I'm Jeremy Ettinghausen (or jeremyet), a writer and strategist.
I've been using the internet to tell stories since I worked at Penguin Books in the waybackwhen times, when it was all fun and games.
More recently I've been writing about the weird things that happen when people interact with emerging technologies.


Can I be just a little bit pregnant?

Looking through my previous post, it feels like significant progress has been made in internetting better. After all, I'm typing this into an indy blogging platform, in an open source browser, using linux on a refurbished Thinkpad. We've come a long way, baby. But there are some services/habits that I just can't seem to...
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Stuff's been happening!

It's been nearly six months since I bought this very clever domain name and set up this website and nearly six months since I posted to it. Real life, in the form of some actual paid copywriting work, has got in the way. But behind the scenes there has been a flurry of activity and a not inconsiderable amount of...
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How to Stream Music Better

Just before Christmas I decided to organise my Spotify library to enable me to quickly find music for the whole family to enjoy to on the long drive to France. Strangely my wife doesn't approve of me scrolling on my phone on the autoroute, looking for that Fatboy Slim album we all loved a few summers ago. Two hours and...
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You too can enjoy a thick, shiny coat!

Look, I'm not doing this because you are doing the internet wrong. I'm doing it because I'm doing it wrong. Or at least I'm not internetting in a way that makes me happy or leads me to think that any net positive is resulting from all my browsing and scrolling. This, then, is the last chance saloon for my failing...
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