Not sure what state the UK economy is in? Better not read the papers and newswires today, then – you’ll only get more confused. Today saw the release of the UK’s second quarter GDP statistics. Hmm. How bad were they? “Bad”, says Yahoo Finance, which takes its content from news service AFP. British economy sees […]
Warning: intense WordPress geekery ahead The headline above will mean nothing to most readers. But there will be a little niche of WordPress nerds for whom it will cause a tiny thrill of excitement. Anyone who has made it to the footer of one of these posts will have seen that I am using the […]
I’m up to my eyes in web taxonomy and deadlines today. So enjoy this contribution to headline heaven until I surface. All we need now is a connection to midget hookers…
I’ve written before about online creative freelance marketplace People Per Hour. I noted that one key problem with the site is the hopelessly inadequate briefs supplied by potential employers. So, if anyone reading this is thinking about trying to source freelance writing using the site, here’s how to prepare your brief. It’s clear about what […]
A really nice example of an “elephant in the living room” typo, from Bill Bennett’s Knowledge Workers’ blog. As with investigative journalists, you’ll miss the sub-editors when we’re gone. Won’t stop them getting rid of us though…
For everyone who can’t get through the day without new and shiny material to look at, be reassured that there’s a lot going on here, but most of it is in the comments section, where readers and I are engaged in the savage cut and thrust of debate on matters ranging from why paid journalism […]
Some interesting points have been made in the comments to my post about Why Paid Journalism is in Trouble. Crucially, they falls into the trap of conflating the interests of readers with those of journalists. It’s worth looking at this in a bit more depth. (Quite a bit more depth actually. Sorry if I ramble […]
Well, kinda. From the Paleofuture blog: a 1925 newspaper interview entitled “Expect Movies to be Produced in Every Home” in which legendary Hollywood producer/director Cecil B DeMille predicts that: “Within the next 20 years some householder with absolutely no studio training will produce a screen masterpiece, with no stage except that of his own parlor, dining […]
As they say, prediction is hard – especially about the future. Many years ago – sometime in the mid-to-late 1990s – I started to take note of the technological change revamping the journalism business, and I started to make some fanciful predictions about the direction it would take. Anyone who takes an interest in futurology […]
…much more than real people do For some reason journalists have grabbed hold of Twitter as a starving man does a ham sandwich. But why? What is it about this slightly clunky, limited, and frankly difficult to negotiate web tool that we love so much? Here are a few thoughts… You can build up a […]