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Welcome to my personal website.
This is an antidote to all the online work I do about media, community, networking, marketing, business and so on.
Unlike those professional sites, my personal site is where I can swear (b*lls), make speling mistakes, and reveal things about myself (I ate a Guinea Pig once). Interestingly, I feel I can do all that and not harm my professional image. It’s got something to do with the fact that this is my own platform and not a social network profile.
I can dump a whole bunch of daft stuff here and feel good about it, while others purging their online presence, napalming their Facebook accounts, and sweeping friends’ profiles for photos they didn’t give persmission for. (There’s another thing I can do, end a sentence on preposition. Sweet!)
I love the internet, and I’
m a little bit jealous of the world’s digital natives – those of you born in 1985 onwards, for whom home computing and the World Wide Web are a normal part of life. I used to draw my own comics, make up little books, shoot film and video (when it was invented), write stories and plays, design magazines, and it all stayed in the family or among close friends.
Now, however, I can publish anything I want online. I’m competing with traditional publishers such as TV broadcasters/film studios/radio stations/book and magazine publishers/newspaper companies and so on. We’re all after viewers/readers/listeners – and the playing field has evened out because it costs me virtually nothing to put my content online.
So, that’s what this site is all about: satisfying my childish impulses to publish my creations. Sadly (or maybe thankfully) most of my early creative stuff has gone the way of my ‘Hong Kong Book of Kung Fu’, a daft little book of pictures, songs, rhymes and puzzles which I made when I was about 10 years old.
But there’s other stuff. And that’s what’s in here.
