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Make-up – the most sinister threat on our roads today.

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I’m not sure if this post heralds a return to regular Hackbashing, but today I find my enthusiasm fanned by some happy changes at work, and my rage stoked by some fucking awful journalism from the Mirror. First, take a look at this story from the paper. What a bastard, eh? Buggering off back to [...]

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Journochlophobia – fear of crowd-sourcing Handolio introduced me to ‘enochlophobia’ in this rather fine post about Larmer Tree on Living.

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Perhaps he was trying to beat his own record?

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I’ve been working on a monumental HB post, really I have. In the meantime: Barack Obama Interview John McCain Interview Sarah Palin Video Funny Election Video [via Buzzmachine]

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I should expect that, if I were the person who writes these things, I could now consider my life’s work complete.

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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 [...]

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We’ve been doing a nice line in lazy blogging lately. My excuse is I’ve been swamped with freelance at the same time as work went crazy. I was trying to work tonight, but (sorry Dave) it’s just not happening. A couple of weeks back I wrote a post about the state of the economy, but [...]

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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 [...]

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Happy one indeed, and big thanks to Handolio for doing all the hard work. He’s the Hackbash behemoth. I’m just the, um, moth. Personally I think we’ve done a good job of focussing on the original topic; working through the possibilities for real online journalism in a marketing environment. Now here’s a video of two [...]

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