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If you haven’t got it, what you’re missing out on is:

• An unmissable video about kids and “ancient” technology
• The best productivity news of the week
• The rather unusual Buy of the Week recommendation
• Details of the Stratford Literary Fair
• The best technology stories of the week

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And in the meantime, take a look at today’s first-ever Blank Screen email newsletter in full right here in your browser.

I hope you like it.  It’s been a lot of fun creating it since the idea popped into my head last Saturday. I was on my way to exhibit The Blank Screen paperback at the Birmingham Independent Book Fair when it occurred to me that I could offer people a free PDF sample of a chapter. If, that is, I got their email address. It was but a short hop from that to thinking I could ask people to sign up for an email list and then it was a much longer hop to thinking what I could do with it for them.

Maybe if the list hadn’t been so successful I’d have thought of something else. Something quicker. Something a lot simpler. But it was simply lovely seeing that list grow on the day and then later over emails and social media.

So I think the email newsletter is good. And I know it’s your fault. Thanks.