Dive into the archives.
- Comments don’t scale?
From Editor and Publisher: a cautionary tale about what happens when comments facilities are stuck on the end of articles without any moderation…
So much for participatory journalism. The Ventura County Star in Ventura, Calif., announced today that it has shut off comments on its Web site because the tone of those comments had grown too [...]
- Are we short of big ideas?
Peter Watson, writing in yesterday’s Observer, feels innovation isn’t what it used to be. Although his piece is worth reading in full, here are some key paragraphs:
"The year 2005 can’t begin to compete with 1905 in terms of important innovations. Last week’s announcement that British and Korean scientists have successfully cloned human embryos only reinforces [...]
- My song for Europe
In the spirit of tonight’s inspirational Eurovision Song Contest, which m’colleague Anna Pickard is live-blogging over at Newsblog in very entertaining fashion, I’ve decided to do the lyrics for next year’s United Kingdom entry - based entirely on lines recited tonight in Kiev, and a piece of spam I got during the show. See if [...]
- Economic downturn not so bad for some
Lucky them.
(from tonight’s Evenin Stanah)
- New myths of new media
I always feel it’s a tad cheap to get an entire blog post out of picking through someone else’s, but the cool kids gave it a name a while ago. "Fisking", I’m told, is all the rage. Who am I to fly in the face of that?
Especially so when you get a list like this [...]
- How good can come of Glazer
I feel sorry - really, genuinely sorry - for Manchester United fans who are having to watch, helpless, as American businessman Malcolm Glazer buys up the club and prepares to saddle it with debt, make it his private plaything, and ask them to foot the bill.
But one thing is clear: this is not, absolutely [...]
- A night of drama, reflected in tags
It’s been a fascinating, exciting night working with Lewis Baston and Markos Moulitsas on GU’s Election Blog.
The traffic has been remarkable, we’ve had hundreds - likely thousands of comments by close of play today - and the posts scattered through the night leaves a real record of how the night unfolded.
And one thing [...]
- Guardian Unlimited wins Webby
Guardian Unlimited has won a Webby for best newspaper on the web. As Sheila says on Newsblog, it’s a great honour, and we’re thrilled to have won - this is a set of awards which really do count. As the New York Times observed, these are "the Oscars of the Internet". Indeed, Vanity Fair said [...]
- Sony’s Librie edges closer
Jason Kottke raves about the Sony Librie - the epaper device that’s the most hype-worthy underhyped gadget there is.
"What you can’t see from the photo is how insanely crisp and clear the text on the "screen" is. It was book-text quality…it looked like a decal until you pushed the next button and the whole screen [...]
- Silence of the bloggers
Over on perfect.co.uk, Robin Grant does the unthinkable and acknowledges that my GU colleague, Ros Taylor, had a point when she lamented the generally pisspoor level of blog reaction to the leaking of the Attorney General’s advice in the run up to Gulf War II. Let’s hope Robin’s not planning on attending any blogger parties [...]
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