Presented here, for purely self-indulgent reasons, are my top 10 albums of all time. Now, these aren't supposed to be the albums that I think have made the greatest impact on popular culture or anything like that – they're simply the ten that I seem to find myself coming back to more than any others. If you're interested enough to want to hear them, I've added Spotify links to each album below and created a Spotify playlist of the standout…
Graphene is an incredible substance that was discovered in Manchester, and yet you'd hardly know it based on how little it's talked about in the city. So, I was pleased that my good friends over at Marketing Manchester drew my attention to a new campaign designed to tie the city with the substance in the public consciousness. Take a look at the video. More of this kind of thing, please! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMJnBx117-E
With the news that Posterous is to shut down for good at the end of April, I thought it would be worth transferring my personal website over from Posterous to something I can better control, so here i am on WordPress.org. How log will I be here? I'm not sure. All I'll say is that transferring across was incredibly simple once a small hosting-relating problem that probably would affect anyone else was sorted. The only downside of the transfer that…
This week, TechHub Manchester was announced. This is exactly the the kind of support Manchester's fledgeling startup scene needs and helps address the issues I mentioned in my talk at TEDx Manchester earlier this year. It's a priviledge to be part of the founding team for TechHub Manchester. I'm still Managing Editor at The Next Web - this is something I'm involved in additionally because I believe in Manchester and what it can achieve. There's a lot of work to…
It's five years since my mum died. The fact that she chose a woodland burial rather than a traditional burial really upset me back in 2007. A gravestone is a substantial memorial. It's a fixed landmark that will pay tribute to the person buried beneath it via its chiseled words for possibly centuries after everyone who knew its subject have passed on too. An unmarked tree, surrounded by many others, lacks the same sense of reverence and permanence. I was scared…