The New Age Of Curation

The MIDI Tiki Show: a new YouTube channel for your pleasure

So here’s an announcement – I’ve started a new YouTube channel, called ‘The MIDI Tiki Show’, that showcases high quality hardware-played MIDI files in a tiki room setting. Uh… wha? Why? Maybe I’d better explain… The Inspiration This all started when I checked out the excellent YouTube channel Techmoan‘s video on ‘the floppy disk boombox’, which …

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Longread: The ‘lost’ Alan Moore interview (The Telegraph Wire, 1985)

[Poking around at a Bay Area antiques fair, I came across a copy of local comic book store zine Telegraph Wire. And in it, there’s a great longform Wendi Lee interview from SDCC 1985 with Alan Moore, who was known for his Swamp Thing work & V For Vendetta at the time, and in the process …

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Preserving digital music – why Netlabel Archive matters.

It’s fascinating that the early Internet era (digital) data can sometimes be trickier to preserve & access than pre-Internet (analog) data. A prime example is the amazing work of the Netlabel Archive, which I wanted to both laud and highlight as ‘digital archiving done right’. Created in 2016 by the amazing Zach Bridier, the Netlabel …

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Monotonik: the re-distribution (& musings on platforms)

[EDIT: Just so you’re aware, the Netlabel Archive crew ended up swooping in and putting ALL Mono/Monotonik releases onto YouTube and the Internet Archive – amazing work! So I didn’t have to do it all myself!] So, firstly, the announcement – if you haven’t spotted it already on my social media feeds. I’ve just kicked …

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How To Not Have Horrible Conference Sessions, Hopefully?

[Through our company’s London office, I was asked by the Chartered Institute Of Marketing to write something on how events might pick good speakers for events. An edited version – because I got a bit overenthusiastic with word count – is available now on CIM’s website – and here’s the full version I originally wrote, …

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Why game discovery is vital – introducing Games We Care About.

Every few months, I get an urge to try something new as a side project, related to a problem. This time – though I make no claims it will FIX EVERYTHING – it’s intended to address this simple issue: “I like playing video games, but there are so many damn video games nowadays. How do …

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Video Game Storybundle 2.0 – the return of the words!

Back in May, I teamed up with Jason Chen at Storybundle to curate the first Video Game Storybundle – a veritable cornucopia of great DRM-free video game eBooks, from Ralph Baer to Jordan Mechner and beyond – and it was a hit. Now, six months and much curating later, I’m extremely delighted to announce Video …

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