About

I’m Andrew Chapman, incorrigible generalist and professional writer, editor and designer based near Oxford, UK. I also create/compile puzzles and invent online tools, quizzes and other creative whimsies (see below). You’re welcome to contact me to discuss ideas or commissions. Also, do follow me (@hatmandu) on Twitter.

Projects

• NEW! (December 2009) Try my text content and keyword analysis tool
• Try my Twitter personality test (also provides tweeting tips), Twanalyst.com
• Research project about formal constraints, rules of thumb etc for helping decision-making more fun, aiding creativity and more: Feweristics.com
• Writer? Try the Headline and Title Phrase Generator
• Try out my Consumer Spending Comparison Tool – are you a spendthrift or a miser?
• Blogger? Try out my Blogalyser (analyses your writing style) or the LiveJournal personality test

Websites

Other websites I run or co-run include:

• RELAUNCHED APRIL 2010 Who Should You Vote For? – the world’s original election decision quiz, used for the UK in 2005 and the US in 2008
• RELAUNCHED FEB 2010! What Should I Read Next? – a leading book recommendation site (6.500,000 visits and counting), now with ISBN lookup and more features on the way
• Qurl – a powerful URL-shortening service which allows you to track clickthroughs
• RELAUNCHED MAR 2010 A genealogy news site Geneally (updates on data and websites for UK and Irish family historians)
• The site for Oxford’s new fringe arts festival, Oxfringe, which I co-founded in 2007
• The small press reverb, which I co-founded in 2005
• Blind Atlas – a collaborative site featuring stories of fictional ‘invisible cities’, inspired by Italo Calvino (er, site down at the moment)