Dive into the archives.
- London tonight
Dropped Mrs Tosh off at City airport tonight, and on the way back decided to take a slightly circuitous route, and try the new camera out on the inky, pitch blackness (really) of the Thames.
The camera, on automatic settings (but sans flash) caught this… It’s nothing like what I was seeing, which was [...]
- Whas like us? Gie few an thur aw deed (or dying)
I’m not sure what left me more surprised from this story in today’s Guardian on the health of Irish and Scots living in England and Wales: the fact that us expats appear to be dropping like flies, or the fact that we’re now being described as an "ethnic minority group". What sets us apart from [...]
- Finding a podcast is hard to do
Podcasts. Fascinated by them, of course, but I’m running into their fundamental problem: you can’t browse them rapidly in the same way you can a weblog.
One of the reasons weblogs have produced new stars outside the mainstream is because browsing them is a quick, low commitment activity. We’re practiced at scanning through text, so [...]
- Old failures, repackaged
Vin Crosbie delivers a punchy challenge to members of the Online News Association gathering in New York next week.
“Unfortunately, the major obstacle for online journalism is the people who practice it — the best of whom will be attending the conference. Most are transplanting into the new medium the failings of the old, mass medium: [...]
- Carroll freed
Further to yesterday’s post, some wonderful news tonight.
Rory Carroll, the Guardian journalist kidnapped in Baghdad on Wednesday, was freed tonight. Carroll phoned the Guardian to confirm that he had been released from an underground cell.
The end came when one of his captors received a mobile phone call and unbolted Carroll, telling him he was free [...]
- The Guardian’s Rory Carroll
The Guardian today confirmed that its Baghdad correspondent Rory Carroll, an Irish citizen, is missing, believed kidnapped, in Iraq. Here are some of the stories he’s filed during his time there.
– Rory Carroll, the Guardian: Patient Shias file in to end centuries of exclusion (January 31 2005)
– Rory Carroll, the Guardian: Reporters at risk (September [...]
- And suddenly…
the future arrived.
- Beeb on the Cillit Bang episode
The BBC News Online “magazine” writes up the Cillit Bang episode, as first seen on Plasticbag, and later written up here.
- Making music
Interesting piece on the production of pop music in yesterday’s G, built around the imminent arrival of another album from the long-serving queen of huge pop production, Kate Bush. The piece was written by British composer Michael Berkeley, who’s better known for his classical work. But he helped out on Bush’s mid-80s Hounds of Love [...]
- Best team, best publisher
Guardian Unlimited had a very good night at the UK Association of Online Publishers annual awards…
First, the sports team won editorial team of the year, beating off competition from BBC News, Empireonline.co.uk, ft.com, nme.com, timesonline.co.uk and reuters.co.uk. The judges said…
"The Guardian Unlimited football and sport team
display significant leadership in the sports sector, setting the
benchmark for [...]
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