’s South London Post even though, of course, living in deepest Surrey, I have no interest in all of this urban stuff. I particularly loved the design, which was my introduction to the fabulous Woothemes. I’d been looking to tart up this blog for a while, and frankly no matter how many times [...]

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Thoughts after a slow and painful re-read

by admin on 26. Jul, 2010 in About the book

Image via Wikipedia I’ve spent the last couple of weeks proof-reading my book. This has been my final chance to make some tweaks to the text before it goes off to the printer. Unfortunately, it has needed more than a few ‘tweaks’ – and I found I had to rewrite a few chunks of text [...]

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The smartest thing anyone said to me…

by admin on 22. Jul, 2010 in About the book, Companies

Image by Getty Images via @daylife Just reading the proofs of Creative Disruption and re-reading my section of Deutsche Post. I’ve written about them as proof of how you can move into new adjacent markets,but only after you have fixed your core business. Deutsche Post started the modernisation programme on their network back in 1990, [...]

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The painful process of proof reading

by admin on 21. Jul, 2010 in About the book

I’ve been working on the proofs of Creative Disruption, this week. This is when the book comes back all nicely laid out, and you are advices to only make minor adjustments. Which I’m kind of doing, but reading back a lot of my prose needs a little more than ‘minor adjustments’. The flaws in my [...]

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Relief and amazement…copy editing is over

by admin on 15. Jun, 2010 in About the book

The copy editing is over, and my great oeuvre is off to be typeset. I managed to squeeze in a few hundred words about porn – a topic which could have fillled a book on its own. I still have a nagging feeling that the whole thing actually needs to be completely rewritten, but that [...]

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And so, to the editing

by admin on 02. Jun, 2010 in About the book

I’ve had the manuscript back from the editor, and when I’m not working or trying to enjoy a bit of sun, it looks like the next few days are going to be dominated with dealing with that. The problem is, I hate reading back anything I’ve ever written – always have done. In the same [...]

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I’m moving on…farewell Guardian, hello LOVEFiLM

by admin on 04. May, 2010 in About Me

In February 1996, I walked into the Guardian’s New Media Lab to work a few days a week on some of their very early internet projects. What started as a part time role, became full time. I moved from editorial to management; took a place on the Guardian board and then moved to (Guardian Media) [...]

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