Shiny welcomes Gary Cutlack of UK Resistance fame
Shiny has a shopping list of talented bloggers that one day we hope will join our team. So I am massively pleased to say that we have managed to tempt one of our top targets, Gary Cutlack of UK Resistance and Idiot Toys, to come on board. I could witter on about how he is a hugely funny writer and new media genius, but instead I'll let him do the talking. Over to you Gary.
Ashley
Hello new friends and existing internet enemies! I'm Gary. Shiny Media's just hired me to work on its games and gadgets blogs. This is pretty much my dream job, as even if I was unemployed I'd be sitting in front of a PC writing games and gadgets blogs all day for free. So lucky old me.
I used to work at Future Publishing on its games magazines. Before that I worked at Computec on its games magazines. And before that I worked at Emap on its games magazines. I've been around a bit. It's time for a change, frankly, and working on the web is much, much more exciting than the slow-moving, continental drift world of magazines.
Shiny Media's kicking arse in the blog world right now, and the opportunity to reach Shiny's millions of readers with my poorly-thought-out, one-sided opinions and sweeping generalisations is too good an opportunity to miss. The two existing sites I write - Idiot Toys and UK Resistance - have joined the Shiny network too, so I'll be able to blog HARDER, LONGER and about MORE STUFF than ever before.
I've already posted a few rambling messages over on Tech Digest and look forward to keeping you full of news, gossip and the occasional outright lie when nothing interesting happens, over the coming months. I look forward to being brutally slagged off by each and every one of you in various comments sections across the Shiny portfolio.
Gary Cutlack
I know I've said this a million times already, but welcome to the good ship Shiny, Gary! I'm really thrilled we've taken you onboard and Tech Digest has already improved so much with your added weight - I look forward to working with you here at Shiny.
So, cough...where's my commission, then? Heh, jokes. I just expect you to run down to Starbucks three times a day for me or so, that will be more than adequate I'm sure. Just don't forget the paper cup holder!
Posted by: Katherine Hannaford | June 30, 2007 3:21 PM
Welcome, Gary. I expect Stuart and Sheldon will be happy to have another man about the Shiny office!
Glenda, Corrieblog editor
Posted by: Glenda | July 2, 2007 1:44 PM
what about me and Ash. Do we not count?
Posted by: chris price | July 4, 2007 1:28 PM
Ah, yes you and Ash of course. Sorry! So that's a total of 5 men and 97 women? ;-)
Posted by: Glenda | July 4, 2007 3:57 PM
I hope this won't interfere with his other duties? Hull painting month starts next week.
Posted by: Captain Jax | July 6, 2007 9:02 PM
Oh, my dear God, I thought no-one would ever reverse-jump the irony gap, but it seems Nathan Barley has pulled it off, and collected the purse, to boot.
Congratulations, Nate. May your stipend be better than the apple cores and dead rats on strings that the picket-fence-whitewashers are paying to The Working Man's Comment Is Free.
Posted by: robotslave | July 23, 2007 12:05 PM