I’m blogging my new startup

To coincide with my thirtieth birthday I received the exciting news that I have just received £50,000 of seed funding for my new business idea.
I am very happy and excited!
The funding has come about after about nine months work producing a series of prototypes, doing market analysis and research, then putting together an 80 page [...]

On turning 30 and thinking “so that was my twenties…”

I’ve just turned 30.
And Andrew Dubber convinced Pete Ashton to interview me on the subject on camera at a friends-over-for-lunch party I had today. We only seemed to get through about 10% of the things that I’m actually feeling about being thirty, but the experience of being filmed seems to focus my mind… In the [...]

The Post-SXSW Interactive “Brain Dump”

Last night the crew from the SXSWM trip got together for what we were calling the ‘Post SXSW Brain Dump’ which is available as a 1 hr 15 min video on Bambuser.
Those present (left to right): Joanna Geary, Ruth Ward, Nick Lockey, Me - Stef Lewandowski, Pete Ashton and Dom Murphy.
The idea was that we’d [...]

Mobile Spam, Scams and Halifax First Assist

For the last few weeks I’ve been receiving a handful of phone calls every day from the same few numbers. It just feels like I’m in some kind of bad advert!
Here’s the script for a fictitious government ad campaign on data privacy:
Int. day. A small home office. Emails are flying, deals are being made, code [...]

Archive TV Launches

The Crime Wave from Archive TV on Vimeo.
I’ve been working with Cassie Leedham and Chris Garrett on the launch of a great new TV production company specialising in historical crime drama-documentaries based on true stories from newspaper and library archives.
Appropriately, it’s called Archive TV, and it’s headed up by Sharon Holloway.
The site is now online, [...]