Author: Matthew Cashmore

I sometimes take a moment to post here about crazy, funny or just outright stupid adverts and PR stunts I see. This time, I’m posting one of the best I have ever come across. Let this video download in full before you press play, make sure you have your sound on and then watch it…

Last week I posted a short note on the cost of travelling into London from Buckinghamshire via public transport vs the motorbike. The difference was startling, I was expecting public transport to be more expensive, but was hoping to be able to dismiss the difference easily, and argue that the time spent on the train…

I’ve given public transport a real go, and it’s all perfectly acceptable. I sit on a clean train that takes just over 35 minutes to get me from darkest Buckinghamshire to deepest London – well Marylebone – and another 30 minutes on the bus over to Old Street. I take a taxi home in the…

As most of you know I’ve been living in Melbourne out here in Oz for about 14 months now. It’s been a blast – working for a pretty funky company that’s allowed me to explore new ideas and ‘do cool stuff’ as well as discovering a pretty funky country. Australia has been good to me…

Well that’s done. Mr Thompson (Director General BBC) and Mr Smith (Chief Executive BBC Worldwide) have left the building. They spent today here at LP Towers out in Footscray. Once I got over the picture of the two of the most influential and powerful people in world media in Footscray it was good to see…

This weekend sees the start of a few small runs out of Melbourne – a little further afield than I’ve managed before – and with any luck they’ll contain as much excitement as the full-on trip would have done. The big outback trip looks as though it wont happen – news on why at a…