wake up and smell the copy
Posted in digression, internet on May 14th, 2009
Right, it isn’t interesting, but for the sake of background here’s the story behind Handolio. Back in 1998 or something when I was twatting around playing internet games at Bullfrog, I used the moniker Handles, after an accidental/deliberate mis-appellation in a record company rejection letter we once got. But as the games got popular, more [...]
Posted in internet on Feb 3rd, 2009
Skim the article, then read the first two comments. http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2009/jan/30/us-box-office-preview-monsters-vs-aliens (via @christt, via @davidahughes)
Posted in internet on Jan 7th, 2009
I’m none too convinced by social networking, but I’m a happy advocate of Flickr and Last.FM, both of which are built around something I care about. Even there, though, people are sometimes unfathomable. Take this picture of Toyota’s iQ climbing a wall in Paris. It’s good enough that we used it in a blog post [...]
I mean, really, what the fuck?
Not sure whether it’s going to persuade swing US voters in the desired direction or scare them other way, but this is ace.
Posted in internet, journalism, marketing on Oct 26th, 2008
I’m 36 and no longer could I exactly be described as young. But age has its advantages. I like to think that what I lose in elasticity, I gain in wisdom. Still, sometimes I fall victim to the unfettered idealism with which I grew up. It wouldn’t be fair to say that I took a [...]
Posted in internet, technology on Sep 23rd, 2008
You know how, once you get familiarised with something, it’s hard to spot that it’s stupid? Well, every now and then you get a flash of perspective. Earlier my brother sent me a link to a Times Online story. As sometimes happens in email, the link got broken across two lines. In this case just [...]
Posted in digression, internet on Sep 13th, 2008
UPDATED: I might be wrong about some of this post; see comments Here’s a question: should a union act to represent the interests of its members, or to sell them a product? Let me tell you why I ask. I’ve been researching an article on robberies that affect students, and what they can do to [...]
Posted in internet, journalism, marketing, online journalism on Sep 2nd, 2008
An interesting post on Antony’s blog has drawn me into a thread about the commercials behind journalism. In essence, Roy Greenslade has challenged Philip M Stone’s “heretical thought” that papers return to print-first publishing, but he doesn’t suggest an alternative revenue model. Antony notes iCrossing’s experiments with new models of journalism. Meanwhile, Paul Bradshaw (in [...]
There are probably two maths teachers out there somewhere, and perhaps an A-Level examiner, who can attest to a past lack of interest in statistics on my part. But only 95.7% of statistics are bad. The good ones, I am reminded, live in Google Analytics and tell you fascinating things about how few people find [...]
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