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Tag Archives: media
How Not To Make Friends On Twitter
Image: Telegraph.co.uk I’ve started using a service to monitor who follows and unfollows me on Twitter. Through registering with TwitQuit, I’ve been able to highlight some interesting activity that I wouldn’t otherwise have been aware of. As you might expect, … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Politics, Scotland, Sport, Writing
Tagged 6 Nations, Calcutta Cup, debate, discussion, England, Fiction, Football, Internet, media, Murrayfield, poems, Poetry, rugby, Rugby Union, Scotland, Scottish Independence, Six Nations, social, TwitQuit, Twitter, Writing
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Launch Date Announced
Image: HimHo I could hardly keep my eyes open at the day job yesterday. I was so tired I just wanted to do my work quietly and without interruption. Unfortunately, my position doesn’t entail that to be possible so I … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Day Job, eBooks, Edinburgh, Fiction, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Video, Websites, Writing
Tagged Amazon, chapbooks, coffee shop, eBooks, Edinburgh, grumpy, insomnia, Kindle, launch day, Leith, Lulu, Mac, media, pen name, poems, Poetry, Portobello, pseudonym, Sleep, Video, web development, Website, YouTube
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Day 11 at the Edinburgh Book Festival
Image: EdBookFest A full day at the Edinburgh Book Festival yesterday, but thanks to the late-night writing session the evening before, I slept in slightly and never arrived until shortly before 11am. On arriving, I collected my tickets from the … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Book Festival, Poetry, Writing
Tagged BBC, bloggers, Blogging, Book Festival, Books, Charlotte Square, City of Literature, Coffee, Costa, crime fiction, Czeslaw Milosz, Don Paterson, EdBookFest, Edinburgh Book Festival, Edinburgh: City & Festivals, Esther Freud, Freudian, Ian Rankin, Kirsty Wark, Linda Grant, Lucian Freud, media, Newsnight, Orange Prize, podcasting, Poetry, Poland, Press Pod, Reading, Rebus, Robyn Marsack, Scottish Poetry Library, Shakespeare, Sigmund Freud, The Guardian, The Review Show, writers
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Media and Marketing
Image: Diffusibility Friday is here thank goodness and it feels like it’s been a heck of a long week. The day job is responsible for these feelings of dragged out days, but outwith these shifts I’m making good progress on … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Day Job, Edinburgh, Family, I.T., Poetry, Publishing and Marketing, Video, Writing
Tagged Blogging, book jacket, Books, British Museum, chapbooks, cruise boat, Day Job, eBooks, Family, Friday Vid, front cover, intro music, London, marketing plan, media, media and marketing, newsletter, parents, podcasts, poems, Poetry, Poolside Poetry, Sprearmint Rhino, Thames, The Patter, Video
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My Dad Is 70
Image: Diffusibility My father is 70 years old today. 70. David Currie Galbraith is officially a 70 year old man. I emphasise this for the sake of my poor mother, as it is she more than anyone else in the … Continue reading
Posted in Books, eBooks, Edinburgh, Family, Poetry, Writing
Tagged 70, birthday, chapbook, Charlotte Square, dad, daily blogging, eBooks, Edinburgh Book Festival, Edinburgh: City & Festivals, Facebook updates, father, Fringe Fantastic, iBooks, image gallery, live tweeting, marketing, media, podcasts, poems, Poetry, POOLSIDE POETRY 2, tweeting, Writing, YouTube
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A Media Frenzy And The Nation Watched
Image: Metro A day of two fascinating halves. On the one one hand I had the day job, which was busy and thick with challenge, and on the other was the live coverage of the stand-off between the police and … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Edinburgh, Editorial Comment, Film & TV, Poetry, Writing
Tagged 24-hour news, clothes, Day Job, fugitive gunman, GDR's, media, poems, Poetry, Raoul Moat, Shopping, television, TV journalism, Writing
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Observer Trouble
Image: Orhan Tsolak I can’t believe the rumours that the Observer might be going to shut its doors. I first picked up the scent of this from David Mitchell via Twitter, and it seems to have some substance to it. … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Day Job, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Publishing and Marketing, Reading, Writing
Tagged Animals, baby sitting, dogs, Fleet Street, journalism, journalists, media, newspaper, Observer, print, Reading, Swine Flu, the press, Writing
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The Promo Merry-Go-Round
Image: Hitchster When I typed the words, “I have a book coming out this week” in yesterday’s blog post, something happened inside me – I got my first blast of nerves. It’s gone away now that the promo merry-go-round has … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Edinburgh, Fiction, I.T., Photography, Publishing and Marketing
Tagged blog tour, book marketing, computers, friends, GDR, I.T., media, Netbook, photographer, Photography, press, promotion, Samsung NC10, Stella, writers
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Blackout
Image: Aussie Gall We had 7 inches of snow forecast last night. When I started coming round from my slumber I was shivering, so naturally assumed that snow had indeed fallen. Had it heck. The fuse that handles our heating … Continue reading
Posted in Editorial Comment, Fiction, Freelance, Glasgow, Publishing and Marketing, Scotland, Writing
Tagged blackout, electricity, Evening Times, Fiction, Freelance, freezing, journalists, lecky, media, newspaper, NUJ, perss, power, power cut, snow, Sunday Herald, The Herald, Weather, Writing
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The Daily Mail and Amanda Knox
Image: Media Bistro The Daily Mail The now widely reported error of judgment by the Daily Mail, when it wrongly published that Amanda Knox had been found guilty by an Italian appeals court, has already fallen into the stuff of … Continue reading →