*the author, not the hockey player
A long time ago I had a Blogspot blog that I updated multiple times a week. It has been (wisely, thankfully) lost to the ages, but occasionally I'll put some thoughts and announcements here.
26 February, 2025
I've attended the Ticketing Professionals Conference for the last 3 years in a row. In 2025, I'm (sadly) sitting it out, but here's what I'd be doing if I were there.
Read the rest of "What you should do at Ticketing Professionals this year (and every year)"
6 February, 2025
It's hard to get your own work published, but helping others with theirs costs you nothing.
6 January, 2025
After ten years, I decided to resurrect a web comic I wrote in the early 2000s. What did I need to change to make it work for today's audiences?
26 December, 2024
After a ten-year hiatus, Marx is back.
13 November, 2024
I decided I wanted to be a writer in the late 90s. Would I still make the same decision now?
3 October, 2024
I sat down to write about what I learned from building a website with my 9-year-old. Then I realised that was beside the point.
Read the rest of "NOT thinking about websites like a 9-year-old"
3 September, 2024
It's been ten years since I published my novel. What have I been doing ever since?
25 July, 2024
It's been half a year or so since I launched this website of mine, and I thought it might be interesting to share some of the thinking that went into it. Why is this website the way it is? What's the digital strategy behind it?
1 July, 2024
I recently bought a copy of The Influencer Factory: A Marxist Theory of Corporate Personhood on YouTube, and I can’t remember the last time a book blew my mind quite so completely.
Read the rest of "The real problem with LinkedIn, according to Marxists"
27 April, 2024
At The Stage's Future of Theatre Conference 2024, I won the Big Ideas vote with my pitch for theatres to share their sales figures the same way the publishing industry does.
Read the rest of "Me and my big ideas: why the theatre industry should publish its sales figures"
19 March, 2024
My friend Joe self-published a book this year, which made me question a lot of my assumptions about the purpose of publishing.
18 March, 2024
Some shameless SEO bait in case anyone is googling me after seeing my name somewhere at a conference.
Read the rest of "Psst, you! The one Googling me at Ticketing Professionals!"
11 February, 2024
Are we just keeping conventional publishing around for the status?
5 February, 2024
I wrote a silly little article last month about what pasta packaging can teach you about user experience design — and people loved it.
14 January, 2024
Even if — God willing! — it turns out that humans are still The Sustainable Choice, do we really want to invite that sort of calculation into evaluating creative work?
Read the rest of "Do we really want to know the carbon footprint of generative AI?"
8 January, 2024
Ah, the starving artist, that beautiful, romantic, cultural icon: a person so devoted to their creative vision that they'd sooner go hungry than pursue anything else. I hate the stupid starving artist.
20 December, 2023
Funny thing about day jobs: when you do something forty hours a week, every week for ten years, you can't help but start to identify with it.
19 December, 2023
Is this the start of a new, prolific period of blogging?
Browsin' like it's 1995
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