wake up and smell the copy
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 protect themselves. [...]
Posted in online journalism on Apr 4th, 2008
OK, let’s see if you can spot the flaw in this particular child-protection idea simply by reading the following standfirst:
Sex offenders’ e-mail addresses are to be passed to social networking sites like Facebook and Bebo to prevent them contacting children.
Any inkling why that might not work?
Frankly, I find it astounding that anyone could even write [...]
Posted in journalism on Sep 29th, 2007
A few weeks ago I was trawling around on the internet trying to find road casualty figures for this post on Living. One thing which struck me at the time was how difficult it is to find global figures - the best I could come up with was a frighteningly large number I’d seen repeated [...]
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