lojoco
lojoco is the company I run with John (Louisa and John's Company). We consider it to be the parent company of all our business projects - our websites and our various bits of consultancy work.
- Fametastic
Our flagship website is celebrity gossip portal Fametastic. Updated daily, throughout the day, Fametastic is a leading celebrity gossip blog in the UK. 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).
- Recycle This and Compost This
We run another blog-based site (How Can I) Recycle This?. 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. I'm currently putting together a compellation book based on the site, which will hopefully be published next year. - 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).
- Things To Do Today
At the start of January 2009, we launched our latest site, a step-sister site to Recycle This and Compost This: Things To Do Today. Updated daily, Monday to Friday, Things To Do Today is intended to be the lefty, crafty equivalent of all those "buy this gadget! look at this guy getting hit in the balls!" sites: every day, we feature two-four interesting things for people to do or make. These could be links yummy recipes, fun things to make, excellent articles to read or beautiful videos to watch - or just ideas, tips or reminders for things you could or should do. If you ever need a bit of inspiration for tea or for your next craft project, you might well find the answer on Things To Do Today.
- Other lojoco projects
lojoco also handles the merchandise (currently just tshirts and stickers) for the geeky webcomic Everybody Loves Eric Raymond (see below).We are also currently developing a number of other sites and side projects but so many ideas, so little time (especially since John also now runs the wonderful Rails-hosting ISP Brightbox).
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?