wake up and smell the copy
Posted in journalism on Jan 31st, 2011
Just reading the sad news of John Barry’s death, and notice at the end of the BBC Online article that they’ve finally updated the way their comments work: Not sure if it’s a permanent change or they’re just experimenting. I’m yet to see ‘Ouf of Africa’, but the Editors’ Picks should make it a little [...]
Posted in digression, internet, technology on Jan 19th, 2011
I didn’t used to get worried about privacy on social media sites. I don’t tell them much about me, so they don’t have a lot to reveal/sell/give to third-party developers or whatever. But they’re getting weirder. I’ve never, for example, told Facebook where I live, although it obviously knew when I joined the city’s group. [...]
Posted in journalism on Jan 13th, 2011
Been a while, etc. Moved to write by this particular piece of twattery by the BBC. Birds dying, you say? Binge drinking you say? That sounds like a story combining recent bizarre avian trends with the warm glow of Puritan superiority. But wait, what’s this? The full story reveals that the birds died from (presumably [...]
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