once were journalists
Posted in freelance, journalism, work on Mar 2nd, 2008
I’m lucky enough to have a regular freelance gig, explaining to the good readers of Computer Shopper ‘how it works’. The only problem is that I generally don’t know how it works, and it can be extremely hard to learn enough about a topic to write it up quickly and competently, and to do so [...]
Posted in journalism on Nov 27th, 2007
Wikipedia entries are case-sensitive.
Witness MIME, a discussion of all-round email encoding cleverness, versus mime…
…well, the picture says it all.
Posted in journalism on Nov 1st, 2007
What got me thinking about Mac vs PC deathmatches was a weekend spent researching and writing a How it Works article on games consoles.
Though I worked in games, I’ve never had the opportunity to write about them (other than an annual pilgrimage to cycling management nirvana). Do enough research, though, and things begin to get [...]
Posted in journalism, politics on Aug 17th, 2007
On the subject of Wikipedia and changes, am I the only person who isn’t especially exercised about the current Wikipedia sanitation furore? Perhaps I’m just a naturally cynical person: does it really surprise anyone that people and corporations are inclined to massage the entries about themselves in a publicly accessible encyclopedia?
I’m reminded of the uneasy [...]
Posted in journalism on Aug 17th, 2007
Anyone looked at BBC News today? Stupid question really. You don’t need to see the site’s off-the-scale Social Meter score to know it’s one of the most authoritative on the internet, even if its writers still don’t know where to put an apostrophe.
The site’s lovable semi-literate fucknuttery remains intact, then, but the Beeb has finally [...]
Last night, I dreamt that I was in a small three-storey terraced house with some serious left-wing armed revolutionary types
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