Dive into the archives.
- New world, new life
Euan Semple writes probably my favourite blog post of the year so far. Maybe one of the top five ever
Good luck to him in his new professional life.
- The NUJ debate rumbles on, slowly
The arrival of the NUJ’s monthly magazine, Journalist, has sparked further debate on the union’s widely ridiculed “Witness Contributor code of conduct”. The magazine reprints the code in full there, alongside a report from the Mediaguardian debate at which the thing was launched. Unfortunately, that debate did not appear to inform the document.
Since the magazine [...]
- In print
Couple of things in the paper over the last three days… on Friday, something on managing projects using tools including Basecamp and Writely. I’ve become something of a fan of both recently, although I’m with Lloyd when it comes to 30 Boxes - just not ready for prime time.
Then, yesterday, one of those projects I’ve [...]
- Community is mass market
Robin @ cybersoc notes:
“Recently published research by Nielsen/NetRatings suggest that over half the UK internet population visits “online member communities” in any given month. Friends Reunited comes top of the list, followed by Blogger, Bebo, MySpace and Genes Reunited.”
As he says, that’s useful if you’re trying to sell the notion of community - 1.8bn community [...]
- Keeping things civil
I’m writing in the paper today about keeping weblog comments civil.
- My Flickr foodblog
In homage to the Google foodblog I thought I’d set up my own office foodblog. Enjoy.
- Bad design: not the secret of their success
Here’s an incendiary post from US designer Andy Rutledge, who argues forcefully that the success of sites including eBay, Google and Boing Boing is not down to their design, but rather in spite of it.
“Those who say that poorly designed websites are partly responsible for some companies’ success are feeding you a load of crap. [...]
- The Victoria line is funked
Dorian Lynskey’s attempt to chart the branches of 100 years of music using the underground map is an act of twisted, random genius.
Madly ambitious, and with an explanation promptly stuck on our Culture Vulture blog, the arguments about what should have been included and what not, and how it all interlinks, could well take [...]
- The project
Page two of the paper today:
More coverage here and here. As the panel in the paper says, you can tell us who and what you’d like to see in the new blog by emailing comment.is.free@guardian.co.uk
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