Selected recent outputs:
Interview with Raspberry Pi creator Eben Upton, on Shift Run Stop (April)
Top 5 Hack-a-Day hacks, for WIRED UK (May issue)
Interview with Professor David Trotter, on the Made by Many blog (March 19th)
In conversation with Dentsu’s Chris Heathcote for Imperica magazine – we discuss positive and negative visions of the future, advertising, nostalgia and more (Jan 19th)
Preparatory sessions I’m organising in Feb, ahead of this year’s hotly anticipated apocalypse ThisistheEvent.com (Feb 12th & 19th)
Talking about the End of the World, on The Pod Delusion podcast (about 1 hour in) (January 2012)
John Fleming interviews me about some of my early comedy memories, in the Huffington Post (December 2011)
How To Become a Professional Online Gambler for WIRED UK (January 2012)
Shift Run Stop Christmas Special, podcast hosted by Roo Reynolds and myself, interviewing Jon Ronson, Stefanie Posavec, Sound Diaries, and Lee Maguire (December 2011)
Quick Pummelvision of moments from Storywarp #3, storytelling conference I co-organise, features Professor Joanna Woodall, Ivor Baddiel, Helen Lewis-Hasteley and John Fleming (December 2011)
Talking about time travel on The Pod Delusion (39:22) (December 2011)
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Who am I?
I am Leila Johnston (pronounced Layla) and this is my online portfolio. I am currently (spring/summer 2012) working as a technologist-in-residence on the Happenstance Project, based at the Site Gallery – a contemporary art space in Sheffield. Before this, I worked full-time as a digital copywriter/communicator/inventor for a creative studio in London called Made by Many. I’m a published author, blogger, comedy writer (BBC), journalist of interesting countercultural ideas (WIRED UK), speaker, event inventor, newspaper editor, and podcaster. If you’d like me to do some work for you then please get in touch - leila@finalbullet.com.