The Guardian: My main outlet. Editorial
associate, columnist and podcaster for the newspaper's
'Business Sense' section, formerly Business Solutions,
until its demise in May 2007. More recently I've been
writing for the job section and indeed the music section
(cutting from 15 Feb 08):
"In
the 1950s and 60s, the likes of Bernard Hermann and John
Barry emerged as serious composers for their work in the
movies, and you could buy a favourite film soundtrack on
long-playing record, including suites of incidental music.
It was a measure of how writing film scores was being
appreciated as a genre in its own right, by both movie
makers and audiences - and evidence of the vital role
scores could play in films.
Computer game music might not have reached the same level
quite yet, but soundtracks are now starting to get separate
releases. Not only that, but composers with established
reputations are starting to write them. Take Heavenly
Sword, a game for Sony's Playstation 3; rather than opting
for stock music, the game's creators brought in the
award-winning musician and composer Nitin Sawhney; instead
of suggesting he knock something out cheaply on a computer,
he was encouraged to use orchestras in London and Prague."
To read the rest of this article, click
here
A piece which made the cover story for the Business Sense
section appears here while a piece from the
Technology section is here.
The
Independent: From February 2007,
contributions to the small business section - for a
sample click
here.
The
Financial Times: Contributor during 2003
to the Inside Track section; more recently contributor to
the Business Life section:
"Securing
funding from venture capitalists is tricky enough for
entrepreneurs, but winning financial backing of £9m when
your product is not yet available and when projections of
demand are based on a new concept in a new market is more
difficult still. Yet Martin Goswami and Chris Griffin of
Aggregator have done just that.
The venture aims to deliver niche television channels to
subscribers over the internet, and eventually to
broadband-enabled televisions. The first minority community
to be targeted is the UK’s Russian population with
Moe TV (My TV), launched on Wednesday."
The
remainder of this article is no longer available online.
Sunday
Times:
Have
you ever wondered why, if you are constantly connected to
broadband, you need a landline connection to speak to a
friend or colleague? Making phone calls over the internet
is cheap and should be easy, but most people until now have
preferred the convenience of a conventional phone. What has
put people off making Voip (voice over internet protocol)
calls is that it meant fiddling with a computer or wearing
a headset. Today, though, using the internet to make
telephone calls without your computer switched on is
straightforward.
Click here
to read
on
The
Times:
Here’s
a book title that will bring joy to parents and children
engaged in daily battles over computer time: Don’t
Bother Me Mom – I’m Learning. Its premise, put
forward by Marc Prensky, an American software developer, is
that children who play computer games have distinct
advantages over those who don’t, even when the
content of the games is violent.
This is not a popular theory. Most parents feel compelled
to limit computer time given the consensus that too many
hours in front of a screen is bad for development, learning
and general sociability...
Click
here
to read
on
The Mail
on Sunday: Contributions to
Financial Mail on Sunday starting in July 2006, not
available online.
The
Scotsman:
"HSBC has set its sights on the
lucrative business account market north of the Border, and
is planning an immediate launch of its free BusinessDirect
branchless banking service aimed at small and medium-sized
enterprises.
The bank said it was responding to demand for free services
from a leading business bank and customers' reluctance to
pay for branch banking they do not use. The service is
already on offer in England and Wales but HSBC believes the
Scottish banks have historically faced limited competition
in their home market." Click here for the rest of the
article
The
Daily Mirror: Occasional
contributions to the "Mirror Works" section about
self-starters and business stories:
"WHEN Dalek maker Mike Tucker received
his Bafta nomination letter, he was gutted.
It's not that he's got anything against being honoured for
his TV model-making work, it's that in the same post he
received his redundancy notice from the BBC.
But at least he could prove he was good at his job - which
helped him make the decision to set up his own effects
business." Click here to read on.
The
Observer: I write not
infrequently for the Cash section of the business pages:
"By now,
consumers are more aware than ever of issues surrounding
the impact their goods and services have on the planet. The
problem, so often, is the cost; you want to do the 'right
thing' but you believe it's not affordable.
This is the sort of preconception that drives the green
lobby to distraction. They believe that you can make a lot
of small changes to your life that a) won't take much
effort if any, b) will have a positive impact on the
environment and c) will save you some money."
Click here to read on.
Evening
Standard: Regular contributor to the
'Enterprise for London' section during its run from
2001-2002; contributed to the Just the Job section prior to
its revamp.
Daily
Express: Occasional contributions
to the 'Switched On' section until its demise a couple of
years back.
Esquire:
Occasional business pieces
ComputerActive:
One of the
UK's best-selling computing titles, occasional
contributions in the past and delighted to be returning
now.
Other publications in which you may have seen my name over
the years include the Daily Telegraph, The Radio Times,
particularly covering the Christopher Eccleston season of
Doctor Who (I co-wrote the new season supplement as well as
writing the piece on how they blew up Big Ben), Q, Punch,
Director, Management Today, actually quite a lot now that I
think about it.
I have also acted as
editorial consultant and writer to the Institute of
Directors and the Department of Trade and Industry under
the auspices of its UK Online for Business
initiative.