The Silence of the Editor

Quiet round here. I’m editing the Beatle Man. Its going OK. In the re-read I made myself laugh. I take that as a good sign. I’m at Chapter 11 and I’ve come to one of the first and biggest excisions. Dropping a character and a small sub-plot. Its...

The uselessness of modern man

Hey wow, look at me, typing into this computer, blogging if you don’t know. I’ve got qualifications you know, I know so much stuff, I am the modern man, OK, not in that metrosexual way, but I am a man of technology, I know stuff, I can do stuff, I am going...

Convergence, Information, Learning and Semantics

Hope the subject line didn’t put you off, couldn’t think of anything suitably pithy to summarise what I wanted to write about.Lets get the background out of the way. We have the Internet crammed with great information repositories (and even more rubbish...

No, not the Brandy

There are those among my reader(sic) that believe my love of Albert Camus comes from a teenager’s desire for pretentious chic or, at best, some sort of angsty, pseudo-philosophical hankering. ( And anyway, if I had wanted to be pretentious for the sake of it, I...

Stumble – You Know You Want To

As someone would have said if he were still alive, the Internet is big. Very big. (he may have even said it while he was alive, he was like that). I would add that, if you’re not careful, it can be pointlessly big. Lets face it, the way most of us use the...