Dive into the archives.
- Wraps off the Observer blog
Finally, I can reveal the cause of the great January silences around this parish… I was a tad occupied with work on the Observer blog, launched today as the newest, grooviest blog in the world, from the people who also bring you the oldest Sunday newspaper in the world.
New media, meet the oldest media [...]
- Because it wouldn’t be a blog without some cat pictures
What, I wondered, would happen if I Googled my cats’ names? Why - I’d find a drawing of them, which I ordered from the very good Sally Logue as a Christmas present back in 2000. She got a very good likeness at the time - today they’re a bit older, a wee bit more prosperous. [...]
- Hurrah!
Congratulations to the Guardian Online team, which gets several mentions in the shortlists for the inaugral Imperatives. Onlineblog is up for best digital media blog, while Online and Onlineblog ever-present Jack Schofield gets a richly deserved nomination for lifetime achievement. Elsewhere, Online editor Vic Keegan’s campaigning KickAAS blog is up against Online contrib Ashley Norris’s [...]
- 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 been blown away by Gmail (mail me if you want an account) or Google Maps recently, you’ll have at least an inkling that those sites work in a very different way to other web sites. They’re much more responsive, and [...]
- McKinsey? Oh dear…
Vin Crosbie over at Digital Deliverance casts a critical eye over reports that News International is to call in the consultants - McKinsey, no less - to try and tell them what they should be doing with this interweb lark. He makes the reasonable point that someone in this "$29 billion corporation" really ought to [...]
- Seduced by the bright lights, again
My regular reader will have deduced I like pictures of bright lights, and especially ones taken at night. So here’s another night view of the city; looking south across the Thames, from the bar of Rhodes 24, the rather fantastic restaurant in Tower 42. Mrs Tosh took me there for my birthday last week. Fans [...]
- Labour’s new grotesque chaos
In 1985, in one of his finest speeches, Neil Kinnock took to the podium at Labour Party conference to lambast the "grotesque chaos of a Labour council – a Labour council – hiring taxis to scuttle round
the city handing out redundancy notices to its own workers," powerfully summing up the ugly sight of a bunch [...]
- NYT buys About.com
The New York Times finally buys About.com for a handsome $410m in cash - and Rafat over at PaidContent.com hails the news thus:
"In short, this is NYT’s blog strategy, on the editorial side. Whether they want to characterize it as such, that I doubt…"I guess it doesn’t matter what they call it. But, at 10x [...]
- 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 Livingstone, embroiled in a row after likening an Evening Standard reporter to a Nazi guard, is right to stand up to the Mail group’s bullying tactics.
"If it weren’t for his bringing the Nazis into it, would Ken Livingstone have found [...]
- Dumb and dumber
Two bits of splendidly dumb old media thinking knocking around today. First, there’s news of a Norwegian paper, Verdens Gang, that’s seeing a near 4% year-on-year decline in print circulation - so has decided to hirple its website. Online readers will be denied access to features and columnists, and won’t see "consumer interest" (read: interesting?) [...]
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