lojoco
lojoco is the company I run with John (Louisa and John’s Company).
After a strong start, lojoco has scaled back in the last two years after John co-founded Brightbox but we still consider it to be the parent company of all our business projects – our websites and our various bits of consultancy when we do it.
Our main sites
- Recycle This and Compost This
Our current flagship site (How Can I) Recycle This? aims to help people reuse and recycle random household objects in useful and creative ways. It’s had regular press coverage in The Times’ Eco Worrier column (so much so, Anna used to make fun of herself for linking to us so often) and has also been mentioned in other national newspapers including The Guardian and The Daily Telegraph. Internationally, we’re (unsurprisingly) popular on the green website circuit and increasingly in DIY craft community. - In the summer of 2006, Recycle This spawned sister site Compost This, which provides advice on material that can – and can’t – be composted. We hope to add another site to the *This green stable soon (but have, admittedly, been saying that for a while now).
- The Really Good Life
Building on a lot of the *This ideas and my own hippy interests, The Really Good Life blog was started in June 2010. It’s about living a good life – eating good food, having nice things – but without spending a lot of money or being wasteful. - Fametastic
Long-standing celebrity news/gossip blog Fametastic is updated daily, throughout the day. It covers news from both sides of the Atlantic and beyond, and is regularly linked from high profile news sources including the Washington Post (United States), AOL’s TMZ (United States), USA Today (United States), Perez Hilton (United States), Huffington Post (United States), BBC America (United States), Daily Rotten (United States), ABC (Australia) and The Age (Australia).
Other projects
- Everybody Loves Eric Raymond
I helped write the incredibly geeky web comic Everybody Loves Eric Raymond with John (and others). It’s currently in an unofficial hiatus while John concentrates on other things but we’ll bring it back when we can commit to a good run of it again. - Ukepedia
Ukepedia is our fun new project in which we invited people to sing the text of Wikipedia articles while strumming a pretty tune on the ukelele. Yes, it’s silly but also creates some strangely beautiful songs. - New World Odour
I have written satire for New World Odour in the past (and will again in the future if we kick some life back into it). - Encore
I have recently finished writing my first novel, tentatively titled Encore. I’m currently looking for a literary agent, going over it with a fine-tooth comb for the nth time and working on the currently title-less follow-up. Fingers crossed re: that, eh?