Dive into the archives.
- The trouble with RSS
RSS gets me into terrible trouble, you know. At blog socials, like Tuesday night’s very enjoyable geek dinner, there’s always someone ready to quiz me on why either this site, or the Guardian’s weblogs, don’t have "proper" RSS feeds. Now, for those who don’t know the code, "proper" in this context means "full text". Why [...]
- What a swell party that was
Thanks to Hugh for organising the rather wonderful geek dinner on Tuesday night. These affairs - in my experience, at least - usually happen in overcrowed, airless basements. Hugh wisely secured an entire, spacious, upper floor of the Texas Embassy restaurant just up from Piccadilly Circus.
And it was a rip-roaring success. Met lots of folk, [...]
- Paper rituals
I might have swapped ink for bits these days, but occasionally a little glimpse of the rituals readers build around newspapers reminds me of the huge affection in which they’re still held… this, from today’s letters page in the G:
“Not only have I lost me crossword partner of long standing, I am now obliged to [...]
- Here’s the future of storytelling
OK - the headline’s maybe a bit overblown, because not all stories are going to be told this way. Just the important ones.
I’m indebted to my mate John at the Beeb for pointing me in the direction of this multimedia op-ed piece from the New York Times, published last week. The piece, called Why Should [...]
- Apple to switch to Intel?
Either News.com has taken a flyer of historic proportions, or they’ve got a great exclusive - and Apple really is going to announce on Monday that it’s switching to Intel processors.
Apple has used IBM’s PowerPC processors since 1994, but will begin a phased transition to Intel’s chips, sources familiar with the situation said. Apple plans [...]
- For the love of pod
Charles Arthur is in entertaining form over at the New Statesman where he takes a look at the emerging world of podcasting. Now, this method of recording and delivering audio over the net has made remarkable progress in barely a year - Ben Hammersley was only coining the phrase “podcasting” in the Guardian a little [...]
- Kill the Euro
Oof. A blog post doesn’t need to be long to be effective. Larry Elliot, the Guardian’s economics editor, takes all the half-digested arguments against the Eurozone you may have heard, and distills them into one devastating Newsblog post of only 230 words. His conclusion: it’s time to kill the Euro.
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