Hello. Me again.

Yes, I'm still here. Yes, I'm still reading (and commenting sometimes) on LJ. But no, I'm not using it very much. And that bothers me. Why?

Well, while I was at Le Web 3 in Paris at the tail end of last year, I had the chance to catch up with the CEO of Six Apart, as we're enterprise customers of theirs. One of the things he ( Read more... )

Poll The JQ

What are the positive and negative associations that you and those around you have with blogging?  Have attitudes changed over time?

Ah, good question, given that my day job* is getting a whole company's worth of journalists up and blogging. And, to be frank, the major problem is negative associations. Journalists' pre-conceived ideas of ( Read more... )

This is my 1,000th Livejournal post.

And, like so many that preceded it, it will be almost content-free.

I'm sat in the work Starbucks, drinking coffee, checking e-mail and slowly realising that I've been stood up for a meeting. Ho hum.

 My latest work update has been kindly provided by a Guardian journalist.

I may not appear until the end of the article, but my hidden hand is behind the rest.

So, what have I been working on, that's keeping me so quiet?

Well, as of tomorrow, HJi will be live, with a blog. For hairdressers. And I get to spend the morning at an exhibition for hairdressers. Hmm.

More seriously, we have the Road Transport Blog for truckers and van drivers.

Oh, and something on Biofuels. We haven't had time to put a pretty ( Read more... )

So, what's been happening with me?

Busy, busy, busy. I've pretty much completed my transition to full-time blogging expert for RBI, and have spent much of the morning on the phone to Six Apart sorting out which version of Movable Type we'll be using.

Otherwise, I've been busy attending a wedding and getting on with the house refurbAnd, of course ( Read more... )

So, I'm back in London ( Read more... )

I love it when software works well.

For example, I'm working remotely in Suffolk while keeping a weather eye on Mum right now. My work phone is redirected to my Skype account.

Now, when I answer an incoming call, the system automatically pauses iTunes while I have the conversation, and then unpauses when I'm done. It's such a little thing, but it ( Read more... )

Going through my RSS feeds this morning, it strikes me that I sometimes forget how lucky I am. I look at the number of people who are hoping, dreaming of making their living through writing - and realise that I've been doing that for 12 years ( Read more... )