“If the throw is right…” Juggling multiple projects
When, as a teenager, I came back from “exile” in Suffolk to live in London and rejoin my mum and family, my younger brother Justin was a mad juggler. His favourites were the…
All the books I read in 2010
Here’s a list of all the books I read, or re-read, last year (as usual, Amazon made an awful lot of money in 2010!). The ones that made the greatest impression were: Business Model…
Writing your own rules – why we need local definitions for Creative Industries
Hi Jay, Lovely to hear from you. Glad you like the piece. Your email got me thinking… One of my clients is an EU project called the CITIES Network (http://www.eucreativeindustries.eu/) where I work with…
School of Communication Arts – First week report
Last week was the first week of the “Two point Oh” iteration of The School of Communication Arts, where I’ve been lucky enough to be invited to become “Head of Ideapreneurship” * It’s an…
Visionary People’s Music Store shutting shop
I got the email pasted below yesterday from Ged Day, the founder of PeoplesMusicStore.com (and the brain behind Warp’s brilliant and seminal Bleep store). PeoplesMusicStore.com is (or now was) an online music retailer which…
Braga, Velha-a-Branca and the hippie rich list
Hi Luís Sorry about calling you a “hippie” when we met. It wasn’t meant as a bad thing – it was meant as a compliment! When we visited you seemed to care most…
10 tips for independent working in an uncertain mixed economy
Before I start, I want to clarify why I call myself “independent” and not freelance. I never really liked the term “freelance”. It seems to suggest a powerlessness with no agenda of ones…
networking
Hi Piroska, There are three I’d recommend: These for general tips about what you need to be a good networker: The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell (the ingredients you need to create social…
