Thoughts

Five rules on how not to write a biography 23 Oct 2019 I don’t have decades of experience as a particular kind of biographer. I’ve written two biographies about rock bands,

A well-meaning, harmless drudge... … was how the Oxford Dictionary of Computing defined a systems administrator. Or at least it did in the second-hand copy of the first edition, which I owned

How to be smart in a post-truth world 16 Nov 2016 What the heck just happened? Events over recent months in the UK and USA, two nations divided by a common language,

On "monetisation of data" and other phrases that should be banned 04 Nov 2016 I’ve been thinking a lot about monetisation of data. Horrible word I know, but it keeps

My first ever information management strategy. 28 Oct 2016 I have to admit I was quite excited to have been asked. After all, it was about a topic that sounded very grand, and