Author Archives: Hugh

Children’s books in digital era

Publishing and digital are finally coming together. I also believe that free is the way forward - and that advertisers will start to look at buying slots in digital books. From Bologna.

Podango

The future of Podango, a podcasting-start-up, is in doubt

Blind Users

I’m sitting in cafe or British Library, working on coding up Sophie’s fab new design for Storynory. I was just interrupted by a Skype user I did not know. I was a bit suspicious at first, but then delighted to find that I was chatting to a Storynory listener - born in [...]

Storynory in Korea

Storynory has been written up in one of Korea’s leading national daily newspapers.

Storynory in Afghanistan

A while ago I was contacted by Noorjahan from Afghanistan. He asked me for permission to translate and publish Storynory’s version of the Golden Goose in the Dari language.

Twitter killed the blog star?

Blogging is not dead - but it’s true that Twitter has taken over some of the functions of blogging, including the trivia and the bilge.

Book Covers from Flickr

A book with a cover picture found on Flickr

Storynory: Newcastle to Hyderabad

Storynory has just been to Newcastle University to take part in a graduate seminar on entrepreneurs and education. Our audio stories are now being played to kids in private schools in india.

Edna Fernandes

Edna Fernandes is a journalist who has published two well-received books on India. Her website was beautiful but had low visibility in the search engines. She also wanted to be able to update it without going back to her designer.

Social Media Works…

A couple of examples of how social media has been about more than just socialising for me.

What’s up

If you are one of our loyal band of followers on RSS, you might be wondering why the sudden flurry of activity.