"Ask not for whom the web trolls, it trolls for thee"
Last week I took a bunch of college students back to school. After three hours of poker, I stood up and walked away with 70 of their softly-bludged euros. It was a rare, rare win. While I was busy fleecing them, we got talking about work, and the fact that I’m back freelancing again. The…
This was one of the hardest articles I ever chose to write. My mum had a short but intense battle with MS in her mid-forties, which she ultimately lost. I paired up with Damien Mulley, who had been diagnosed recently, to write about our experiences of the condition. It’s heavy. I wrote this six…
If I had a euro for every time someone watched my social media guru video…I’d have around €20,000 by lunchtime today. Which would be nice. Last Thursday I spent 30 minutes writing a script and building a little animation around it using a site called xtranormal.com. The vid took a swipe at the self-proclaimed social…
Adam Westbrook is two posts deep into his 6X6 series for journalists, six posts with six tips in each on a particular theme to help journalists kickstart their careers in a new multimedia environment. The first post, on branding yourself, carries some simple, universal rules that should apply to international entities as well as they…