Final report for my GFTW ambassadorship!
Wrote this up and published it today. Go give it a read and give me some feedback!
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Crypto Terror
It seems inevitable that giving groups of very techno-savvy people powerful new cryptographic tools, opportunities to make generational wealth, autonomously and anonymously self-organise and assert economic influence will lead to the bad bits of humans rearing their ugly heads too.…
Press for Word 2021 – WordPress & AI
I was honoured to be invited to speak at Press for Word 2021 in Tel Aviv, Israel. The organisers have kindly uploaded my talk to YouTube if you’d like to check it out!
The clown in the mirror
I heard an analogy on a podcast (frustratingly I can’t find it now) about how Trump appeared to be a clown, and people laughed at him. But when the people looked at him again, he held up a mirror, and…
web3 – What do brands and agencies need to know?
This was an event for BIMA where I co-chair the blockchain council with Paula Pettit: BIMA Blockchain Breakfast Briefing: Web3 changes the rules, breaking away from traditional centralized models of the internet and moving towards a world where communities…
GoDaddy Pro EMEA Meetup – Web Industry after the Shift from Web 2.0 to Web 3.0
Had the great pleasure in participating in this discussion around web3 and its potential impact on the current web and WordPress!
Web Monetization for WordPress
I’m an ambassador for Grant for the Web for the WordPress ecosystem. As part of my work there, I’ve created a content series about how to use Web Monetization on WordPress sites. I hope you enjoy it!
Of Apes and Wapuus
A guest post for the Web3 WP project: There’s a lot of talk at the moment of NFTs – Non Fungible Tokens. NFTs are a crypto or web3 technology that can be thought of as a “primitive”. A primitive in…
A crypto & web3 primer
I originally wrote this for a friend who was looking to get some exposure to this asset class but since then others have asked for it so I thought I’d share a modified version publically. First: DYOR – Do Your…
Blockchain tech trends that will disrupt WordPress: Part II
This is the final installment in a series of articles concerning the intersection of blockchain and WordPress. (You can check out the first article here, the second article here and the third article here.) In Part I of Blockchain Tech Trends (available here), I looked…
How digital wallets, cryptocurrency & DeFi will disrupt WordPress
This is the third in a series of articles about the intersection of blockchain and WordPress. (You can check out the first article here and the second article here.) In this article I’ll take a closer look at the impact of two blockchain-specific…
WordPress + Blockchain = Disruption + Opportunity
I’ve worked with WordPress for 14 years (I’m now CMO at Angry Creative) at this point so I inevitably look at blockchain and blockchain-inspired projects from that perspective: that of the open web. In this 3-part series I’ll cover some of…