Over the last couple of weeks I have had a few students ask me for advice about setting up a blog for the first time. As a guy who has been blogging for the last 5 years in various shapes and forms this is the advice I would give those treading the waters of the blogosphere for the first time. I have only written 9 tips so that people can freely commented and add their own suggestions. 1. Don’t start... 

Those of you who follow my Twitter feed will know that over the last couple of weeks I have mentioned interviews and inevitably tweeted a string of grumbles that comes from travelling into a busy city, London. One of the companies I had an interview with was Microsoft. At 7:15pm last Wednesday I got an unexpected call from a lady at Microsoft informing me that I had managed to get the job. I have to... 

For those who were there on the evening you would have seen Tim Hamilton rushing about with a camera. Here are the photos from the #AddMe Conference. I have also written a 1000 piece about the conference in Behind the Spin magazine which can be found here. [Gallery not found]  Read More →

The conservative candidate for Cheltenham, Mark Coote, was kind enough to invite me out as his guest to a talk by the journalist Andrew Pierce (Go on Andrew, join Twitter!). Described as a “fearless writer” by the Guardian, Andrew’s career has seen him step from the Gloucestershire Echo, to The Telegraph and now to The Daily Mail. A somewhat questioned move since Jan Moir’s heavily bigoted... 

This blog has been running for over 12 months and has been the most successful project I have done on the internet. To have ownership over a website that receives more than 40,000 visits over the course of a year is an honour. It is only you, the reader, who I have to thank. So thank you for visiting this blog and making my life in the digital world wondrous and worthwhile. However it does feel like...