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[Reading #8] Discounting, data stories and long journalism

May 1, 2011

1. Discounting So discounting is what retailers do – at Christmas, to seize the momentum of buying ahead of Christmas, and, in June, to get cash rather than debts on the books ahead of the end of financial year. But it’s something we all do. Think about the choice between watching TV or doing exercise. [...]

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Think you can make a phone app one weekend and storm the appstore the next?

February 13, 2011
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Think you can make a phone app one weekend and storm the appstore the next? Hear the backstory from the three guys behind Flare Scratch.

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The world according to Andrew Ramadge, or how he made that online novella about Gareth Liddiard from The Drones

February 8, 2011
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In October, 2010, a news post went up on Mess + Noise about a different kind of music interview. I’m a music fan and a writer, but most writing about music follows a pretty straight format. And with the changes in the music industry, and the media, the music media has been hit hardest. It was a great piece, and I found myself wondering how the story came together.

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Scratch flair with Async’s Luke Dubber

December 7, 2010

Last year, Luke Dubber got a call. He was on tour with his band Hermitude, and a programmer friend Gordon Childs had an idea for a scratch DJ iPhone app. With illustrator Eddie Dolan, they quickly sketched out their first app Flare Scratch. It’s been a meteoric rise – and one that’s stepped up since [...]

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