How to be a Geek is the virtual holding cell for the content of new media journalist Ryan Morrison's brain and web habbits.



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How to be a Geek
March 1, 2010

I’m not just an insufurably grumpy geek, I’m not just the guy complaining about everything in the corner of the office – I’m also the annoying one passing on CDs of new music all the time and raving…

February 14, 2010
Banknote launch invite: 

Invite to the launch of the new Jersey bank notes
Banknote launch invite:

Invite to the launch of the new Jersey bank notes

February 13, 2010
What to do….

The domain for this Tumblog is howtobeageek.net and I’ve long held high hopes and ambitions for what do use it for - but that’s never actually come to anything so ideas welcome - please!

I get sent a lot of press releases and I ignore almost all of them. Especially the ones that send me a top ten list and talk of a new groundbreaking methodology behind their results.

But I couldn’t…

I wrote a blog post two weeks ago about SeeSaw, the new television on demand service – mainly for archive content.

This service, currently in a limited invite only beta, is born out of the…

10 of the current top 20 podcasts are from the BBC - nice to see History of the World and In Our Time in the top 20 though Top 2 are Radio 4

And more than a quarter of the top 200 podcasts (in the UK) are from the BBC.

Just had an e-mail from SeeSaw telling me they’ve not aquired the rights to operate in the islands. Which is nice. http://bit.ly/4dE04k

February 11, 2010

I’m not going to write a review of the Apple iPad, that would be completely pointless as the most I’ve seen of it is a couple of hands on videos and a few photos.

However, based on that and the…

How are there 40 thousand people on the Save BBC6music group on Facebook when the Station gets so few listeners? http://bit.ly/dzzuLB

I tried to write a sitcom about market traders once - two scenes in it was so awful I gave up. Still have it somewhere though.

Twenty Ten or Two Thousand and Ten? The Tens or The Teens?

Good on ABC for not caving in here but how long can a commercial network hold? http://bit.ly/aNm8ii God bless the BBC

Oooo Just had Buzz enabled in Gmail but um…. now what? #jerseyci #buzz

Also - why am I not getting a Google Buzz button in Gmail?