Picture by Tukanuk

Been a crazy few weeks on the road promoting the book – hence the neglecting of the blog. The beginning of the month saw the UK launch, spent a hectic ten days in London, but we got some incredible coverage. As well as making The Guide’s front cover, the following weekend The Guardian picked Pirate’s as book of the week. It was also featured in The Independent, thelondonpaper, The Telegraph, Vice, Dazed & Confused, and I was at the BBC doing various radio interviews for what seemed like an entire week. As well some great press, I got the chance to speak at the RSA and the London School of Economics among other places, where I met and was introduced by the incredibly smart Mr Peter Jenner.

After that it was off to Surf Summit 11 in Mexico, by far one of the coolest events I’ve ever attended, check out TransWorld’s coverage here. I gave the closing keynote speech on day one, but more importantly, I learned to surf, and have been checking out real estate in Southern California ever since. Then it was on to Chicago for the Illinois Institute of Tehnology design conference, which was really interesting – met some really cool people including former director of Xerox Parc John Seely Brown. Unfortunately I had to skip Mesh08 in Toronto because of a problem with my green card which meant I had to return to the states to get everything ironed out, which was really frustrating, but thankfully is now sorted.

Over here in the states and around the world the press is still coming in thick and fast. Pirate’s got a great review on ArsTechnica (who were recently bought by Conde Nast, and should be bookmarked immediately if you’re not familiar with them). I was also interviewed by The Toronto Star, La Repubblica in Italy, Folha de S. Paulo in Brazil, and some journalists in other countries too, but it’s all a bit of a blur. So what I’m trying to say is, I’m sorry I haven’t been keeping things moving over here, but I’m back on the ground in NYC and the slackness ends today.