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WSJ.com: Dow Falls Below 8000
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“Journo blogger and academic Paul Bradshaw asks if we can define blogging without referring to ...”
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Times Online: FA asks Joe Kinnear to explain 'Mickey Mouse referee' insult
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Barack Obama's Flickr stream: Election Night 11-04-08
Fascinating set of pictures from Obama's team... reveals the ...”
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MediaGuardian: Election watchers flock to BBC
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Event: what happens to newspapers?
“I'm looking forward to tomorrow evening's New Media Knowledge debate, What Happens to Newspapers?
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Joining the Wall Street Journal
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More on the crunch and Scotland
“The implications of the credit crunch on Scottish nationalism is something already being explored by ...”
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Is the crash really Scotland's "financial Culloden?"
“There's a grim irony that, just as Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling are rebuilding their ...”
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Reality television
“Never mind escapism. Turns out, as Sarah Hughes reports on MediaGuardian, that real life is ...”
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An injury table for the English Premier League
“OK... this will appear downright odd to everyone who didn't sign up for the Completetosh.com ...”
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Time: how we became the United States of France
“A little bittersweet but... well, Bill Saporito in Time made me laugh with an almost ...”
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Banking: happier days*
“I could offer some searing insight into the financial crisis, or... some YouTube vids. C'mon... ...”
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Rounding up your London-living advice
“There was a lovely response to my post last week on living in London, which ...”
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If you don't have an argument of your own to deal with...
“The latest miracle brought to us by the interwebs; SideTaker - the site that "lets ...”
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Ten years, and ten tips for living in London
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Best Western responds to those hack claims
“I mentioned Iain S Bruce's big Sunday Herald exclusive yesterday, which claimed that 8m people ...”
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[Updated] Best Western hacked - 8m people should [maybe] be nervous
“[Update: Since I wrote this, Best Western has responded to the story, firmly denying the ...”
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See Barack roll
“Only three days after you saw it somewhere else first...
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Fantasy league - it's filling up fast, just like my basement
“We're cleaning up here at Tosh Towers, but not in the financial sense. Following the ...”
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Number 10's new site misses the 2.0 mark
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My, how we laughed
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When blogs die
“Damn. A favourite blog - London Connections - has suddenly decided to give up the ...”
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Ben Hammersley joins Wired UK
“I'm delighted to see Ben Hammersley's joining Wired UK as deputy editor. It's a great ...”
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Office temperature watch
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"While Obama was wowing them in Berlin, McCain was knocking over apple sauce jars in supermarkets. Hello, Tipping Point..."
“Hugh MacLeod's pithy political commentary on Twitter, this morning.
[Update, 1600:] Since I'm getting a lot ...”
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Music from the "See how it feels" BMW ad
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Anyone fancy a game of fantasy football?
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SEO: we're all at it
“Over at the Telegraph, Shane Richmond is lamenting Private Eye's confusion about the search engine ...”
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A TV news report that could make you sick to the stomach
“My attention was grabbed by an ITV London Today story this lunchtime, firmly stating that ...”
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From the archives... Google's first mention
“For no other reason than it's a lazy Sunday morning, I was browsing back through ...”
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Pies are great
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The BBC goes a'trampling
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To Twit, or not to Twit
“[Warning: this post will mean nothing to you if you don't use Twitter or - ...”
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It helps to forget
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Spinning through time on Live Search Maps
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The fragile web we weave
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Spammers strangling Craigslist?
“From Techdirt:
"Random text is added to each spam message to fool Craigslist's duplicate message detector. ...”
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Special Friday bonus link
“I know you're looking forward to next weekend's Eurovision Song Contest finals as much as ...”
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The clear-up begins
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Flickr: Old Ibrox
Fantastic set of pictures showing Ibrox Park being rebuilt in what must have ...”
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Funky Cloud
Fun-looking GTD app for the Mac
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NIKEFOOTBALL:
Hammersley found the full version of ...”
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Where we find the time
“When I tell friends that, chez Tosh, we tend to watch TV while using our ...”
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Tikun Olam-???? ????: Comment is Free, Wikipedia, and Why Blogs ‘Don’t Get No Respect’
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Did AOL steal my work? I need your help...
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Wired.com: Twinkle is iPhone + Twitter + location
The future has arrived, on jailbroken iPhones at ...”
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Scotland cruise | Gallery | guardian.co.uk Travel
I've been sitting thousands of miles away gawping at ...”
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Fake Steve Jobs on the future of digital media
“Forbes magazine journalist Dan Lyons, aka Fake Steve Jobs, has given an entertaining keynote here ...”
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Blake's 7 is being remade for Sky One
I'm obviously wildly excited. I hope they recreate ...”
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LocationAware.org
"LocationAware's goal is to help drive the standardization of how a user's geolocation is exposed ...”
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Insufferable Web 2.0 post: day one
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I was once a US Government-sanctioned journalist, you know
“A footnote on the whole Mayhill Fowler thing: Mindy McAdams, writing about this story, makes ...”
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Who's a journalist, who's not, and why it doesn't really matter anyway
“There's been some enjoyable to-and-fro after a Obama campaign donor, Mayhill Fowler, punched the mouth ...”
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New York Observer Gawker Media Sells Idolator, Gridskipper; Spins Off Wonkette
Denton's email hints at some ...”
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Charlie Brooker: I don't care what Ken Livingstone does - I'll still vote for him
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BuzzMachine: Customer Omega for the airlines
A fine polemic. "If there ever was a tipping point ...”
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"It's all gone blue"
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AppleInsider: Apple conceptualized smart MVNO system ahead of iPhone
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Eclectic boogaloo: Oh no. The Tories got in.
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Martin Moore: The bizarre relationship between Alastair Campbell and the BBC
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BuzzMachine: The last portal
Jeff hails Yahoo's new women's portal as "born from a speadsheet rather ...”
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Dadblog: Something is very, very wrong here
Lloyd on why British TV drama sucks. He blames ...”
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Serious journalism's broccoli complex
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HoopsHype acquired
“... barely 24 hours after I noted this about HoopsHype, the site was bought by ...”
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WordPress › Blog » 2.5 Sneak Peek
Looking forward to the 2.5 upgrade, which has input ...”
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Lessons from HoopsHype, the influential NBA site run from... Spain
“There are interesting lessons (or reminders) falling out this WSJ.com story about HoopsHype, a basketball ...”
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Applauding Shirky's light touch
“Clay Shirky rolled into town yesterday, giving a lunchtime lecture to a packed house down ...”
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The Asus Eee PC, and why small could be big
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WSJ.com: Why we're powerless to resist grazing on endless web data
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Guardian.co.uk: Leader: Royal retreat
The point of newspapers is to give readers the facts. When they ...”
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Valleywag: In Scoble vs. Calacanis, Musk's Tesla wins
When our alien overlords finally descend for the ...”
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Valleywag finds its voice
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Guardian.co.uk: My day as Brentford FC's assistant manager
"There may be a gulf between Premier League ...”
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Clinton campaign may be in more trouble than it knows
“From today's coverage:
"Clinton's strategist, Mark Penn, tried to downplay the importance of momentum. 'Winning Democratic ...”
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More perspectives on Yahoo + Microsoft
“I think the proposed merger is a bad idea simply on business terms - these ...”
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Good grief, Yahoo
“I do hope Yahoo's beleaguered top brass didn't spend all weekend thinking up this defense ...”
| Jan 31
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Scott Douglas: A Canny place for a pint
Loving this post about the Canny Man's, a ...”
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Cheek by jowl
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Facebook's a nuisance, isn't it?
“We always knew that Facebook had the capacity to turn into a right pain in ...”
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Is Town's spot of bother a record?
"It is believed Swindon Town have become the first ...”
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Ready for a seismic, and lasting, shift in TV viewing
“I've had a post in draft for weeks. It was going to wonder aloud about ...”
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Tech weekly: Macworld, CES and One Laptop Per Child
I'm biased, I know, but I think ...”
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Notebooks.com: MacBook Air: Hands on at MacWorld
"The MacBook Air is impressively thin, but Apple’s asking ...”
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Teaching journalism new tricks (and keeping a few old ones too)
“There's been quite a stooshie around journalism training and education these last few days. Paul ...”
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DIGtrends: The Digital Tipping Point is Imminent
"The fundamental shift in the way in which we ...”
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Jay Leno: How to Float a Boat on Air
Snigger.
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Guardian.co.uk: UK's worst rail service faces strike
I used to commute on "First" "Great" "Western". Question ...”
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MediaGuardian: Mail on Sunday relaunches next weekend
"The Mail on Sunday will relaunch [...] with an ...”
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FollowFollow.com: Ibrox stadium history
History of the Glasgow stadium with pictures from through the years
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MediaGuardian: New Big Brother launches with less than half of last year's audience
And, call me ...”
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Those weeks in media, in full
“What a scarily efficient bunch they are - less than 24 hours after my meme-y ...”
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My week in media
“Memewatch: Having kicked-off a "week in media meme", picked up by bloggers of such lofty ...”
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Steve Jobs Keynote Index Fund
"If you held the $10,000 of [Apple] shares bought in 1997, ...”
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Lessons in diplomacy (part two)
“How the world changes in 24 hours. Voice of America reports:
"The United States Monday ...”
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BBC - Radio Labs - Scrobbling your BBC Radio listening
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Subterranea Britannica: Crystal Palace High Level Station subway
Those crazy Victorians
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Slate: Why Starbucks actually ...”
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Merry Christmas, all
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Guardian Video: Top Gear BBC iPlayer ad
Delighted they're using Top Gear's visit to the deep ...”
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The things an iPhone does differently
“Most mobile phones I've owned have sucked. Because I've tended to go for more fully-specced ...”
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The abiding value of breaking news
"It’s shocking that we still have to bring up how ...”
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Marking up the NUJ's new media verdict
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OneOfSix: Hacking the Tassimo single-serve coffee machine
One of the geekiest blog posts I've read start ...”
Fewer English, better for England?
“The debate about the number of English players playing for English clubs, which I joined ...”
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Congratulations to Planet Ink
“Hearty congratulations to my mate Shaun Milne and his colleagues at Planet Ink, who are ...”
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I Am Seb: Why the BBC Fails at the Internet
Terrifying blog post on technical travails ...”
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Holiday music horror
“Damn near disgraced m'self when I read James Likeks' description of this version of Good ...”
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Google Maps for Mobile Shows Your Location, Even Without GPS
Cue cries of: now they know ...”
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On footballing quotas
“You won't hear me arguing for restraint of trade very often, but in football's case ...”
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Video: The return of Max Headroom
Splendid idea... 80s Channel 4 icon Max Headroom is back, ...”
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More on Carphone Warehouse's dodgy insurance sales
“You'll recall I bought my iPhone from Carphone Warehouse... and the salesman misled me about ...”
Answers...
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In Croatia for a memorable win
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This'll be the post-mortem, then
“The voice is recovering, the head clearing, the cat is back from under the bed. ...”
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Good grief
“Britain's debt and numeracy crises, explained in one story:
'Cool cash' card confusion
"A LOTTERY scratchcard has ...”
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It won't stop me buying an iPhone tonight...
“but Sony's new ad for its MP3 players is really rather good. It was made ...”
1 comments 02
Big in Linux
“BBC head of technology Ashley Highfield's been upsetting m'techy friends this week, apparently suggesting the ...”
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Documentary footage of my Saturday morning lie-in
“Wake up catUploaded by dmars72”
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SacredFacts: blah blah blog
There's no better way to understand the huge changes sweeping the media ...”
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Five things the NUJ could do to engage with the web
“OK. As threatened yesterday, here are some suggestions on how the NUJ could get more ...”
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NUJ and new media: the trouble is, they just don't know what's going on
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The Journalist magazine finally arrived at Tosh Towers, and its convergence coverage was broadly as ...”
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Guardian: 3 set to announce Skype phone
Big fuss over this, and techies might wonder why... ...”
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JACK fm Oxfordshire : playing what we want
The Jack radio format - ultramixed adult contemporary ...”
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Engadget: Apple and Sony, like peas in an iPod
Remarkable similarity between press shots for a ...”
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NUJ: is it "hypocritical" to remain a member?
“It would, you'd imagine, take something remarkable to unite commentators from the Telegraph and the ...”
21 comments
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Guardian America | Guardian Unlimited
Welcome to the newest node on the Guardian Unlimited network - ...”
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Scotland's continued health
“It's good to see Times columnist Magnus Linklater agree with my earlier post here that ...”
Yes, I know. I've changed it all again
“The last blog theme lasted less than a month, I realise. But it just wasn't ...”
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Here's to Scotland's health
“Today's Telegraph splash on Scotland's plans to abolish prescription charges might sound like Tory bleating, ...”
1 comments 12
Interesting Dulles
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Phil Windley: Living with the Redbilled Oxpecker
"The most important lesson to learn about the press ...”
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NYC: Plotting the future of networked journalism
“I'm in New York this week, at Jeff Jarvis's Networked Journalism summit at the New ...”
1 comments 08
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NYC iPod doctor
They say you can get anything delivered in Manhattan... I'm going to try ...”
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ThinkGeek :: Wi-Fi Detector Shirt
The glowing bars on the front of the shirt dynamically change ...”
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AOP awards 2007
We had a good, three gong night on the Guardian Unlimited table. Wins ...”
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Google's agency deal
“British online news veteran Peter Bale has had some interesting things to say at today's ...”
2 comments | Sep 30
Aaand... we're live?
“I've been farting about with this for weeks. It's a new look, a new publishing ...”
13 comments 16
Facebook is not the web. It's only on the web.
“Mike Butcher - back at TechCrunch UK, I'm happy to see - writes an interesting ...”
2 comments 15
Cruel, nasty, short
“Why is my blog top of Google India for the search term "cruel nasty short ...”
3 comments 14
It's the finest bevvy ad ever made
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The essay that got me started
“Dug out during some research for a conference talk: this essay by Josh Quittner, published ...”
2 comments | Aug 19
Running silent
“Things are going quiet around here for the next few weeks... on the blog's return, ...”
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A journalism student writes...
“Sigh. This email, from what I presume to be a desperate undergrad with a pressing ...”
5 comments | Jul 31
It's hard to see the future from there
“I was sorry to see that the Economist's innovation project, Project Red Stripe, didn't yield ...”
5 comments
On setting up an Apple Airport wifi network
“A recurring frustration chez Tosh is the Wifi, provided by Apple's Airport kit. It seems ...”
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Covering a summer of floods in video
“If you don't live in the UK, you could be forgiven for not appreciating the ...”
8 comments 26
Tough gig
“We all like to grumble about problems at work from time to time, but spare ...”
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Liverpool's bold new stadium
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More frank news coverage
“Following on from last week's post, I know you'll appreciate this new piece of plain-speaking ...”
2 comments 22
Death of the Scottish press
“Tim Luckhurst paints a depressing picture of the Scottish quality press in today's Independent on ...”
2 comments 18
Calling it as your readers would
“Here's a gem from the Paisley Daily Express. You'll want to read the whole thing, ...”
13 comments 06
Friday afternoon school assembly humour
“Songs of Praise, with subtitles.”
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The iPhone strategy rolls out
“Sorry to bang on (OK - not really) but we're seeing Apple's iPhone strategy play ...”
2 comments
BA's crisis with crisis management
“I quite like flying BA, mainly from my experiences on the Edinburgh to London shuttle ...”
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iPhone-ology in today's Guardian
“Today, recycling Sunday's blog post for fun and profit, I've done a wee bit more ...”
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Alan Johnston
“Good morning - we're all waking up to some (rare) good news from the Middle ...”
1 comments 01
iPhone: but what does it all *mean*?
“As a million bloggers soil themselves in excitement over the iPhone (yes, I'm only bitter ...”
11 comments | Jun 23
Appeal of the unfashionable Cotswolds
“We once lived in Swindon, of course, which makes anywhere in the world that's unfashionable ...”
1 comments 21
Britain's most connected civil servant
“Hammersley's signed up with the state broadcaster for his latest escapade, but he's offering up ...”
3 comments 11
The 50,000th edition of the Guardian*
“From Alan Rusbridger's piece commemorating the paper's milestone:"In our times news is as saleable and ...”
2 comments | May 31
Bullet points in lieu of a blog post, for 31 May 2007
“Martin Belam's been doing all manner of stat analysis on RSS readership of blogs as ...”
3 comments 20
The business we're in
“Among business school strategy lecturers, it turns out, there's a favourite way to kick off ...”
6 comments 16
Hampden's greatest goal...
2 comments
A weekend in Barcelona, and some winning doorbells
“Ben Hammersley is putting last weekend best:"30 hours later, we found a place with a ...”
1 comments 10
A new front page for Guardian Unlimited
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Is Scotland really voting Nationalist?
“In the Scottish elections today, suspicions are the country will back the pro-independence Scottish National ...”
3 comments 01
We've won a webby!
“It's a happy day at work... we've won our third Webby, for the best newspaper ...”
8 comments | Apr 24
All hail the ZX Spectrum, 25 this month
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Friday video fun: Messi vs Maradona
“We get efforts like this down at the County Ground all the time, natch, but ...”
3 comments 12
A word about my RSS feed...
“The subscriber to my RSS feed will have noted they're now getting the full, non-lite, ...”
7 comments 10
Webby awards: and the nominations are...
“Update: do, please, vote for us!
We are, predictably, delighted and oh-so-slightly smug to learn of ...”
3 comments
This Blogger's Code of Conduct
“God preserve us from the Well Intentioned (WI). In the wake of the shocking Kathy ...”
6 comments 07
Technorati's CEO search
“Technorati, the blog search engine, is searching for a new CEO... I guess it would ...”
2 comments | Mar 28
Italy vs Scotland, chez Tosh
“Mrs Tosh, making a rare midweek appearance at home, is in uncompromising mood during the ...”
1 comments 26
Wanted: video and audio ninjas
“[Updated! Now with working interweb links! Thanks to m'colleague Nik Silver]
I'm pleased to report this ...”
7 comments 20
Twitter: a modest prediction
6 comments
Kelner's just not listening to the right people
“Simon Kelner, interviewed in MediaGuardian this week, carefully maintains a near Luddite position on his ...”
2 comments 16
Video on the net
“I see the weather's closing in... so I'm off to California. San Francisco through the ...”
2 comments 13
Don't sweat on syndication?
“Stuart Brown asks: why is RSS adoption so abysmal amongst UK newspapers online? I think ...”
12 comments 12
Londonist's look inside the new Guardian HQ
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Twitter crosses the tuna chasm
“Ross Mayfield offers an insightful analysis of Twitter's growth. [Twitter is the service that lets ...”
8 comments 08
Notes for 8 March 2007
“1. £15m of good news for the Guardian, following on from more of it earlier ...”
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Virgin and BSkyB lock horns; nobody wins
“The squabble between BSkyB and Virgin Media - aka NTL/Telewest
- is entertaining, even if one ...”
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"Green" motor racing: some figures
“Friends of the Earth come up with some numbers on that "green" Honda racing car ...”
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Beyond parody
“Confirmation today that a "green" marketing strategy can be applied to anything. Honda Racing - ...”
4 comments 18
BMW ad
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Supply and demands
“The global logistics business is truly a wonder of our age, the engine room of ...”
4 comments 15
Citizen journalism isn't a panacea
“For a business so young, digital journalism sure has some hoary old shibboleths. Yesterday I ...”
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Telegraph gets touchy about Comment is free
“The Daily Telegraph's Shane Richmond is unhappy that the Guardian calls Comment is free (Cif) ...”
5 comments 09
Keeping good company
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Bird flu exclusive on a Thursday, from a Sunday
“Slightly inside baseball, this, but an interesting moment tonight for the hardcore media watchers out ...”
Grand alliance?
“G2 ran a fascinating set of pieces today on the state of the union between ...”
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Commute envy
“Sigh. Here's my commute, written up in today's "I'm a commuter, get me out of ...”
4 comments 01
Ramsay and the tyranny of the critic
“A highlight of a recent trip to New York was eating at Gordon Ramsay's new ...”
2 comments | Jan 30
On the Telegraph's traffic claims
“Since you asked. Or maybe you didn't.
Simon Waldman: Britain's number one quality newspaper website. ...”
1 comments 26
Smoke and mirrors
“Banging the blog drum, Gordon Brown tells Davos: "The age of the smoke-filled room is ...”
1 comments 25
Third degree burns
6 comments
22 15
BoJo's video 101
“Guardian technology reporter Bobbie Johnson's been doing a fantastic solo job covering the CES and ...”
2 comments 10
Join us
“We're expanding, lots. If you're a talented techy, come join us.”
3 comments
Two lovely links
“This is really rather beautiful. Via hotlinks.
Meanwhile, James Lileks made me laugh today - please, ...”
3 comments 09
Apple's new iPhone
“Tonight, I am mostly blogging over here on Apple's shiny new iPhone.”
3 comments 08
Online news video
“Andy Dickinson rounds up UK newspapers' online video efforts. He's more impressed by the regionals ...”
1 comments 07
Five things you don't know about me
“Both my brother and Martin Stabe tagged me on this while I was experimenting with ...”
8 comments 06
Oh what can it be...
“It's FA Cup Third Round weekend and, ahead of the mighty Town taking on Palace ...”
5 comments
Getting beyond blogs
“[Welcome, trickle of Telegraph readers! You might be interested in my response to the post ...”
1 comments |
2006 | Dec 21
I love sprouts
“...but I still love this game* [thanks Sasha!] if only for the wonderful reworking of ...”
1 comments 04
The mysteries of cricket
“At a previous job, where one of my responsibilities was duty editing sports pages, I ...”
4 comments | Nov 30
Back to the USSR
“It is already a hopeless cliche to note that the poisoning of former KGB spy ...”
1 comments 28
Broken blog
“It seems entry pages and subject archives are broken - the pages have vanished. I've ...”
Whacking the Union
“David Cox has written a provocative piece on the state of the United Kingdom. With ...”
1 comments 27
Death of Press Gazette is a glimpse of the future
“I was very sorry to hear of the Press Gazette's closure. Guardian Unlimited - through ...”
23
Social media froth
“This is the problem with keeping a blog... stop writing, and people think you've either ...”
14
Beers and innovation
“A worthy combination, if ever there was one. And I'm chairing the NMK event of ...”
1 comments 07
The future of journalism: archaeology
“Hats off to Steve Yelvington, who comes up with an enormously interesting post on the ...”
1 comments 04
Talking Tosh
“Ahead of next weekend's Podcastcon, where I'm sitting on a citizen journalism panel, I was ...”
02
A home networking solution I understand
“Charles has a fascinating piece in today's Technology section on a mains networking system called ...”
2 comments | Oct 30
Gervais back on Guardian Unlimited
“Ricky Gervais, who blew Guardian Unlimited into the podcast world a year or so ago, ...”
3 comments 28
YouTube's death by a thousand cuts
“As a consumer, it's faintly depressing to see Comedy Central insist that Daily Show clips ...”
4 comments 26
New job
“I'm jolly excited: after two and a half years explaining to people what, exactly, an ...”
13 comments 23
LA Times: I'm confused
2 comments
15
Canada troops battle 10-foot Afghan marijuana plants
“Sure they were ten feet tall. Hoookay. Rilly.”
2 comments
Philips pain episode IV
“In the latest gripping episode of my TV heartache, you'll be enthralled to learn that ...”
4 comments 11
The neighbours stop renting
“Interesting to see my neighbours, Crystal Palace, have managed to buy their home.
I hear that ...”
10
My favourite comment of the week, so far
“We get huge numbers of comments across Guardian Unlimited's blogs these days and - contrary, ...”
1 comments 09
Philips pain episode III
“It was, I guess, almost inevitable that after last week's hassles trying to get Philips ...”
1 comments 07
Scotland 1 France 0
6 comments
06
What does a deal with Microsoft mean?
“Does a deal with Microsoft signify some kind of corporate malaise? A mid-life crisis - ...”
1 comments 05
Philips pain episode II
“Thanks, all, for your moral support after episode one, where I told of my difficulty ...”
03
Philips - more classic tech company customer service
“The worst examples of customer service I've ever suffered have been at the hands of ...”
6 comments 02
Ah, how I love Scottish football
2 comments
01
Why is Phil Collins so unpopular?
8 comments
| Sep 30
Charles finally gets his InDesign
“I laughed when I saw this post from Charles. All true, although I'm afraid, Charles, ...”
27
Is that really Musharraf on the Daily Show?
2 comments
What's wrong with the Scottish media?
1 comments
24
Thought for the day: innovation
“Sage advice from Steve Yelvington:
The guys from Innosight often advise us to separate innovative projects ...”
3 comments 22
Why I delete more blog posts than I publish
“Over here, Euan Semple welcomes Richard Sambrook, the BBC's Director of Global News, to the ...”
4 comments 18
Reverse spin
“Something new on Guardian Unlimited today... 360-degree photographs by Guardian photographer Dan Chung, with audio ...”
2 comments 17
Islam vs Christianity
1 comments
05
The trouble with BBC TV news
“Respected former TV journalist (and ex-MP) Martin Bell uses Comment is free today to launch ...”
7 comments | Aug 28
Wanted: podcast producers
“Here's a job for the 21st century: we need two podcast producers. Do come join ...”
2 comments 14
Mixed message?
6 comments
09
Divided loyalties
“It is, I imagine, a bit like having an affair. An evening off, Mrs Tosh ...”
5 comments 04
How to break KitKats
“I've stumbled across this fascinating piece about how Nestle has completely messed up the nation's ...”
5 comments 02
Trying to stop talking about it, and failing
“While, once, reading fucking lame pieces about blogs, blogging or bloggers and its/their relationship with ...”
3 comments | Jul 05
Networked journalism it is
“Jeff Jarvis comes up with a replacement term for citizen journalism - "Networked journalism". It ...”
3 comments | Jun 07
Posing again
2 comments
06
The weird world of the book reading
“To Foyles tonight, to see Mark Billingham and Chris Brookmyre talk about their new books, ...”
2 comments | May 26
Al Gore, live on Guardian Unlimited
“Here's an experiment... we're doing live, streamed coverage of former vice president Al Gore speaking ...”
25
Where the stars come out
“You know it's a good day when you've got Pele on the podcast and Bono ...”
2 comments 16
On holiday
“If posting here could be any more sporadic, it will become so over the next ...”
2 comments 09
Guardian Unlimited wins another webby
“Proving the first one wasn't a fluke, at least, we were delighted to learn we've ...”
1 comments | Apr 27
The snail, the snail!
“Tom Coates is back on form and - in the wake of the BBC's All ...”
2 comments 25
The "fuzzy front end" of innovation
“This last bit of the MBA is, like many, heavy on heavy models and theoretical ...”
1 comments 24
MySpace as a click factory?
“Mike Davidson has been doing some fascinating work on Myspace in recent weeks. First, the ...”
2 comments
Struggling with spam
“Sorry to those who had their comments held in a queue for moderation... this was ...”
1 comments 23
Down
“The depressing thing about relegation is that it's not actually as devastating as you might ...”
1 comments 19
We're all technology managers now
“Interesting stuff to report from the last bit of my MBA, which I'm revising this ...”
3 comments 01
This is an April fool, right? Oh.
“Probably not, as it turns out. In yet another example of how US big media ...”
2 comments | Mar 26
What does the Guardian sound like?
2 comments
20
Planet Hearts
4 comments
14
Launch day
2 comments
12
Football stars of yesteryear
“We hope to move house soon. The toil began today, shifting some books into boxes, ...”
2 comments 11
Guilty pleasures
“Alexis Petridis has a fascinating piece in the G on the resurgence of soft rock, ...”
10 09
"Disable comments 90% of the time"
“May I just break radio silence long enough to note an interesting post by Jeremy ...”
3 comments 01
We asked for the Apple media centre...
“we got something that looks a bit like one of those pre-Macworld Photoshop mockups stuck ...”
1 comments
Ginny finds a decent photographer, at last
1 comments
| Feb 28
New world, new life
“Euan Semple writes probably my favourite blog post of the year so far. Maybe one ...”
27
The NUJ debate rumbles on, slowly
“The arrival of the NUJ's monthly magazine, Journalist, has sparked further debate on the union's ...”
5 comments 26
In print
“Couple of things in the paper over the last three days... on Friday, something on ...”
14
Community is mass market
“
Robin @ cybersoc notes:
"Recently published research by Nielsen/NetRatings suggest that over half the UK internet ...”
11
Keeping things civil
“I'm writing in the paper today about keeping weblog comments civil.”
3 comments
My Flickr foodblog
2 comments
09
Bad design: not the secret of their success
“Here's an incendiary post from US designer Andy Rutledge, who argues forcefully that the success ...”
5 comments 05 02
The project
3 comments
| Jan 31
Keeping an eye on Andres
“If the nearest thing I know to crack cocaine - Football Manager - is to ...”
1 comments
More witless contributions from the NUJ
“Guardian Unlimited's editor, Emily Bell, chipped in with her commentary on the NUJ's Witness Contributors' ...”
3 comments 28
NUJ's witless contributions
“You'll know I'm not a fan of much of the cack that surrounds citizen journalism. ...”
14 comments 25
My, how whizzy things are (pt 27,843)
“Apologies for extended silences here; similar to last year, I've been pursuing an important strategic ...”
5 comments 09 08
(insert cup cliche here)
“Sometimes the beautiful game is simply divine.
Clyde 2, Celtic 1 in the Scottish Cup? In ...”
2 comments 05
Cruel and unusual punishment
“
The US newspaper industry doesn't half make life difficult for itself, what with all those ...”
1 comments 04
Overaggregated, overwhelmed, bored
“
I've been saying for a while that RSS poses problems for publishers, and that users ...”
1 comments
Life imitates the Onion, pt 2567
“Here's a late candidate for most Onion-like real story of 2005: over Christmas a would-be ...”
03
End of the (Voip) line
“[A little earlier:]Completetosh: "Well, my prediction would be that..."
Presenter: "Oh... we seem to have lost ...”
1 comments |
2005 | Dec 27
You'll never walk alone*
“Alan Hansen, BBC Sport Online, Christmas Eve, 2005:
"Michael Owen makes his return to Liverpool with ...”
1 comments 22
DNA-mutating nut fungus
“I'm pleased to note my 2003 post on a nasty form of nut fungus is ...”
My dotcom predictions for 2006
“Developed in conjunction with Matt McAlister's Dotcom prediction generator:
"Last year I made several predctions ...”
1 comments 21
Big media, wikis, and lots of wikiwaffle
“Steve Outing offers up a very insightful Stop the Presses column, presenting nine New Year's ...”
1 comments 19
A proud history, an uncertain future
7 comments
17
A good vet in south London
“Sometimes, a post isn't really for visitors right now (sorry). It's for the Google bots ...”
06
Good and bad
“Good thing: the term podcasting, coined by Ben Hammersley in the pages of Online only ...”
05
Ricky's top of the pods
3 comments
At Les Blogs
“And posting here at the moment.”
3 comments 04
On French football
1 comments
01
Lap dance
“Thanks to Di for sending me a link to Lap Dance, which seems to be ...”
| Nov 30
I'm off to see the engines
“Seeing a picture on my mother's blog (truly, we're turning into the Von Trapps of ...”
4 comments 29
Designed to death
“
I'm not sure if it's fitting and inevitable, or shocking and embarrassing, but the Design ...”
2 comments 28
Gervais joins GU
“It's all very exciting... Ricky Gervais, comic genius behind The Office and Extras, is to ...”
2 comments 25
The perils of a public email address
“
It's not just spam... it's hate, too. Guardian cartoonist Martin Rowson writes:
"I was quite surprised ...”
1 comments 20
Blog posts! In a book!
“Am back from the high seas. Lots of pix on Flickr, and some new books ...”
1 comments 09
Sonic weapons: from comic book to reality
“
The attempted hijacking of a cruise ship last weekend provoked plenty of interest chez Tosh ...”
3 comments 07
The world's worst airline
3 comments
01
The scourge of silent callers
“Bobbie's written an interesting post on technologyblog about "silent calls", and how Ofcom plans to ...”
4 comments | Oct 30
London tonight
4 comments
25
Whas like us? Gie few an thur aw deed (or dying)
“I'm not sure what left me more surprised from this story in today's Guardian on ...”
3 comments 23
Finding a podcast is hard to do
“Podcasts. Fascinated by them, of course, but I'm running into their fundamental problem: you can't ...”
4 comments 21
Old failures, repackaged
“Vin Crosbie delivers a punchy challenge to members of the Online News Association gathering in ...”
3 comments 20
Carroll freed
“Further to yesterday's post, some wonderful news tonight.
Rory Carroll, the Guardian journalist kidnapped in Baghdad ...”
19
The Guardian's Rory Carroll
“The Guardian today confirmed that its Baghdad correspondent Rory Carroll, an Irish citizen, is missing, ...”
13
And suddenly...
“the future arrived.”
12
Beeb on the Cillit Bang episode
“The BBC News Online "magazine" writes up the Cillit Bang episode, as first seen on ...”
Making music
“Interesting piece on the production of pop music in yesterday's G, built around the imminent ...”
4 comments 08
Best team, best publisher
“Guardian Unlimited had a very good night at the UK Association of Online Publishers annual ...”
2 comments 07
Ad world: here's a clue
“I've been meaning to write something on the "research" published last week on the public's ...”
3 comments
Paying as you drive
“Sat at home with the lurgy, you don't half read some odd things. But I'm ...”
3 comments 04
When viral marketing goes terribly wrong
“Do you know Barry Scott?
If you watch a bit of UK telly, you may recall ...”
5 comments 03
Ticket prices? They're too low
“An interesting counter-charge against the ongoing press-led rebellion from Simon Jordan, Crystal Palace chairman. He ...”
3 comments | Sep 20
Charging for comment
“On the Editors' weblog, the director of the World Editors' Forum, Bertrand Pecquerie, writes..."I consider ...”
12 comments 18
Judging the student media awards
1 comments
The cost of football
“Ticket prices for one adult ticket, plus one child, for the next home game from ...”
1 comments 13 09
Farewell to the broadsheet
“The future arrives on Monday. And it even looks good on TV.”
6 comments 08
Gadgets, gadgets, everywhere
“Keith Stuart hits the nail on the head over on our Gamesblog. Namely: in a ...”
1 comments
Press Gazette on the new Guardian
“More pre-launch stuff on the new Guardian, which appears on Monday. This time, from Press ...”
1 comments 04
Katrina's political impact
“It's only a week since I was expressing surprise that the BBC was burying the ...”
2 comments 02
Unprepared
“It's clear we don't yet know the scale of the disaster to hit the Gulf ...”
2 comments 01
Guardian names the day
“And it's all terribly exciting.”
3 comments | Aug 28
Cruel Katrina
2 comments
25
On Google, and a Technorati footnote
“Two things today: first, I'm writing (for the first time in a while) in print ...”
3 comments 21
Technorati jumps the shark
“Now here's an interesting post.
Jason Kottke, as a-list as bloggers come, gets stuck into ...”
9 comments 19
Arrogant Google?
“Jeff Jarvis notes that Google is selling shares to raise $4bn, and wonders what it’s ...”
1 comments 18
Akami's web traffic barometer
“Akamai has launched a web traffic report that shows real-time usage patterns for news websites ...”
14
More entertaining than Big Brother itself...
“was Anna Pickard's minute-by-minute blogging of the final night, with personal favourite bits including:
9:07pm
"Here ...”
4 comments 12
The PDA: Struggling, or thriving?
“Probably the most controversial technology piece I've ever written was a feature for the G2 ...”
08
Jarvis in the Guardian
“Delighted to see Jeff Jarvis writing in MediaGuardian today (free reg reqd) - he's one ...”
2 comments 03
Living in the future
“Us chaps finally have something to compare to childbirth - swapping our broadband providers. Just ...”
2 comments 01
The sensational sound of Completetosh.mp3
“Note to accompany this post: the following may loosely be defined as "satire", depending on ...”
3 comments | Jul 30
Sing and you're winning
“From the DC United vs Chelsea match report, in today's G:
"The Premiership champions had coasted ...”
28
Cheer up, Gordon
“In an oddly good mood today. While investigations into this unusual state of affairs continue, ...”
2 comments 26
Oh really?
“Sir Tony O'Reilly held forth in the Sydney Morning Herald on Saturday, in an interview ...”
2 comments
When technology goes too far
“Rafael Behr, of Observer blog fame, wrote an artful wee piece on tech etiquette for ...”
3 comments 25
Let's forget about citizen journalism
“M'colleague Jane Perrone has written an excellent post on Newsblog about a piece of commentary ...”
11 comments 22
New hope in the debate about terror
“In the last couple of days, the level of post July 7 debate has shown ...”
18
More on going slow
“Nik, in the comments, wasn't far off, you know. This whole "rest stop" thing really ...”
1 comments 17
What I did on my holidays
7 comments
13
Hold the bandwagon?
“Over at Morph, the Media Center blog, Terry Heaton is feeling it's time for a ...”
2 comments 07
You will fail
1 comments
Safe
“We're safe, at work, but all thoughts are with those who are not, and ...”
3 comments 06
Now that's how to travel
“These global leaders may be a nasty cabal sitting on their hands doing not enough ...”
1 comments | Jun 28
All hail the New Geek
“
Occasionally, I blog for a living. Today is such a day. I'm writing on Newsblog ...”
1 comments
Quote of the day
“
From the President of the FIA, the organisation that runs Formula 1, in a Guardian ...”
26
Oxdown axe shocker
“
Oxdown was said to be in shock today after journalism training chiefs revealed the fictional ...”
1 comments 22
Wikis won't work
“Dan Gillmor, arguably the father of the young citizen journalism movement, is arguing the LA ...”
19 17
What's wrong with a weekend in Swindon?
“I'm horrified to see, via our own Newsblog, that Swindon has been included in the ...”
5 comments 16 11
I'd retire now, frankly
“Despite delivering in what I'm presuming is his utilikilt, Hammersley's garnering serious praise for his ...”
10
Madness of the Google bubble
“
Good piece by Nils Pratley in today's paper on the madness of the Google share ...”
Victory for NTL prankster
“
Life has very few certainties, but I have one: I will never, ever be a ...”
2 comments 09
The trouble with RSS
“RSS gets me into terrible trouble, you know. At blog socials, like Tuesday night's very ...”
8 comments 08
What a swell party that was
“
Thanks to Hugh for organising the rather wonderful geek dinner on Tuesday night. These affairs ...”
Paper rituals
“
I might have swapped ink for bits these days, but occasionally a little glimpse of ...”
06
Here's the future of storytelling
8 comments
04
Apple to switch to Intel?
“Either News.com has taken a flyer of historic proportions, or they've got a great exclusive ...”
03
For the love of pod
“
Charles Arthur is in entertaining form over at the New Statesman where he takes a ...”
1 comments 02
Kill the Euro
“Oof. A blog post doesn't need to be long to be effective. Larry Elliot, the ...”
| May 24
Comments don't scale?
“From Editor and Publisher: a cautionary tale about what happens when comments facilities are stuck ...”
4 comments 23
Are we short of big ideas?
“Peter Watson, writing in yesterday's Observer, feels innovation isn't what it used to be. Although ...”
2 comments 21
My song for Europe
“In the spirit of tonight's inspirational Eurovision Song Contest, which m'colleague Anna Pickard is live-blogging ...”
4 comments 20 17
New myths of new media
“I always feel it's a tad cheap to get an entire blog post out of ...”
4 comments 14
How good can come of Glazer
“I feel sorry - really, genuinely sorry - for Manchester United fans who are having ...”
06 03
Guardian Unlimited wins Webby
“Guardian Unlimited has won a Webby for best newspaper on the web. As Sheila says ...”
3 comments
Sony's Librie edges closer
“Jason Kottke raves about the Sony Librie - the epaper device that's the most hype-worthy ...”
1 comments 01
Silence of the bloggers
“Over on perfect.co.uk, Robin Grant does the unthinkable and acknowledges that my GU colleague, Ros ...”
14 comments
Today I shall mostly be watching progress bars
“There's a certain irony - I think that's the word - in my iMac choosing ...”
2 comments | Apr 26
Back from Les Blogs
“Back from a very interesting, intense 48 hours in Paris. Les Blogs was well worth ...”
4 comments 22
At the hairdressers
“Breaking the hard slog of prep for both an MBA exam on Wednesday and talking ...”
2 comments 20
You sick, sick pups
3 comments
19
Tonight's big news
“I've been blogging in a professional capacity tonight, about the election of the new Pope ...”
17
He is, he says, the ghost of old Labour. You mean, you’re dead?
“In the Sunday Times, AA Gill writes up his time with "the Napoleon of Bethnal ...”
16
Scotland finds a striker
“Wonderful news this week for those of us in that most un-crowded of demographics: Swindon ...”
10
Pause - for thought!
“A modestly telling televisual moment today: on Adam Boulton's show on Sky News this morning ...”
1 comments 04
Our election blog goes live
“Unveiling Guardian Unlimited's latest blog: Election 2005. Yes, while Tony Blair has decided to hold ...”
1 comments | Mar 31
Online on form
“This is a little incestuous, and worthy of the OBN, but forgive me: I loved ...”
Cool things
2 comments
30
Tales of the underworld
“A delightful piece about London's sewers in today's G, written by Blake Morrison. And I ...”
1 comments
Farewell to the phone books
“Phone books have always fascinated me. When I was small I used to enjoy leafing ...”
4 comments 26
Google news sources revealed (but not by Google)
“How interesting. Since Google refuses to say which news sources power its Google News service, ...”
25
Blogs in action
3 comments
24
The truth about Google News
“In the spirit of dangerous Simon Waldman's brave contention that - actually - Wikinews isn't ...”
3 comments 22
Ten technologies to blow your 1995 mind
“Yesterday I mentioned that all this fuss about Yahoo and Flickr would, simply, have been ...”
1 comments 21
AOL's new direction, and mobile content
“Although Yahoo! gets all the buzz today, Mike Butcher's piece over at Netimperative about AOL's ...”
More Flickr buzz
“There's been plenty of talk overnight on that Yahoo!/Flickr deal (and there's a phrase that ...”
20
Yahoo! buys Flickr
“Well, that didn't take long - the long-running rumour that wily portal giant Yahoo! has ...”
1 comments 15
NYT on charging - and its own plans
“A lengthy piece in Monday's New York Times on charging for content. Other papers are ...”
1 comments 14
We. Own. It. All.
“Via the online-news mailing list comes this vignette, from AOL's instant message service terms and ...”
13
On the panel at Blogs in Action
“Alistair Shrimpton at SixApart's been busy with the company's first London conference on the uses ...”
12
Sun and (lots of) sand
1 comments
04
What I want next in iTunes
“Observer blog is going well, judging by the plaudits Rafael's racking up - a particularly ...”
6 comments 03
NY Times' archive plans
“The ever-perceptive David Weinberger has a very interesting post on the New York Times' plans ...”
1 comments 01
The fall and fall of journalism
“Despite the slightly gloomy title of the event, it sounds like last night's event at ...”
3 comments | Feb 27
Wraps off the Observer blog
5 comments
24 23
Hurrah!
“Congratulations to the Guardian Online team, which gets several mentions in the shortlists for the ...”
22
One day, all the web will be like this
“(or, at least, all the best bits of the web will be like this)
If you've ...”
1 comments 21
McKinsey? Oh dear...
“Vin Crosbie over at Digital Deliverance casts a critical eye over reports that News International ...”
3 comments 20
Seduced by the bright lights, again
1 comments
18
Labour's new grotesque chaos
“In 1985, in one of his finest speeches, Neil Kinnock took to the podium at ...”
NYT buys About.com
“The New York Times finally buys About.com for a handsome $410m in cash - and ...”
1 comments 17
Is Ken right to stand up to the Mail?
“Albert Scardino has an interesting piece in today's paper, arguing that maybe London mayor Ken ...”
2 comments 16
Dumb and dumber
“Two bits of splendidly dumb old media thinking knocking around today. First, there's news of ...”
2 comments
More on Eason Jordan
“Gary Younge writes up the Eason Jordan affair in this morning's Guardian."Jordan's demise may be
much ...”
15
All aboard the bloodthirsty bandwagon
“Hmm - I briefly put live a lengthy post about the resignation of Eason Jordan, ...”
2 comments 10
Charles, Camilla, and Tony
“On this Glorious Day In The Life Of Our Nation, the nation is, of course, ...”
5 comments 08
The things you learn
“My earlier moans about flights "with" BA have led me to an interesting discussion over ...”
07
Still in a pre-Google world
“Here's an interesting excerpt from a book by Peter Hyman, former advisor and chief speechwriter ...”
4 comments 04 03
State of the Union's press
1 comments
Debt reduction, born again
2 comments
| Jan 31
Liiive, from St Petersburg, Fl
“Now, happily, installed in St Petersburg, Florida, and all set for a day of musing ...”
1 comments 29
You're going nowhere.
“Gatwick, 1330.
I saw it the moment they wheeled out British Airway’s Gatwick Duty Officer (customer ...”
3 comments
Right. I'm off
“I'm pointed west, to St Petersburg in Florida, for the Web+10 doo at Poynter. A ...”
27
Poker pays
“
If you've ever wondered how all those internet casinos you see advertised around the place ...”
1 comments
The proper Bloggie post
“The slightly up-and-down nature of the Bloggies server meant that, initially, I couldn't properly comb ...”
1 comments 25
Mini mac good for a million things
“If you're in the tech biz, there are probably a few ways to measure success. ...”
24
Times: Google set to challenge BT
“A curious story in today's Times: the paper says Google is ready to take on ...”
2 comments
Bloggies
“I'm pleased to note that January's "one-post-a-week" strategy for Completetosh paid off; that near-inevitable Bloggies ...”
2 comments 23
A glimpse into the darker recesses of my listening habits
“Doing an online tax return, so need something to calm the nerves. So... er... Smoothjazz.com ...”
2 comments 17
Creativity. Mains electricity. Powertools. Mmm...
“New from O'Reilly: Home Hacking Projects for Geeks"Farnham, UK--Take a geek and a PC, add ...”
1 comments
Power play
“
The Wall Street Journal (sub required) reports today on an ugly little trick being played ...”
4 comments 14
Apple: hit after hit
“
When it comes to Apple, forgive me if I say: told you so. After a ...”
13
Listening to the Christian Voice
“
Jeff Jarvis warns that England is turning into a "red state" (as in: American midwest, ...”
4 comments 06
Paper sizes
“Jonathan Calder at Liberalengland writes"The Independent no longer gives the impression that it thinks
for ...”
2 comments
Confirmed: Six Apart buys LiveJournal
“A press release confirms Om Malik's exclusive, mentioned here earlier. A couple of paragraphs allude ...”
SixApart and LiveJournal
“Om Malik has the skinny on TypePad and Movable Type maker SixApart snapping up LiveJournal, ...”
2 comments 05
iWork, and other Apple rumours
“For the first time in five years, I'm not off to San Francisco and MacExpo ...”
1 comments 03
A humble pioneer speaks
“Our first trip of the year takes us across the pond, to somewhere in the ...”
6 comments |
2004 | Dec 29
Blogging a disaster
“I'll be doing most of my blogging over here for the next few days, as ...”
27
A little good news
“Thank goodness for good luck, and for blogs.
Thanks to the luck: our friends Adrian and ...”
25
A very merry Christmas
“"So this is Christmas," they sang, and today they're right. Not the easiest of run-ups ...”
3 comments 19
Incomplete Tosh
“A variety of reasons have conspired to keep me away from my beloved blogging tools ...”
2 comments 14
Healthy eating in Scotland
“You can almost feel the rising panic among English parents today as they read in ...”
5 comments
tBBC's blogging bootcamp for journalists
“Having recently enjoyed lunch with them, I can tell you first hand the Big Blog ...”
1 comments 13
Gillmor talks to OhmyNews
“Who else would he give an interview to? The South Korean citizen journalist operation catches ...”
12
Let's go back - way back
1 comments
10
Gillmor quits for "personal project"
“Dan Gillmor has taken the plunge, and decided to give up possibly the widest roving ...”
08
Ritz roulette gang keep their winnings
“Someone should really use this as the basis for a film. From the Times, via ...”
Soviet-style broadband
“More than half of UK net users might now have broadband, but it's still not ...”
3 comments 06
Not celebrating, shrieking
“This tale, as recounted with almost too much relish by the wonderful Fiver, is only ...”
1 comments
Observer magazine: new kids on the blog
“Another Sunday, another story on blogs in the heavies. This time it's the Observer's turn ...”
03
Buggy, buggy Football Manager
“You may have caught my moan in Online yesterday about Football Manager's many bugs. Tomorrow ...”
3 comments 01
Apple's iPhenomenon
“I've been guilty recently of moaning about Apple's apparent built-in inability to stock enough of ...”
2 comments | Nov 28
Running men (and women)
2 comments
IoS on charging for content
“The Indie on Sunday has a piece today on the old advertising vs subscription content ...”
1 comments 25
The devil finds work for idle hands
“Note to self: when bored of an evening, when the telly's crap and Lovefilm.com is ...”
3 comments 23
Blog post makes the front page
3 comments
22
Popbitch founder on weblogs
“Speaking to a group of journalism students soon, and so will be asking them if ...”
6 comments
What were you like at 19?
“Following Wayne Rooney's petulant display midweek for England - a strop that could hardly been ...”
21
Britain's micro publishing nano boom
“As recently as the summer, nanopublishing was pretty much a US game. They’ve had the ...”
4 comments 19
Apple Store opening: a video nasty
7 comments
18
How I entered the porn business
“Interesting things happen when you allow your domain name to expire. Take an old, pre-blog ...”
6 comments 15
Faces of the fallen
“A remarkable interactive graphic featuring the names, details and faces of all the members of ...”
1 comments
Tyranny of the few - Jeff's blog exclusive
“Great bit of blog journalism over at Buzzmachine:
With not much original reporting, I discovered that ...”
13
The redemption of David Duke
“A salute is in order, tonight, to a young footballer you've never heard of. Here's ...”
4 comments 12
Oh for goodness sake
“Gadgets.co.uk? You're doing a great job, guys.
"Hello
Thank you for your recent order.
Unfortunately, one of the ...”
09
Introducing... Sara Bareilles
“Time, I thought, to rescue the music category from the horrors of 80s kitsch, and ...”
1 comments
Fuck the South
“Reads a lot like the emails I get at work - only this is against ...”
1 comments 07 06
Well, that could have gone better
1 comments
02
Pay what you think it's worth
“Peter A Rossi writes of a London neighbourhood restaurant that invites customers to pay only ...”
1 comments
Sleep displacement
“I'm staying up late, by way of training for election night, surfing the web and ...”
3 comments
More on America's "lost" mobile generation
“Well, I daresay we'll see - in around 24 hours - if they've really been ...”
1 comments | Oct 31
Cellphones, Osama and the election riddle
“
It seemed like this Sunday, of all Sundays ever, was the time to settle down ...”
1 comments 30
It comes down to trust
“Ken Layne links to yesterday's Washington Post White House briefing (free reg reqd) that, he ...”
1 comments 28
Getting ready for election night
“We're gearing up for election night at Guardian Unlimited. Detailed plans for the evening now ...”
1 comments 26
Newsblog on the death of John Peel
“I've read a lot today on the sad news of John Peel's death. He always ...”
Wikinews, anyone?
“First, there was Wikipedia - the volunteer-powered encyclopedia that is "about as far from the ...”
1 comments 25
Reality overload
“New York University professor Jay Rosen talks to a BBC reporter about "everything happening in ...”
23
Stats fun on a wet afternoon
“It's pouring outside so, before we head out for the evening, there's time to fix ...”
3 comments 20
Why rising oil prices matter
“Lovely piece by Ken Layne - one of the best writers in blogdom, IMHO - ...”
18
New York Times backs Kerry
“The New York Times endorsement of John Kerry, in yesterday's leader, is a powerful read, ...”
Missing the point?
“The latest PR wheeze from two British trade unions - Amicus and the National Union ...”
1 comments 17
Googlesoft?
“Google's move onto the desktop, with its new desktop search, has been heralded by some ...”
Retropod shut down by Sony
“For the last few months John Young, aka Retropod, has made entertaining iPod covers from ...”
12
How the NYT ended up a bully
“At risk of looking like I only read one other blog, Jeff Jarvis has the ...”
4 comments 11
Competition time
3 comments
10 09
Scared and confused
“For fellow Europeans wondering how - on earth - any American could contemplate voting for ...”
1 comments 06
Blogger founder quits
“Via Onlineblog: Evan Williams, co-founder of Blogger company Pyra, is leaving his baby on Friday ...”
Lunch with Loic
“Lunch with SixApart's European supremo Loic Le Meur wouldn't be complete without him moblogging you. ...”
05
The seven deadly sins for new products
“With the start of the next MBA module only weeks away, it's time to get ...”
04
One for you, Hammersley
“I suspect the press release below should have gone to Ben Hammersley, rather than me. ...”
1 comments 03
Catching up
1 comments
| Sep 24
Washed up by the tide of spam (2)
“Or: Why I'm being invited to get into lingerie
"Dear Neil,
My Web site is about lingerie ...”
1 comments 22
Sorkin's West Wing dry run
“From the wisecracks to the hurried conversations through White House corridors, to the (Democrat) President ...”
Newsblog's baptism
“The BBC's Tom Coates writes of Guardian Unlimited's blogs: "Is it just me or are ...”
1 comments 21 17
New at GU: Newsblog
“Guardian Unlimited's had a weblog since the summer of 2001, and today we unveil the ...”
2 comments
Washed up by the tide of spam (1)
4 comments
16
Hoggart on the crack tailcoats team
“My favourite piece from today's news pages is Simon Hoggart's sketch on the Commons invasion ...”
15
From tech to chef
“It's an admirable move, but one that reads like it's right out a Douglas Coupland ...”
3 comments 14
Anti-piracy PR debate at the Newsroom
“Had an enjoyable evening last night at the Musically/Guardian debate on PR strategies to beat ...”
1 comments 10
New at Unlimited: The Guide(blog)
“The blog revolution continues apace at Guardian Unlimited. For the first time, our very popular ...”
1 comments 08
The real underground cinema
“This story is sure to get blogged to within a inch of its life today, ...”
2 comments 07
Damned populism
“Pengiun has come up with the great idea of releasing a series of 20 paperbacks ...”
1 comments 06
Why RSS feed readers suck
“Over at E-Media Tidbits Rich Gordon admits, cautiously, that he's been "underwhelmed" by RSS. Cautious ...”
7 comments 03
Lights go out on Scotland - and Five
“What a result for Scotland. We go one up against mighty Spain thanks to an ...”
Bush, in his own words
“George W. Bush: Because He Says So. (Quicktime & broadband needed)
Satire from the US TV ...”
2 comments
Wha's like us!
1 comments
01
The new iMac
“Here are three dashed-off observations on the new iMac, while I use up the last ...”
| Aug 30
Three: so near, yet so far
1 comments
28
"My iPod has a personality!" No, really. It doesn't.
“Hats off to the New York Times. It's got a well-founded reputation for strong tech ...”
13 comments 27
A grassroots battle where there is no grass
“Business 2.0 is on the money about Real's dumb cut-price, loss-making battle with Apple (see ...”
Strachan on the politics of "player unrest"
“What Southampton football club lost in Gordon Strachan the manager, the media world gains in ...”
26
Too busy for words
“Trendsetters.com highlights "time compression" as a new thing. Of course, we've been muttering darkly about ...”
1 comments 25
Looking forward to Paris MacExpo
2 comments
23
More from Oslo
“M'colleague from GU, Gwladys Fouché, was on holiday when it all kicked off in Oslo, ...”
1 comments 22
Now working for Windows users too (I hope)
“Running one of the few sites on the web that only really worked on a ...”
5 comments 19
Real gets burned with Apple "campaign"
“Real really hasn't got a clue.
The digital media company, a genuine pioneer in streaming ...”
1 comments 18
Cigars all round
“In possibly the savviest marketing move I've seen in months, that cigar-chomping man of adventure ...”
We must be free to criticise without being called racist
“Polly Toynbee in form, in today's Guardian. Too much good stuff to quote it all ...”
16
A trip down bad taste lane
3 comments
15
New to the blogroll
“Introducing Blogjam, one of my favourite UK blogs but one which - for various reasons ...”
12 10
A new world view
2 comments
07
A bit fucking late
4 comments
The real danger of digital music
“Interesting stuff from Longmans.net on "the real danger of digital music sites" (for record labels, ...”
06 04
CIA Asks Bush To Discontinue Blog
“The Onion:
"McLaughlin, normally hesitant to express public disapproval of the president, said the blog ...”
1 comments 02
Gamesblog launches today
“Hurrah! Those who know what I get up to at work know that, for a ...”
01
The Apple Product Cycle
“The Apple Product Cycle - a wonderful bit of satire, with a degree of accuracy ...”
2 comments | Jul 31
"WHAT THE F**K ARE YOU GUYS DOING UP THERE?"
“In easily the funniest post of Democratic Convention week, Matt Drudge transcribes the frantic calls, ...”
28
The perils of "funny" filler text
“"Whoever wrote these words must be at least in league with the devil."
Puts other subbing ...”
BlogOff
“And while I'm taking potshots at the increasingly smug blogging establishment, it's worth noting Paidcontent.org ...”
2 comments 27
Convention blogging: the citizen media revolution arrives
“...and, in between blogging about blogging and listening to Tears For Fears tracks during the ...”
1 comments 26
Fulham's very temporary new home
“Fulham fans have a right to be excited about returning to their traditional home - ...”
25
PowerBook and the case of the missing Bluetooth
“I love my new PowerBook, but it has an irritating habit of forgetting it has ...”
7 comments 22
Registration debate
“Here's a very interesting story and discussion on news site registration.”
19
Our cats have gone to the dogs
3 comments
You what?
“Addendum to yesterday's post on Fahrenheit 9/11: an ad before the film was touting "Chokey ...”
Did Fox open the door for Moore?
“Following my earlier frets about all-action, no reflection reporting, I suddenly got several reminders that ...”
18
Fahrenheit 9/11
“Continuing a proud tradition of being among the last people in Britain to see controversial ...”
Ooh - a new iPod
“Newsweek has been given news of Apple's new iPod. Highlights: $100 sliced off the prices, ...”
1 comments 16
Salmond (re)enters the fray
“Alex Salmond, June 2004: "If nominated I'll decline. If drafted I'll defer. And if elected ...”
15
Hersh expands on torture claims
“A while ago I posted something about claims made by US journalist Seymour Hersh, and ...”
World: meet "tech-tainment"
“Umm... haven't we met already? From Trendsetters:
Digital Lifestyle Sector Heats Up
One month after Ziff Davis’ ...”
14
The New York Times and Google
“A slightly unfocussed piece in Wired News today asks:
"How can the mighty New York ...”
13
It really is the White Island
“Addendum to yesterday's post: Ibiza is known as the White Island for its Moorish-influenced architecture, ...”
12
iTunes' 100-millionth download
“Apple announces:
"Music fans have purchased and downloaded more than 100 million songs from the iTunes® ...”
Tune of the summer
“Fresh back from Ibiza, and so can report: word around the White Island's campfires is ...”
10
When IT journalism saps you of joy
“Good grief. Wired imitates the Onion in "Bloggers suffer burnout", while the BBC News Online ...”
Rod Liddle in the Telegraph
“Poor old Rod Liddle. He´s interviewed in today´s Daily Telegraph, and the ex-editor of Today ...”
02
Notes from beyond the beach bar (ii)
“For my purposes (drop in, chill out) Ibiza´s as glorious as it always was: sun, ...”
1 comments | Jun 30
Notes from beyond the beach bar (i)
“This is old stuff for committed blog readers, but hey - I came to this ...”
2 comments 28
Notes from beyond the beach bar
“Right. Damn it all. I'm off to Ibiza. In the words of those pop immortals, ...”
23
Coming soon: CSI New York
“Great news. Hollywoodreporter.com reports: "The city that never sleeps will soon be the backdrop of ...”
1 comments 22
Scottish football shocker: sense prevails
“Scottish football has voted to return to widely accepted, long-held sporting principles today, and decided ...”
3 comments 21
A definition of disrepute
“From this morning's Guardian we learn some interesting things about Croatia's tactics for tonight's decisive ...”
1 comments 14
Scotland's tartan bigots
“To Clapham last night, with an English friend, to watch England take on France in ...”
4 comments 12
Torture and rumours of torture
“Journalist Seymour Hersh has been speaking at the University of Chicago, and one of blogger ...”
11
Eee aye eee aye eee aye oh, it's up the football league championship wossname we go
“Terrible things happen to sporting championships when you start messing around with the format.
Just ...”
07
Happy news only, thanks
“My regular reader will recall that, last month, I wrote about the Times of India ...”
2 comments 06
Great unlikely parliamentary exchanges (i)
“The big news peg from today's NotCon geek gathering in London was, by a long ...”
1 comments | May 17
Gah.
“For feck's sake. All over 'em, we were. And then they go score with their ...”
16
You might think it's juvenile...
“But I haven't been this anxious about a football match since I was a boy. ...”
15
You've gone and spoiled it, Gwyneth
“Browsing KVOA.com (the news leader for southern Arizona, and always my first pick when I'm ...”
1 comments 13
Buy your way onto a front page
“It's hard to believe this is true. According to an unconfirmed story (found via the ...”
11
Those conclusive survey results in full
“Londoners have reached record-breaking levels of ambivalence, an exclusive poll for the Evening Standard shows ...”
02
Would the real Uffizi website please say ciao?
“The Uffizi Gallery in Florence might house one of the most remarkable collections of art ...”
7 comments | Apr 22
Desmond's "Nazi" tirade
“A quite remarkable exclusive on Media Guardian today, concerning the behaviour of one of Britain's ...”
2 comments 21
10 important things learned during a week off to revise for an exam
“1/ Booking a train ticket on Thetrainline.com appears to be impossible.
2/ Booking a return to ...”
3 comments 14
The state we're in
“From Guardian Unlimited & PA this afternoon:
Internet bank Egg was criticised by the advertising watchdog ...”
The London Marathon and me
“I'm delighted to learn that the London Marathon goes right past my door this Sunday. ...”
1 comments | Mar 31
Creepier than Nixon
1 comments
29
Washington Post on Microsoft and blogs
“Microsoft announced at the weekend that it plans to launch a blog search, although exactly ...”
27
Let's fiesta. Cha cha cha.
“I was intrigued to note this comment left here earlier:
Richard MacManus has summarized Chris Lydon's ...”
1 comments 25
One year ago today
“"[Weblogs] are an interesting phenomenon, but I don't think they will be as talked about ...”
4 comments 19
Poster tubes
1 comments
16
Coates' personality types
“Tom Coates sets off on a bold effort to define personality types. Eschewing Belbin's definitive-but-dull ...”
12
Blogging liiiiiive - from Crewe
“And so to sunny Crewe (actually completely bloody freezing, and cloudy), for a weekend of ...”
08
Back from my holidays
“With some pictures from Saalbach, Austria, home to great skiing (I'm told) and some real ...”
| Feb 24
Where I've (not) been
1 comments
18 17
When auto recommendation goes wrong
“Just before heading off to the States in the New Year, I joined Audible.com - ...”
5 comments
Steinberg's Hierarchy of Scandal
“mySociety supremo Tom Steinberg has a wonderful chart on his weblog which ranks scandal by ...”
15
Reminisce
“The big three-oh approaches in less than two hours, so it seems appropriate - having ...”
2 comments 10
When cut and paste goes wrong
“From tonight's TeamTalk email, disturbing evidence that their reporters can't even cut and paste a ...”
04
The President in Roswell
“Unvarnished and uncommented upon, I bring you this treat: a transcript from the official White ...”
1 comments 03
Welcome, Lingeriebowl pervs
“Well, I'm both horrified and secretly delighted that so many people are turning up here ...”
| Jan 27
Breaking news on Unlimited
“Good to see Guardian Unlimited not just doing breaking news, but also breaking really significant ...”
25
From blogging to nanopublishing
“There's an interesting post by Tom Coates over at Plasticbag following the launch of Wonkette, ...”
24
It's the magic of the FA Cup, Ron
“A classic moment on Sky Sports this lunchtime, as an excited Sky Sports reporter (excitement ...”
16
Blatter: just like watching Benny Hill
2 comments
13
The wit and wisdom of Andy King (pt 1)
“The home crowd is often bitterly divided on him, the divisions usually coming to the ...”
10
Press room at CES
“It's my last day at CES, the world's largest consumer tech show, 1000 trucks of ...”
05
London by London, for a price
“Those enterprising chaps at the London News Review might be struggling to launch the magazine ...”
03 |
2003 | Dec 27
Severe weather? Are you sure?
“I'm off to San Francisco in eight days, so I thought I'd pop over to ...”
1 comments 26
Killer nuts
“It’s the season to consume vast amounts of stuff we'd never normally touch, including marzipan, ...”
4 comments 20
Competition blowback
“Well, an idle trawl through the technorati listing for our new weblogs special shows there's ...”
15
Bad writing
“Struggling through book after academic book for my OU course, one feeling recurs far too ...”
1 comments | Nov 30
Why the iPod's an icon
“Good, intelligent stuff today on why Apple's iPod has done so well, from the New ...”
1 comments 27
Glory days
“Some delicious memories from Frank Keating, ex of the Guardian, in the current edition of ...”
26
The futility of banning tobacco advertising
“It's rare that anything in an MBA textbook makes me laugh out loud, frankly. Porter's ...”
| Jul 11
Testing TypePad
“And so I kick off my third public weblog, after the now-dormant Swindonlog and the ...”
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1997 | Feb 28
Interview with Keith Mitchell of Linx
“[Originally published in the Scotsman on 28 February 1997. These were the early days of ...”
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