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Digital: the hardback edition

Here I am, furi­ously study­ing for my MSc, when a thought struck me.

Given that this is a course on digital mar­ket­ing com­mu­nic­a­tions, why has my book col­lec­tion increased over the past few months?

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Welcome to the world of tomorrow!

Fuelled by this week’s MSc “home­work”, I have been engaged in quite a few con­ver­sa­tions about innov­a­tions and near-future tech­no­logy. What I found was that is becom­ing more and more com­mon­place to find tech­no­logy in the real world that fea­tured in science-fiction stor­ies. What is scary, how­ever, is how fast the pre­di­citions in fic­tion are becom­ing true (per­haps there is a need to re-write Moore’s Law to reflect this?). In this first part of a series of my take on real-world use of fant­astic tech­no­logy I am look­ing at the Ges­ture User Inter­face — trail-blazed by Apple’s iPod Touch, iPhone and, most recently, the iPad. More >

EnglishVoodoo arrives!

Finally!

It’s taken me a long time to sort myself out with my blog, hav­ing gone through at least four dif­fer­ent styles and names — now that it is a new year and I have finally made it to my 40s, I’m pretty happy with it! More >

Bot or Not

I’ve decided to run a bit of a social media exper­i­ment using Twit­ter which I’m call­ing “Bot or Not”.

Essen­tially the aim is to tweet a ran­dom bunch of brand names and industry-specific acronyms (SEO, PPC, etc) to see if I gain any auto­mated fol­low­ers and, more import­antly, to see which brands have a human­ised buzz mon­it­or­ing strategy in place. More >

The start of a new phase

I have recently star­ted study­ing a 3-year part-time MSc in Digital Mar­ket­ing Com­mu­nic­a­tions. The reason I chose to do this was because I felt I have worked in the digital industry since 1997 and because I have been self-taught all this time, per­haps I would bene­fit from some focused learn­ing in this area. More >

Officially freaked out

So, I’m cur­rently work­ing in Toronto for a week, stay­ing in a nice down­town hotel. Ima­gine my sur­prise when I opened by hotel room safe and found the fol­low­ing note: More >

Solo dining part 2

Good news!

My pizza came and it was fab! Hun­ger sated and mood bet­ter — nice!

Solo dining

I know I may come across as Billy No-mates, but quite hon­estly I have never felt more like a leper than right now. More >

Adventures in Manchester, part 1

On Sat­urday even­ing I gathered some friends and made the decision to go and see the new Star Trek film at the IMAX in Manchester.

Sounds like a good idea right? I thought so. We’d meet up, grab some­thing to eat, see the film and go for a few beers in the city centre. It almost went to plan …

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The Guvna’ arrives

The new sculpt from Reaper arrived today and it’s a gem! More >