Words Dept.: archive

A selection of my latest bookmarks. Letter to GMG Regional Media’s Mark Dodson from MEN NUJ chapel Stephen Fry: The internet and I – Rather good quotes in a warm and thoroughly non-geeky style. YouTube: Boards of Canada set to 80s TV adverts

It’s come to something when a regional newspaper group thinks it makes business sense to close eight local offices and force what’s left of its depleted journalistic staff base to either work from home or commute miles into the city centre to get to their own newsroom. The idea of long-established local beat journalists fulfilling the basic requirements [...]

Fear and loathing, moral pomposity, confused lines of argument, unfunny satire, tastelessness and hypocrisy have all been on show as never before in recent weeks as the nation’s newspaper columnists wring their last buck from terminally-ill cancer victim Jade Goody. Here’s a compendium of choice quotes on the subject from the media Twatosphere. Allison Pearson: [...]

A selection of my latest bookmarks. Twitter: Celebrity annoys follower with "spamming session" – Peter Serafinowicz illustrates possible perils of Twitter use BBC: YouTube to block UK music videos Times: Nothing’s breedin’ changed at Crufts, mate

A selection of my latest bookmarks. Guardian: Chicago police want to ban "erotic services" ads on Craigslist "Missing children, runaways, abused women and women trafficked in from foreign countries are routinely forced to have sex with strangers because they're being pimped on craigslist." Twitter Truth: Changes to Twitter The Next Web: The Robot Who Loved [...]

What is green custard? As far as I can see it’s a vaguely remembered school dinner treat, which, before today, rated about three mentions on the whole of the internet

A selection of my latest bookmarks. Skittles home page, yesterday (Warning: offensive) – Horrible tooth-rotting confectionery brand Skittles, sorry #skittles, pays the price for turning its home page into a Twitter stream Paid Content: Twitter Close To Finalising UK SMS Deal With O2 – So you have to sign up to O2 to get it? [...]