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This blog originally appeared on my newsletter, Future Proof. I would be very grateful if you’d subscribe to receive that weekly digital news bulletin. Even subscribing to the free version helps me out — and if you sign up for the paid edition, you are a true legend. Subscribe here! …

Every year for the last few years, I’ve called up a few podcaster chums and associates and asked them to nominate a podcast that has inspired them over the past 12 months. …

Forgive the title — it was either that or another recycled version of the Buggles headline everyone dreads. But every year, around this time, I do some form of “audit” of my year in podcasting. A look back on the year that’s been — its successes and its challenges —…

From the office of Nick Hilton (dictated but not read). Like everyone working at the cutting-edge of technology, I have been pressed of late for my opinions on Elon Musk, the new owner of the hallowed halls of Twitter. For the past few weeks, we — the people who spend…

This piece was first published earlier this week on my newsletter, Future Proof. As is the nature of writing about tech, some things may now be slightly out of date — subscribe to Future Proof in order to avoid waiting to read in the future! Are you bored of me…

When I received my blue tick on Twitter a few years ago, people I knew in the real world were incredulous. …

This piece first appeared in my newsletter, Future Proof: please subscribe to get a first look at media futurology and support my writing! November is upon us. The nights are long, and arriving early. Drizzling rain is turned to driving rain. The World Cup is just a few weeks away…

Full transparency: I have a podcast to promote. It’s called Other Edens and it’s a journey through the dark, mysterious and strange corners of Britain. From hauntings to ancient rituals, religious movements to military interventions, it will cover this ground with a sense of historical wonder. I hope you enjoy…