Paul Miller

The way we read and absorb information has changed dramatically over the past decade and I’ve been wondering for the past few days whether the ideal style of writing has changed too. Ten years ago I was still reading a daily newspaper in print format. While the newspapers and big media organisations had websites, they [...]

Poet geniuses Luke Wright and Joel Stickly have a new website called whowritesthiscrap.com. Think of it as a campaign to rid the world of bad writing crossed with a brilliant comedy show. One to watch. It will make you shudder and giggle in equal measure.

Jon Ronson had a great little piece in the Guardian Weekend yesterday that illustrates in just a few hundred words what’s changed and stayed the same about journalism in the last couple of decades. Them is one of my favourite non-fiction books – way ahead of its time in terms of the characters Jon chose [...]

Wired have a lovely little piece where they asked writers to come up with six word short stories. My favourite has to be this one: Machine. Unexpectedly, I’d invented a time – Alan Moore

“The process of moving from the specific to the general is both necessary and perilous… How do we know when we’ve made the right generalization?” So writes Malcolm Gladwell in a now widely cited piece about profiling for the New Yorker. He’s challenging the idea that all pitbulls are dangerous, all asian people with beards [...]