Monty's Social Outlook – Issue 12

Sometimes it feels as if LinkedIn has been with us as long as the internet itself but hasn’t evolved at all. Let’s just call it Social Networking 0.0.

I appreciate that it may be much more than an allowance of reasonably dressed job-seekers flapping their apocryphal CVs in front of a reasonably interested audience, but it hasn’t done a thing for me. Perhaps it’s a social network for mingers. Continue reading

Monty’s Social Outlook – Issue 12

Sometimes it feels as if LinkedIn has been with us as long as the internet itself but hasn’t evolved at all. Let’s just call it Social Networking 0.0.

I appreciate that it may be much more than an allowance of reasonably dressed job-seekers flapping their apocryphal CVs in front of a reasonably interested audience, but it hasn’t done a thing for me. Perhaps it’s a social network for mingers. Continue reading

Monty's Social Outlook – Issue 11

I’m not sure where I stand on this Julian Assange and Wikileaks issue, but I do know that I never thought cables would be a subject that would grab the world’s attention.

I thought cables were objects that went across oceans or were sent from quaint Post offices or contained the news of a soldier’s death in World War I, not a way our masters communicated so-called secret information. Continue reading

Monty’s Social Outlook – Issue 11

I’m not sure where I stand on this Julian Assange and Wikileaks issue, but I do know that I never thought cables would be a subject that would grab the world’s attention.

I thought cables were objects that went across oceans or were sent from quaint Post offices or contained the news of a soldier’s death in World War I, not a way our masters communicated so-called secret information. Continue reading

Monty's Social Outlook – Issue 10

Today sees the global release of Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey, a Bollywood historical drama in which I have a speaking role as Major Johnson, a 1930s British officer who pistol-whips a woman, shoots revolutionaries and is a good old-fashioned baddie.

The movie is directed by Ashutosh Gorwariker, India’s only Oscar-nominated director and stars Abhishek Bachchan and Deepika Padukone, Bollywood’s biggest stars. I spent 25 days on set in Goa earlier this year… and, yes I did have a trailer with cable TV. Continue reading