Friday Reading S02E01
A round-up of some stuff that I enjoyed reading this week which you might enjoy reading too… Christopher Eccleston: ‘Dementia dismantled my father’s personality’ A genuinely moving piece from Chris Eccleston about dealing with his father’s slide into dementia. Read….
“Inspiring computer hardware for young people in the developing world” – Yonatan Raz-Fridman at #qznextbillion
I’m spending the day at Quartz’s event “The Next Billion”. Here are my notes from the talk by Yonatan Raz-Fridman, looking at giving kids the building blocks to make computers. “Inspiring computer hardware for young people in the developing world”…
“What makes video go viral in emerging markets?” – Cat Jones at #qznextbillion
I’m spending the day at Quartz’s event “The Next Billion”. Here are my notes from the talk by Cat Jones, looking at viral video. “What makes video go viral in emerging markets?” – Cat Jones Cat Jones is Product Director…
I wrote a thing about some things what I had made
A week is a long time in politics. This time last week I was hammering out story after story for Mirror Online, UsVsTh3m and Ampp3d, covering the General Election in a shift that lasted from 6pm on the Thursday night…
All change again for the BBC News website
The BBC News website will be getting a redesign today, as the desktop version is switched off, and everybody gets served the mobile/responisve site. Dave Lee has written a piece about the likely reaction to the change, which includes some…
Exclusive bropinion: A man has thinks
I realise that writing this blog post makes me a hypocrite and part of the problem, but tough. I’ve drafted it enough times in my head that not publishing it will make me explode. Men, on the whole, you are…
Terry Pratchett died and we had no words
An odd day today. Terry Pratchett died. I’m not a fan myself – never read one of his books – but my sister has been an avid reader over the years and it was obvious from the outpouring on social…