Category Archives: Media

Quote of the day

This comment, on a post by Charles Arthur, sums up the most frustrating thing about working in a newsroom:
Once a story has run in one mainstream outlet, it’s put up to conference *before* it’s given to a writer to check. Once it’s been sold to conference, the news desk can’t nix it without looking silly, [...]

Good and bad web advertising

A month or so ago there was a discussion on the Underscore mailing list about the evils (or otherwise) of web advertising.
I chimed in with some thoughts that have been bubbling in my head for a while now, which relate to online journalism and its relationship to online advertising:
Print media is - has always been [...]

Adventures in journalism, part ()

Last week the Telegraph got in touch, saying please could I write something about iPhone hacks to tie in with the imminent iPhone launch in the UK. Sure, I said, be happy to. Can you do 1200 words, they said. No problem.
The article appeared today: Apple v the iHackers, and it has been cut back [...]

Quote of the day

Until recently, most Gawker bloggers were paid a flat rate of $12 per post for twelve posts a day, with quarterly bonuses adding to the bottom line; these bonuses could be used to buy equity in the company, which took two years to vest. Now, Denton is moving to a pay-for-performance system. He has always [...]

Rising Slowly 3.0

It’s back (again) kids, and this time it’s tumbly. Rising Slowly is re-re-(re? sorry i’ve lost count)-born as a new-mangled “tumblelog” (oh those hip kids are going to love me now).
Seriously, though, tumblr is an extremely impressive little service. Posting stuff is very fast and very easy. Ace.

I like G24

I’m quite amazed by the Guardian’s new print-your-own newspaper, G24. In size and format it’s almost exactly what I’ve been wanting to see a national newspaper do for years now; it’s what I hoped the Guardian or Independent might become when they switched from broadsheet to tabloid.
It’s much smaller than a tabloid (A4, of [...]

Nice look, shame about the content

Last week’s relaunched Observer was a welcome change in many respects, but I was disappointed by the colour magazine (imaginatively called “The Observer Magazine”). Everything in it was the same old Sunday magazine crap. I want something different.
You’d have thought that an upmarket Sunday newspaper with a largely intelligent, educated audience would have the guts [...]

The new news

When I heard about the Buncefield explosion on Sunday, the first thing I did when I got to the computer was check BBC news.
But the second thing I did was look for photos tagged with Buncefield at Flickr; and the third thing I did was look for links tagged with Buncefield at del.icio.us.
These [...]