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- Running men (and women)
It’s hard to describe how surreal it is to wander downstairs on a Sunday evening and see, through the ground floor windows, not the occasional passing bus or car, but a tide of humanity; thousands of people, running really fast right to left, mostly silent except for the occasional bleep from a heart monitor, or [...]
- IoS on charging for content
The Indie on Sunday has a piece today on the old advertising vs subscription content argument in online news. Alexandra White of the UK Association of Online Publishers flags up our blogs as an example of how publishers are looking for new "unique propositions", while GU’s Simon Waldman points out this whole "paid content" debate [...]
- The devil finds work for idle hands
Note to self: when bored of an evening, when the telly’s crap and Lovefilm.com is persisting in delivering the second series of 24 in reverse order despite carefully ordering the wishlist so they would be available for viewing in traditional fashion, you half-wits, when you’ve had a tin too many of that London Pride simply [...]
- Blog post makes the front page
Is this, I wonder, the first time a blog post has made the front page of a national newspaper? Click on the image, taken from our digital edition, to see the front page better, or visit Kevin Sites’ website to read his open letter. A powerful read, it is to the marines with whom he [...]
- Popbitch founder on weblogs
Speaking to a group of journalism students soon, and so will be asking them if any know what a weblog is. I’m always disappointed by the response - last time, one hand from a group of 15 went up, and she was an American who’d heard about blogs before she came over.
Yet blogs, to [...]
- What were you like at 19?
Following Wayne Rooney’s petulant display midweek for England - a strop that could hardly been regarded more severely by the tabloids had he sprayed the touchline with a machine gun, rather than invective, as he left the pitch - his club manager Sir Alex Ferguson still proves he has a knack for the perfect quote… [...]
- Britain’s micro publishing nano boom
As recently as the summer, nanopublishing was pretty much a US game. They’ve had the likes of Nick Denton and Jason Calacanis with their Gawker and Weblogs Inc empires for some time now. But, on this side of the Atlantic, there hasn’t been much.
There has been something. We’ve been conducting some very successful experiments [...]
- Apple Store opening: a video nasty
I was on t’ telly this morning, blinking a great deal and talking about the new Apple Store in London. For the benefit of friends and family I didn’t warn (ie - all of them) the video, featuring a mercifully short soundbite from me, is here.
The store itself is, as you’ll see, both [...]
- How I entered the porn business
Interesting things happen when you allow your domain name to expire. Take an old, pre-blog vanity site, neilmc.net. For reasons that will become obvious, I’m not linking to it, and I’d urge you not to type in the address just yet.
I let it run out earlier this year - nothing of interest there, just some [...]
- Faces of the fallen
A remarkable interactive graphic featuring the names, details and faces of all the members of the US services killed in Iraq.
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