Here’s a great blog entry from Mark Reeve, former editor of the Birmingham Post on why he’s leaving the newspaper industry after 25 years.

He brings up some very interesting points all of which, as a former journalist myself, I agree with.

A couple of days ago I asked the blogosphere if I could I swear in my own blog, which came about after hearing something on television that really got my goat. Read the rest of this entry »

Can I swear in my own blog? If so I will in my next entry. (And I really will swear, like Gordon Ramsay.)

I’ve been Tweeting since May 2008, but over the past few months I’ve slowed down. I’m fed up with the spammers, the self-appointed experts, the irrelevancies and the bores. And Stephen Fry; not that I follow him. Read the rest of this entry »

Aubin & Wills is a high-end clothing company with five stores in upmarket places, as well as an impressive e-commerce site. Read the rest of this entry »

A couple of years ago a client finally agreed that his business needed a new website. Read the rest of this entry »

The dust finally seems to be settling on the MP’s expenses saga, though I think it’s safe to say it won’t be too long before the issue pops up again in some way or other. Read the rest of this entry »

A few days ago I met up with some former colleagues from my days as an online journalist which is where we all got to know each other, and have remained friends ever since. We originally met back in 1999, and had all arrived there after lengthy careers working for newspapers in all corners of the UK. Read the rest of this entry »

Seeing as the whole world has gone Twitter mad, with blogs abound about how it’s revolutionised everyone’s lives; national newspapers frothing over it and selling it to the masses, as well as long-term users now proclaiming patronisingly “I told you so”, I thought I’d put my oar in. Read the rest of this entry »

The creative industry (PR, marketing, advertising, design etc) has many cynics and critics, from Jeremy Clarkson’s endless jibes at marketing men wearing designer shades while driving their BMWs through to Absolutely Fabulous, and the lesser known Absolute Power. Read the rest of this entry »