About the contributor

I'm the staff writer on Practical Classics^{About links} magazine writing about all kinds of old cars and old car related events and news. Since I talk about them the whole time, it seemed to make sense to get paid for writing about them. I used to be an Assistant Content Producer on the Central Communities Team at the BBC, which means I spent much of time dealing with the wide range of colourful personalities that make up the BBC online community, as well as trying to help to hosts to cope with the transition to DNA. I've also been involved in lots of discussions within the Beeb and with Culture Online and others about the legal and copyright issues around user-generated content.

I used to work on the People's War site^{About links}, and will try and get the chance to visit occasionally to see what you're all up to...