Words Dept.

Help me. I’m worried I may be one of those “Morrissey apologists” you sometimes hear about. None of my best friends are Morrissey, yet I can’t help empathise with the erstwhile Smiths frontman. To make matters worse, I’ve got form in this area. Three years ago when, in an NME interview, Morrissey expressed some rather [...]

Has anyone else noticed that the Guardian has published some absolute garbage recently? A couple of weeks ago they had that stupid piece that implied comedian Richard Herring was some kind of a Nazi-worshipping racist and today there’s a piece on the website called “Women watch men strip for fun. Men watch women for darker [...]

A selection of my latest bookmarks. Richard Herring.com: Warming up – Herring responds to out-of-context quotes in Guardian piece. “To have those contentious lines quoted out of context, with absolutely no explanation of what else takes place can have no other effect than to make the casual (and even the quite careful) reader assume that [...]

A selection of my latest bookmarks. You could visit my Tumblelog for more stuff I’ve seen on the web. Spotify for iPhone – Clever use of PR. Spotify says the app is ready, whacks ball over to Apple for a response. Mobile Industry Review: Can SpinVox spin their way out of this? – “Hi-tech voice [...]

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. 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. [...]

A selection of my latest bookmarks. You could visit my Tumblelog for more stuff I’ve seen on the web. Steve Bell: “Lash me with wisteria” – Absurdity of the MPs’ expenses row successfully nailed by Guardian cartoonist. Blog This, Grandma – I really love this phrase. Tim Luckhurst: The BBC pays too much for too [...]

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. 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 [...]

A selection of my latest bookmarks. You could visit my Tumblelog for more of this sort of thing. The Apprentice Analysed – Occupational psycholgist offers insight about candidates on the Apprentice eaves.ca: Newspapers’ decline is a sign of democracy, not a symptom of its death MediaGuardian: MEN Media to use ‘skills matrix’ to decide who [...]