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Who am I? And why might you be interested in my bits? I've written a book about the Tube called One Stop Short of Barking - Uncovering the London Underground.

I've had other bits & pieces published online.

I work for Great British Chefs as Head of Social Media.

You can find out where I've worked in the past on LinkedIn I'm also on Google+ here

Some of the photos I've taken are on Flickr

Some of the music that rocks my world is at last.fm

I have other places where I have secret links but funnily enough, they're secret.

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Bloggers don’t like the way Associated Press is policing its copyright, but news wires are right to object to wholesale theft

the troubling part of the AP’s logic is that bloggers aren’t the enemy. They have the power to help the wires win this credibility battle. A referral from an influential blogger can be a traffic bonanza for a news wire and its news clients. And, more importantly, a few well-crafted words from a blogger can succeed in elevating the brand name of AP or Reuters (or now Thomson Reuters) into the everyday news discussion that happens on vibrant news forums such as Drudge Retort. The mainstream press would never allow the news wire to get top billing.

— Copyright: AP gets tough and bloggers get angry - Times Online