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- Sing and you’re winning
From the DC United vs Chelsea match report, in today’s G:
“The Premiership champions had coasted to victory against Milan but it was a different story at the home of the Wash ington Redskins. It took a smart block from Glen Johnson to prevent Joshua Gros from putting the home side in front.
The home fans sang [...]
- Cheer up, Gordon
In an oddly good mood today. While investigations into this unusual state of affairs continue, here are three interesting links.
– And, lo, Andrew Losowsky’s blog rocks graphically, as well as textually. Designed by Barry Frost, who also has quite an entertaining - if brief - website.
– Bob Cauthorn issues a “Memo to mainstream media: [...]
- Oh really?
Sir Tony O’Reilly held forth in the Sydney Morning Herald on Saturday, in an interview that surely hasn’t been reported widely enough yet. Plenty of visionary stuff in this (reg required), from the man who brought you this. Let me quote you a wee bit.
“I can’t see display advertising on the internet being a real [...]
- When technology goes too far
Rafael Behr, of Observer blog fame, wrote an artful wee piece on tech etiquette for the first Observer Technology magazine.
In it, he argued we were all turning into rude buggers: interrupting face-to-face conversations to take phone calls and checking SMS messages in company. Maybe, he suggested, there would be a backlash.
“Meanwhile, as people continue [...]
- Let’s forget about citizen journalism
M’colleague Jane Perrone has written an excellent post on Newsblog about a piece of commentary by a journalism academic, Vincent Maher, in the wake of the bomb alerts in London last Thursday.
Maher complained about the lack of citizen journalism taking place on the day. "Maybe they’re all asleep", he sniffed, complaining that nobody was posting [...]
- New hope in the debate about terror
In the last couple of days, the level of post July 7 debate has shown welcome signs of rising above the “told-you-so” vs “Nothing to do with Iraq” standoff.
First, this in yesterday’s Guardian by Norman Geras - a piece so good, it’s hard to know what to excerpt. So forgive this long quote:
“No words [...]
- More on going slow
Nik, in the comments, wasn’t far off, you know. This whole "rest stop" thing really has legs.
I’ve just been pointed in the direction of a piece by Kevin Anderson on BBC News Online last week, all about a conference in Oxford where they were talking about slowing things down, taking our time, enjoying life, [...]
- What I did on my holidays
Mobi shot of coffee and cake in Cafe Slavia, the famous old Prague cafe that’s still a lovely place to go
My act of rest-stopping was, then, to scarper to Prague for a long-ish weekend, joining Mrs Tosh who’d been there working for most of the week. Two notable* things emerged from this excursion.
First, the trouble [...]
- Hold the bandwagon?
Over at Morph, the Media Center blog, Terry Heaton is feeling it’s time for a rest stop.
“Every once in awhile, something inside me forces a halt to all activity, so that I can step back a bit and gather a hundred different thoughts. I don’t plan this, but these rest areas on the new media [...]
- You will fail
Over the Thames towards St Pauls and the City and the Millennium Bridge, taken tonight on my mobile during the long walk home.
Ken Livingstone today:
“I wish to speak directly to those who came to London today to take life.
I know that you personally do not fear giving up your own life in order to take [...]
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