From 2000–2011, I worked for Supporters Direct, the last three as Chief Executive. I’ve not commented about the events around my departure, but some months ago, I was asked to write a contribution to a new book by AFC Wimbledon fan Niall Couper on the last 10…

This applescript integrates between Apple Mail, The Hit List and MailTags.

• It creates a task from the selected messages (one task per message)
• If MailTags has already appended a project to it which matches a…

I’ve just read Andrew Blum’s fantastic Tubes, about the physical infrastructure of the internet. I’ve long been interested in the subject, after reading Neal Stephenson’s seminal Mother Earth, Mother Board in Wired years back. I think it’s the fragility of the internet that they reveal, and whilst…

I’ve just done a piece on how the BBC could become the British Broadcasting Co-operative, and why it should, as part of OpenDemocracy’s Our Beeb series. It draws on the references I make in my pamphlet on media ownership to the BBC.

Before starting to use The Hit List, I used to use Things, which had a really neat little related app called Things Folders. This mirrored the structure and set of your tasks and created a folder for…

David Lampitt’s appointment as the new Chief Executive of Supporters Direct has attracted some adverse comment, well summarised in a piece over at When Saturday Comes. David has responded to the criticism in a piece on Supporters Direct’s site.

I’ve just read the FA’s ‘statement’ in response to the Hillsborough Panel’s report.

I’m still trying to work out whether it’s an artless piece of insensitive nonsense, or a litigation-avoiding non-statement. Either way, it stinks.