It seems there was more to today’s unrelenting commuter misery than the “adverse weather conditions” cited on the South West Trains tannoy. My six-hour total commute featured not one but two trains on fire. I ended up stuck behind on for about half an hour at Surbiton on the way in to Waterloo – then delayed […]
…Farnham in the snow last night. Which would be nice if I wasn’t supposed to be going somewhere by train today. I was a bit sniffy about the tannoy announcement by South West Trains yesterday afternoon that it would be running a reduced service because of the “severe weather warning”. At least wait for the […]
Like many WordPress users, I’ve recently had a couple of scheduled posts fail to go live. It seems this is a WordPress 2.9 problem. If anyone else has had the same issue, here’s what I did to solve it. Upgrade to WP 2.9.1. It seems WordPress has been stung into action by the bad feedback […]
Yesterday’s “news” carried two items that should have been shocking in their inability to separate hysteria and PR puffery from proper reporting. If that wasn’t really what the modern media is all about. The stories are from supposedly opposite corners of the media ring – one super serious, the other light-hearted. Each is crap in […]
Oops – no we’re not. The 273 new vacancies advertised on Journalism.co.uk turn out to be mostly repeats of the same job. Please – don’t do this to us just as we’ve got used to the idea there’s no future in media: we can’t take the disappointment.
The Online Journalism Blog seems to have gone into meltdown. Publisher Paul Bradshaw says it’s up, but that all content seems to have vanished. “Could be bad.” It’s a timely reminder that online is not permanent. In fact, online content is particularly vulnerable to simply vanishing into the ether if you fail to pay your […]
As you sit relaxing this Christmas – roasting chestnuts on an open fire, rocking around the Christmas tree and watching mommy kissing Santa Claus on YouTube – ponder the strange truth that Web 2.0 is not as new as you thought. For the idea of user-generated content has been with us for several decades. According […]
Posting will be light, as they say, on Freelance Unbound over the next week or so, as my media attention is distracted by the triple-pronged attack of tea, chocolate and wall-to-wall festive TV. There will be some activity, but it’ll probably be mostly on the Stop.Frame animation blog, as I finally get to write up my […]
Here’s a fine example of a cool-sounding TV presenter “job” that many young journalists would scramble for. The catch? It’s that attractive “Voluntary” salary. Which is code for “no money” – though they do offer food and travel expenses. As well as devoting one day a fortnight to filming and presenting the show, any young […]
Here’s a fine example of journalistic excellence from that paragon of local journalism the Bloom Beacon. Makes you proud…