Words Dept.: archive

A selection of my latest bookmarks. You could visit my Tumblelog for more stuff I’ve seen on the web. Betty's Utility Room: Knickerless – A daft take on the departure of "Conor McKnickerless" (or is it George Lamb?) as editor of NME. Very funny. Guardian: Blogging: the long and short of it "Writing a blog [...]

As a conscientious citizen of Stockport, and since nobody else seems to have bothered themselves much with the subject, I thought I’d have a look at Stockport MP Ann Coffey’s expenses, as revealed last week, to see if I could find anything interesting. The Manchester Evening News has already mentioned something about curtains and a [...]

The Guardian reckons that people aren’t blogging so much any more, and much prefer the shorter, sweeter option of tweeting and updating their status on Facebook. A lot of it is based on anecdotal evidence but there’s some science behind it, according to Charles Arthur. NetNewsWire, my RSS feed reader, has nearly 500 feeds. When [...]

A selection of my latest bookmarks. You could visit my Tumblelog for more stuff I’ve seen on the web. Slate: Orphan tweets – People who sign up for Twitter, post once, then never return. The most incompetent politician of all time – Doncaster's new Mayor fucks up interview. Guardian: Leading historians on whether fascism is [...]

You might have noticed I haven’t written much here recently. That’s because I can’t think of anything interesting to write about. Each post takes quite a lot of time to write and research and, after two years of doing that, in the long run I’m not sure what the point is. Google ranking? Lots of [...]

A selection of my latest bookmarks. You could visit my Tumblelog for more stuff I’ve seen on the web. The Marple Leaf: Silver linings on dark clouds “There is light at the end of this dark tunnel. These people [the BNP] are nutters. They will now have to face the same level of scrutiny as [...]

Here’s a link to a photo of the anti-BNP protest that’s taking place at Piccadilly Gardens in Manchester as I type. One question: Why, when the election was last week and two of the racist twats have already been elected? Actually, here’s another one: Isn’t the idea of protesting against the outcome of a democratic [...]

A selection of my latest bookmarks. You could visit my Tumblelog for more stuff I’ve seen on the web. Guardian: No new stadium. A huge debt. Despite their promises, Hicks and Gillett have ‘done a Glazers’ – Excellent piece by David Conn 5 Twitter Tools to Help You Manage Unfollowers The Worst, #1 – Magazine. [...]

James Purnell. You know, the “sideburned schmoozer”, as the Sunday Telegraph calls him. Apparently he’s resigned from the Cabinet. But think about it. Was this bloke ever actually in the Cabinet? We’re toldhe was work and pensions secretary. Was he? I think we’re taking a hell of a lot at face value here. I never recall actually [...]