Category Archives: Attention span

The Gentle Author of Spitalfields Life

By tim | Published: 02/02/2012

‘In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London.’ With these words the Spitalfields Life blog was born, back in August 2009.

Also posted in Authors, History, London, Reading, Storytelling, Tone of voice, Writing | Tagged a writer's life, blogging, blogs, communications, copy, culture, east london, justin knopp, letterpress, linkedin, london, narrative, random spectacular, spitalfields, spitalfields life, st jude's, the gentle author, tim rich, Tone of voice, typoretum, words, writers, Writing | 9 Comments

Random Spectacular

By tim | Published: 14/12/2011

Spitalfields Life is an important counter-argument to the ridiculous but common notion that people don’t like to read online.

Also posted in Authors, Design, London, Magazines, Photography, Reading, Writing | Tagged 26, attention span, blogs, design magazines, gentle author, linkedin, magazines, random spectacular, reading, reading online, spitalfields life, st jude's, tim rich, Writing, writing online | 8 Comments

Lots of visits today thanks to an interesting conversation taking place on Twitter about writing, reading, technology and attention span. The original article I wrote can be found here. It now has some further comments from others, including one today from Tom Albrighton. The new article that got me going this morning is here: Less Text, [...]