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Sunday, May 06, 2012

THE ART OF CAMPING AND WHAT TO EAT?

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  Its always a pleasure to have the opportunity to review books by friends and colleagues, particularly when they are as good as these – eng...
Sunday, April 22, 2012

THE TOP TOPHAM/JOHN IDAN BAND: THE YARDBIRDS AND BEYOND

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  As regular readers of The Generalist will know I am a semi-pro music promoter in my spare time and was very fortunate to be able to pu...
Wednesday, April 11, 2012

THE BEAST IS BACK

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         An echo from the past. More than 30 years – in mid-1979 to be exact – myself and my colleagues Mike Marten and Mikki Rain launche...
Monday, April 09, 2012

JM ARCHIVE: THE DIGITAL REVOLUTION

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(Left); Original Wired   magazine postcard (c.mid 1990s) This is a short intro to the biggest string of posts THE GENERALIST has ever p...

JM ARCHIVE: COMPUTER GRAPHICS BOOK: A NEW PICTURE OF REALITY

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  Cover design by Richard Adams (ADCO). Image by David Zeltzer/Ohio State University. T his is a book I produced in 1984/1985 for the Br...

JM ARCHIVE: WILLIAM GIBSON (1990/1993)

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Having swallowed whole the concept of cyberspace and eaten up the novels and short stories of William Gibson in the 1980s – Burning Chro...

JM ARCHIVE: ELECTRONIC ESQUIRE (DECEMBER 1993)

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I took the idea of doing a supplement on the digital revolution to Esquire, then being edited by Rosie Boycott. She put Michael Watts ...

JM ARCHIVE: PETER GABRIEL CD-ROM (DEC 1993)

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The revenge of the talking head ‘CD-Rom: one day all records will be made this way. And Peter Gabriel is already off the mark with Xplo...

JM ARCHIVE: COMPUTER CHESS: MEETING GARRY KASPAROV (23rd May 1994)

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In 1994, I was commissioned by The Telegraph to interview Garry Kasparov , the greatest chess player of all time. I was interested in th...

JM ARCHIVE: THE DIGITAL REVOLUTION (3rd September 1994)

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This is certainly the longest piece of journalism I have ever had published in a major newspaper and is also one of the most important...

JM ARCHIVE: DIGITAL JOURNALISM (1995)

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ONLY CONNECT ‘John May, author and cyber-communication specialist for the Telegraph , introduces our Networks issue with the social ...