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- Keeping an eye on Andres
If the nearest thing I know to crack cocaine - Football Manager - is to believed, Andres D’Alessandro - Portsmouth’s latest signing - is going to be remarkably, sensationally good in the Premiership.
Although our report’s revelation that he’s known as El cabezón (”The big head”) does ring a few alarm bells.
I’ll be watching with [...]
- More witless contributions from the NUJ
Guardian Unlimited’s editor, Emily Bell, chipped in with her commentary on the NUJ’s Witness Contributors’ Code of Conduct in yesterday’s paper. Safe to say, we agree on the key points (my previous lengthy post on it, is here).
Jeff Jarvis - who made the code available as a web page, rather than just a Word [...]
- NUJ’s witless contributions
You’ll know I’m not a fan of much of the cack that surrounds citizen journalism. While, undoubtedly, the dread phrase can act as an umbrella for a collection of ideas that are going to change our business for a good, much of the debate habitually goes too far.
One moment, you’re discussing Dan Gillmor’s entirely rational [...]
- My, how whizzy things are (pt 27,843)
Apologies for extended silences here; similar to last year, I’ve been pursuing an important strategic goal for Completetosh that arises every January: avoid a Bloggies nomination through sheer absence of posts.
But congratulations to two friends of this parish - Anna Pickard and Graham Holliday - who have both deservedly been recognised in the shortlisted [...]
- Tabloid price war
Mediaguardian.co.uk (reg required) reports:
Four daily newspapers slashed their cover price today, heralding the unexpected return of a price war.
Richard
Desmond cut the cover price of his Daily Express tabloid by 10p to 30p
and reduced the price of the Daily Star to 30p, down from 35p.
Rival Associated Newspapers slashed the cost of the Daily Mail by [...]
- Consumer electronics retail hell
Shopping with Mrs Tosh for a new digital camera over the weekend was a reminder of just how dreadful offline gadget hunting is.
The requirement was a digital camera for less than £100, and around 3 megapixels or better. Look online, and the task seems pretty simple. In bricks ‘n’ mortar world, it’s quite hard.
John [...]
- (insert cup cliche here)
Sometimes the beautiful game is simply divine.
Clyde 2, Celtic 1 in the Scottish Cup? In Roy Keane’s first match for the hoops, you say? What - in the face of a vast amount of hype from a London press that doesn’t normally give a monkey’s for Scottish football, you add?
Snigger.
I am, of course, a bluenose [...]
- Cruel and unusual punishment
The US newspaper industry doesn’t half make life difficult for itself, what with all those scandals, refusing to publish enormously significant stories for months and months, and its insistence on a uniquely earnest form of writing for much of the content <insert own reference to pot, black, etc, here. And, yes, sorry this post is [...]
- Overaggregated, overwhelmed, bored
I’ve been saying for a while that RSS poses problems for publishers, and that users suffer from RSS feed readers that are mostly pants. Looks like the Slashdot crew is starting to feel that way too, if you read down through the conversation there.
Turns out RSS suffers from many of the problems (suffered before it [...]
- Life imitates the Onion, pt 2567
Here’s a late candidate for most Onion-like real story of 2005: over Christmas a would-be iPod owner found a piece of sealed “mystery meat” in the music player’s box, rather than the player itself.
It’s the quote in the ABC news story that seals the deal. Says mother, of son getting the prezzie: “He went from [...]
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