I’m trying to become more of a record keeper. I’m normally terrible at writing things down and keeping a track of things that have now passed. I prefer to look forward rather than back. However, I’ve decided that’s no excuse for poor record keeping so I’m going to try and change that. Starting with an [...]

Today I made my second appearance on BBC Radio 4′s ‘Woman’s Hour’ radio show. The topic was related to the recent book ‘Dogs in Vogue’ which is, as it happens, a very nice book – amazing shots (as you’d expect) and in my opinion didn’t portray dogs as fashion accessories at all.

For some former print titles, the switch to digital edition is a step into the unknown, is not always done for the right reasons, and is done with little imagination. For K9 Magazine, a print title from an overwhelmingly digital stable, it was like coming home. Ryan O’Meara explains why they ditched their flagship print [...]

Today’s media has been two dog items for BBC Three Counties (always a pleasure) and 4FM, an Irish-based station which described itself to me as a ‘the offspring of what would happen if Jeremy Vine and Chris Evans had a baby’. The Three Counties piece was an item on the importance and value of socialisation [...]

News International? Time Warner? Nope. Neither. It’s………… ……JP Morgan Chase! Knock me down with a feather. I would have never have got that question right in a pub quiz. But it’s true. Just heard it on Bloomberg. What next? Am I going to find out that the largest manufacturer of running shoes is not Nike [...]

1) Give it a deliberately provocative name – check. 2) Position it with hot women showing much flesh – check. 3) Make it much bigger/stronger/faster than predeccors – check. 4) Wait for Mr Outraged from Hemel Hempstead to do the rest of your job for you – checkmate. AN energy drink called Simply Cocaine was [...]

The first business book I would like to mention as being truly inspirational is called “Ready, Fire, Aim” and is written by Michael Masterson. The reason I particularly liked this book is because its key, central message is something I could relate to in myself and is something I can see – all too often [...]

Independent Digital Media is a new company I’m involved with – and by involved with – I actually AM the company! It’s a full service new media consultancy. Which sounds quite buzwordy, which I don’t like, so I have made sure that what the company does can be explained in simple, plain English: We come [...]

OK, so a few people have asked me about the background to why Stan Rawlinson has published various unhinged rants about K9 Magazine and me in particular, so I thought I’d set the record straight on that front myself with some facts: 1) Stan Rawlinson approached K9 Magazine to write for us. He wanted to [...]

I am, shall we say, a careful purchaser of goods and services. I spend a lot of time researching the stuff I buy. A LOT of time. I want to be right. I HATE to waste my hard earned cash on rubbish. Not only that, I want to buy stuff that actually does what I [...]