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Starting up: The £4k Startup 1 Jul 2013 | 08:51 pm
A version of this post first appeared on FastCoLabs entitled “How This Journalist-Turned-Coder Built His Startup For $6,000″ Over the last few months, I’ve been writing about my startup adventures. Fi...
Starting up: Chasing money 21 May 2013 | 04:44 pm
Three weeks ago I wrote my first post about starting up: a summary of my last year – leaving the Guardian, learning to code, and deciding to do a bizniz. I left you at the bit when I was about … Conti...
Starting up: An intro 29 Apr 2013 | 07:57 pm
Almost exactly a year ago, I decided to leave the Guardian. I didn’t really know what I was doing. I’d been travel writing for them (and others) since my final year of university and had moved in hous...
West Ham: a minority of morons must not define us 26 Nov 2012 | 06:16 pm
I was with the West Ham fans at Spurs yesterday. I’ve been a West Ham season ticket holder for 20 years, and was sitting with my 70-year old uncle, an East End Jew who has been going to West Ham … Con...
On journalists and developers 13 Jul 2012 | 08:33 pm
When I started out as a journalist seven years ago, I had no idea what a developer was – columnists and editors were the rock stars of the business, the computer guys were “the IT department” who coul...
Amen 1 Jun 2012 | 10:10 pm
Part 2 is listen to them RT @mathewi: RT @Poynter: Google News founder: News orgs must hire "restless agents of change" journ.us/N38nFZ— Robert Hernandez (@webjournalist) June 01, 2012
Calling London-based devs, designers, devigners, wizards 28 May 2012 | 10:40 pm
Image: Dottie Mae/Some rights reserved I’m lucky enough to know a handful of London-based developers and web designers, but nowhere near as many as I’d like to. I’m hoping to be working on a number of...
How to survive the nibblers 9 May 2012 | 02:08 am
Piranhas. Image: Chandra Marsono on Flickr/Some rights reserved Brilliant blog by Stijn Debrouwere on “the mess the news industry is in.” The thrust? Journalism is being eaten away by a sea of nibbl...
Internet, I love you but you’re bringing me down 8 May 2012 | 09:29 am
I’ve got a piece in tomorrow’s G2 on what happened when I did everything the internet told me for a day. In writing it, I came across lots of interesting/troubling articles on how the web is, well, tu...
Into the unknown…looking for squidgy bits 3 May 2012 | 01:16 am
After a very enjoyable period in-house at the Guardian, I’ve decided to re-enter the freelance realm. I’ve loved the writing… and have been a very lucky boy. My meanderings took me to nudist protest b...
