Words Dept.

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. 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 [...]

A selection of my latest bookmarks. You could visit my Tumblelog for more stuff I’ve seen on the web. The Marple Leaf: Cheer up Alan Shearer! – Why Newcastle should go down. Journalism.co.uk: Newsquest editorial director speaks out on BNP advertising – Regional newspaper publisher defends BNP banner ads on its websites Mike Butcher of [...]

A selection of my latest bookmarks. You could visit my Tumblelog for more stuff I’ve seen on the web. Bloggers dispute Silvio Berlusconi party pictures – Italian PM allegedly airbrushed into photos of an 18-year-old model's birthday party, although no-one knows why. Jeff Jarvis: I'm not the only doomsayer On newspapers: "The insane response to [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 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 [...]

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 [...]

A selection of my latest bookmarks. BBC News (Video): Local newspapers in decline – Report by Nick Higham about what happens when local papers close. How to get a football legend to insult a singer – Extremely funny post from the "occasional drummer for Dakota Suite". Well worth reading, especially if you're a Liverpool fan. [...]