Life as a beta geek

One of the effects of blogging about the Tools of Change conference was that the traffic to this blog, which normally toddles along at an almost non-existent a charmingly amateurish level, increased by about two thousand percent in the second half of February. Looking at referral logs and responding to a few comments and emails has […]

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While I was in New York for the Tools of Change conference, I picked up a Sony PRS-505 e-book reader, which I’ve been using for a week now. Thus far, it’s been an almost entirely pleasurable experience.

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Well, Tools of Change is over, and I’m sitting at the Hachette offices in New York waiting to get some lunch before I fly home. The conference was absolutely terrific, and I feel enthused and better informed on a whole range of subjects. Thanks to everyone who has read or commented on my conference notes […]

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This is the third in a series of posts with my notes from 2008 Tools of Change conference, including presentations by Bob Young, Tim O’Reilly and Kirk Biglione.

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This is the second in a series of posts with my notes from 2008 Tools of Change conference, including presentations by Brent Lewis, John Ingram and Barry Libert.

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This is the first in a series of posts with my notes from 2008 Tools of Change conference, including presentations from Stephen Abram, Bill Burger, Douglas Rushkoff, Seth Godin and Ben Vershbow. The italicised passages are the descriptions of each segment from the programme, to provide some context. Any errors of transcription are, naturally, entirely […]

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Last week I gave a presentation at The Bookseller seminar Reaching Readers Online 2008. It was good to see lots of friendly faces, including Peter and James from Apt Studio and Darren Turpin from DTL; and to meet Kate Hyde from Fifth Estate and Sara Lloyd from Macmillan.
For anyone who missed the seminar, or for attendees […]

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