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David Goodwin

Press Service International

David Goodwin is the former Editor of The Salvation Army’s magazine,War Cry. He is also a cricket tragic, and an unapologetic geek.

David Goodwin archive of articles may be viewed at  http://www.pressserviceinternational.org/david-goodwin.html

  • Is Nostalgia a thing of the past, or the wave of the future?

    Right now there is big money in catering to people’s fond memories of the past. The amount of remakes of classic 80s movies we’ve seen, with plenty more to come, shows that studios and networks realise that the Generation X/Millennial market is a licence to print money—and they are the ones that go and see superhero movies that tap into their childhood heroes, actual children are just a nice bonus.

  • Leading from the Front

    One of the questions that came out of the ball tampering controversy that engulfed the Australian cricket team earlier this year was how much of the blame should go to the captain of the team, Steve Smith, or the coach, Darren Lehmann.

  • Head in the Clouds – One Day in Melbourne

    While technology hasn’t advanced to the point where it can do all the hard work for you, it can certainly make life a lot easier for writers. The rise of cloud technology provides a number of tools for content producers, and when used properly can save large amounts of time and effort—and reduce stress, too!

  • Marathon man

    In the recent Commonwealth Games, spectators and viewers were shocked by the confronting sight of Scottish marathon runner Callum Hawkins collapsing mid race, requiring medical attention.

  • Customer disservice

    There are certain opinions it is pretty safe to express at a party or around the water cooler, because you know that you’re unlikely to get much disagreement.

  • Let the (Commonwealth) Games begin

    If you were to take an informal survey of people at your work or school, or even on the street, and asked them what they thought about the Commonwealth Games, you’d probably get as many opinions as people.

  • The pitfalls of pedestals

    Christopher Nolan’s exceptional Batman trilogy devotes much of its energy to exploring the nature of what it means to be a hero

  • The art of shutting up

    There are entire fortunes, technologies and industries built on the fact that everyone loves having their say.

  • The mark of greatness

    Well, the Ashes are over for this round of cricket’s oldest ongoing rivalry and, while the ODIs and T20s will be enjoyable, we will have to wait until Australia set off for England to discover the answers to a number of questions this series has left with us.

  • God isn’t dead, yet

    For most people, it probably isn’t that hard to think of things that are more interesting than looking at the statistics from Australia’s yearly census.