smoked mozzarella madea at #CladdaghFarms

I was always told “You don’t go looking in ladies’ handbags, you never know what you might find” which seemed more of a temptation to me than a discouragement. And in that spirit, today I’m going to open up my one-man social media empire bag and let you know exactly what’s in it. First an…

Here’s something Tuttle did for me. Last Friday, at the first, select, meetup of the year, I got a tweet from @jjsanderson saying that a friend of his was trying to get in but couldn’t find the back door. Typical stuff for me on a Friday. A moment later, Vinay Gupta came up the stairs…

Martyn Clark organised and recorded a collaborative album of improvised music with me and 10 other artistes in his living room in (roughly) 48 hours. Megan and Stephen Appleton drove around the south-eastern coast of Angus for an evening, including an excitable encounter with flying puffins. Two very different experiences with my hosts so far,…

[I feel the need to put this post straight a little. The following two paragraphs are not my view, I was one of those who disagreed with the tone and substance of Mena’s speech, and I was active in the backchannel before and after (my handle was perfectpath – you can see what I said),…

IndieGoGo has the concept of Perks – incentives for people to contribute, these might be simply emotional: "We'll love you forever and you'll feel warm and fuzzy"; they might entitle donors to access to early product "Get a DVD of the rough-cut  of our movie"; or something else connected with the project, t-shirts, high-res images,…

Gotta sew a button on my vest, December 10th, we’re gonna look our best Cos’ Scoble’s back in town. Presumably on their way back from gay Purree where Les Blogs Part Deux is (allegedly) taking place earlier in the week, the Scobles are hitting London town again and Hugh has booked the Texas Embassy for…