Google knows all about you. Yeah right, you know this, but do you know how much? It knows how many times you’ve been rick-rolled (YouTube), it knows that you have an unhealthy obsession with Gogol (Google Books), that you spend your working day flicking between 4Chan and textsfromlastnight (Chrome) and that you don’t read any [...]
I am a libertarian. There. I said it. Now we all know. So why the attention-seeking blog post? Well. It appears that not everyone is a big fan of my new found political leaning. Most of my friends and colleagues are Labour or Tory. I am neither. As both are (almost) identical (in my eyes) [...]
Some of you may not know this, but I (yes, Jed the non-rock star) used to be on the old wireless. It’s a pretty short story, basically what happened was that I did a few shows then I got booted out for playing Iggy Pop – Raw Power at 6:30pm to a prime time audience. [...]
I was listening to radio four’s Today Programme (fancy, I know, but I don’t understand all the words) on my way into work this morning – which, incidentally, took two hours (thank you Mr Transport Minister for not funding back stocks salt and grit properly) – and they were talking about the Carol Thatcher debacle. [...]
I just thought I’d mention some of the updates that I’ve been making to my blog. First of all, if you’ve noticed any changes then you must have come back after your first visit – thank you! Secondly, I’ve made the changes to make the blog easier to navigate, less cloggy and give a bit [...]
I love reading these, but it’ll probably be a few years before I’m important enough to have my own in The Guardian’s Media Monday. So I thought I’d write one now and give you all an exclusive for the future… Newspapers Obviously my daily consumption of newspapers is pretty heavy because of monitoring and clipping, [...]
It’s officially my last day in work, drinking my last coffee and writing my last ‘from work’ post. I feel quite odd (and incidentally, old). The last few days have been spent explaining what I actually do to make headlines and boost bottom lines and handing over current and potential leads to our MD so [...]