The Stage, the print and online magazine covering every aspect of the arts and entertainment industry, chose to highlight Table Rappers – Persistent Spirit within their Turn off the TV special: Pick of the podcasts article. Ewan Spence, podcaster extraordinaire and producer/presenter of – amongst others – the annual Edinburgh Fringe Podcast (sponsored for the [...]
I have never been one for the endless stream of “sites that show me sites” – you know, BoingBoing, Digg, etc. But over the past week or two I have been warming considerably to Stumbleupon. The internet can be the biggest time-waster man has ever conceived. This can be a major problem for someone like [...]
One of the biggest blocks to creative writing is the word processor. “Hang on! Surely you aren’t suggesting we go back to the days of quill and parchment?” I hear you cry. No, not quite, but you’re along the right lines. Writing is re-writing. 10% inspiration, 90% perspiration. And I suspect there are more along [...]
I’m doing more and more writing these days. It’s not exactly daily yet, but it’s getting much closer and the notion of – after a big bunch of months – writing an entire novel is increasingly realistic. So, I’ve created another main category on the right, to accommodate the inevitable posts about my experiences. These [...]
FishDog, AngelSpoon, and Kirk are three characters which have been with me for a few months now. They grew organically out of some random text insertions after becoming bored with sensible content for my Skype mood message (a status message visible alongside my Skype name in contacts’ Skype windows). When Twitter came along, it seemed [...]
