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Though I said in my post on the best songs of the Noughties that I was not going to try to include all of them, since I wrote I keep thinking of songs that really are too good to miss out. So, for what it’s worth, here’s Now, That’s What Ciarán Calls The Noughties, Vol. [...]

A few weeks back I spoke at the media140 event in London. Despite the fact that my voice nearly gave out at one point, saved only by the kind donation of a Strepsil by Gabrielle, it seemed to go well.
After I’d finished I got chatting to Ben Cohen, the tech correspondent at Channel 4 News [...]

Yes, yes, yes, another post about Twitter, I know. This one has a point at least. Well. Kind of.
A few weeks back I spoke at the 2nd of the excellent Media140 conferences, this one looking at the way that the real-time web is impacting brands. The guys at Media140 recorded my session on why & [...]

My rather shitty day was vastly improved by listening to Geoff Lloyd’s show (the best thing on Absolute Radio IMO) on my drive back from the station.
He was interviewing a man called Jonathan Coulton, who apparently used to be a web developer but now, as far as I can tell, makes his money by making [...]

Last Saturday I had a lovely meal at Gaucho Piccadilly: the steak was excellent, the wine delicious and the service exemplary. It was very different to how I’d imagined it - more like the bar of a boutique hotel, with lighting so low in the bathrooms it was almost impossible to see, than the typical [...]

So, when Absolute Radio announced their quest to find the best songs of the decade, I said that I found it hard to pick any. Well, I’ve changed my mind, thanks to some inter-office discussions (ending in this playlist) and listening to a lot of stuff from the last ten years. Like this.
And so, without [...]

Via Codegent comes this delightful visualisation of Hey Jude as a flow chart at love all this.

After that, it only seems right to leave you with song in question.

I’ve not written anything for a while, partly because it’s taking me ages to write my songs/albums of the year/decade posts.
But why I’m bothering I’m not really sure, as the only stories really worth telling this year have been the release of The Beatles Rock Band and AC/DC, another band who refuse to allow their [...]