UsVsTh3m features in ‘Formats unpacked’
Bless him, Hugh Garry, who I have worked with at Storythings in the past, this week chose one of the UsVsTh3m quizzes as the topic for his regular Formats Unpacked newsletter. He wrote about The North-o-Meter, saying, among other things:…
Katie Coxall
I was very upset this morning to learn that Katie Coxall passed away yesterday. If you’ve been on the same corners of the internet as me you’ll undoubtedly know her work as mushybees, and she was the person behind the…
Raising some money for Katie
If you’ve been following me for some time you will probably best know Katie’s work from the distinctive caricature style of UsVsTh3m back in the day. If you’ve been on the internet, well, ever, and you like cool illustrations you’ll…
Matt Round on his personal highlights from UsVsTh3m
I’ve tried to avoid getting all misty-eyed on here about UsVsTh3m and Ampp3d and Row Zed and all that j@zz, but this is a lovely blog post from Matt Round who worked on some of the interactive stuff we did…
There is so much more to having a successful article online than just pressing publish
I wrote yesterday about “8 things we learned covering #GE2015 for Ampp3d & UsVsTh3m” and my friend/former colleague/drinking partner/fellow Doctor Who fan/beard rival Richard Beech chipped in with another couple in a blog post on the blog that he said…
8 things we learned covering #GE2015 for Ampp3d & UsVsTh3m
Last month I gave a short talk at Hacks/Hackers London about covering the 2015 General Election with Ampp3d and UsVsTh3m. Here are 8 things we learned. 1. We don’t have much useful digital “prior art” It is possible this is…
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…
Wittgenstein is the sincerest form of flattery
On Friday afternoon, at the height of #TheDress, I thought to myself, what is the silliest possible article that I could write on this topic? The one that will be held up as an example of how the media lost…
Shat on the Telegraph
At the weekend, Gary Lineker watched his boyhood team Leicester City come from 3-1 down to beat Manchester United 5-3. He got excited and swore on Twitter. He’s a football fan. I’m not sure they can be at the Telegraph….
Current status: Winning at the internet with Trinity Mirror
Last week Digiday had a piece looking at Trinity Mirror’s success with digital experimentation. It’s always lovely to see things you’ve worked on having a real effect on a company. Here’s a couple of key points from Chris Smith’s piece……