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- It’s hard to see the future from there
The fruitless ending to the Economist’s Project Red Stripe innovation effort poses some questions about the way publishers develop new ideas.
- On setting up an Apple Airport wifi network
A recurring frustration chez Tosh is the Wifi, provided by Apple’s Airport kit. It seems this is one area where Apple simply hasn’t cracked ease of use even for someone who, like me, has been using it since version 1. It’s tricky to set up, and it just breaks sometimes, for no obvious reason.
But - [...]
- Covering a summer of floods in video
At Guardian Unlimited this week, we’ve mostly been thinking about how to cover the floods story in video, sans network news cliches…
- Tough gig
We all like to grumble about problems at work from time to time, but spare a thought for the double glazing company telesales person who called me tonight about… the new line in solar-powered hot water systems they’re doing.
For the record, out of sympathy I took the whole scripted call, and asked for more information, [...]
- Liverpool’s bold new stadium
Liverpool’s new stadium is a bold statement in a world of tidy but dull football grounds
- More frank news coverage
More plain-spoken news coverage, this time with an immortal headline.
- Death of the Scottish press
Tim Luckhurst paints a depressing picture of the Scottish quality press in today’s Independent on Sunday:
"For the first time in 200 years, Scotland does not have its own
quality newspaper. Neither The Herald nor The Scotsman is a national
paper these days. They are both impoverished, eviscerated shadows of
their former selves."It’s not just going wrong at the [...]
- Calling it as your readers would
Is priceless robust language in a Paisley Daily Express story a huge lapse - or a masterstroke that reaches out to readers?
- Friday afternoon school assembly humour
Songs of Praise, with subtitles.
- The iPhone strategy rolls out
Sorry to bang on (OK - not really) but we’re seeing Apple’s iPhone strategy play out just as you’d expect.
I wrote, here on Sunday and yesterday in the Guardian, about how Apple would use the success of the iPhone on a weaker network to leverage better terms from all the other networks, and thus [...]
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