Words Dept.: archive

A selection of my latest bookmarks. You could visit my Tumblelog for more stuff I’ve seen on the web. Nielsen Wire: Twitter Quitters Post Roadblock to Long-Term Growth – "Twitter has enjoyed a nice ride over the last few months, but it will not be able to sustain its meteoric rise without establishing a higher [...]

When Guardian Media Group’s MEN Media announced last month that it was cutting a load of jobs at the Manchester Evening News and closing several local newspaper offices, there was a feeling from the NUJ and some staff that one of the reasons for the severity of the cuts was to protect Channel M. As [...]

A selection of my latest bookmarks. You could visit my Tumblelog for more stuff I’ve seen on the web. Battleship Island – Japan’s rotting metropolis – Great article and pics Guardian: Billy Corgan charges Smashing Pumpkins fans to access his video blog – Subscribers get 12 weeks of access witn 25 minutes of "updates" posted [...]

I keep reading that the new 50% income tax rate unveiled in the Budget on Wednesday is going to lead to a “brain drain” of which we should all be dreadfully afraid. Apparently, all the clever people who earn more than £150,000 a year are threatening to leave the country, with catastrophic consequences. The Telegraph [...]

A selection of my latest bookmarks. You could visit my Tumblelog for more stuff I’ve seen on the web. Video: Hilaire Bollock – BBC regional presenter makes testicle goof. Media Guardian: MEN Media and NUJ settle dispute – Strike ballot called off. Less redundancies than originally planned but local offices will still shut. Radio 4 [...]

Since there are loads of helpful social media evangelists out there providing handy hints about what to do in order to get the most out of social networking, I thought I’d buck the trend with my own unhelpful selection of the thirteeen (deliberately Web 2.0-ish random number) things people do on Twitter and Facebook that [...]

A selection of my latest bookmarks. You could visit my Tumblelog for more stuff I’ve seen on the web. Journalism.co.uk: The social effects of disappearing regional newspapers "That loss is something people won't necessarily be fighting for because they don't know they're losing it. We as journalists – that's our job – it's for us [...]

I’ve got a question. How is it that people who are expressly employed to advise very senior politicians on “political” matters haven’t got the gumption to realise that by typing offensive words into an e-mail, there’s a risk that those words might be made public? Damian McBride, a “special adviser” to the Prime Minister has [...]

A selection of my latest bookmarks. You could visit my Tumblelog for more stuff I’ve seen on the web. Nik Hewitt: Can local newspapers still win at digital? – “Digital is where we should be driving traffic, where we can provide the excellent journalistic content we have in abundance to a targeted online audience.” Malcolm [...]