Dive into the archives.
- Did AOL steal my work? I need your help…
Did AOL steal a photograph from Flickr? If you know your copyrights (or creative commons), I need your help - and others may do, too.
- The Last Post:* Lacy, Zuckerberg and how being slightly rubbish is more dangerous than ever
A few thoughts on the Lacy/Zuckerberg episode at SXSW, powered by back pain and cold-filtered through a haze of painkillers
- Valleywag finds its voice
All hail the new star on the block. It makes CNET and Wired look woolly and staid (if you even read them any more) and frankly there’s not much like it on this side of the pond. Nick Denton’s Silicon Valley blog, Valleywag, is flying at the moment, finding its voice and building a reputation [...]
- Aaand… we’re live?
I’ve been farting about with this for weeks. It’s a new look, a new publishing system (Wordpress, finally), but so much left undone, eventually.
I craved the flexiblity and control of doing my own thing, away from Typepad, but switching these things is never easy, even when you own your own domain. Wordpress uses a different [...]
- This Blogger’s Code of Conduct
God preserve us from the Well Intentioned (WI). In the wake of the shocking Kathy Sierra episode, the WI have managed not to conclude there are simply some unpleasant people in the world who we should ignore, or report to the police.
Instead, the WI have proposed a new
- Telegraph gets touchy about Comment is free
The Daily Telegraph’s Shane Richmond is unhappy that the Guardian calls Comment is free (Cif) a blog. It’s not, he says, calling for a debate about what exactly a blog is, and adding it’s unfair to compare the Telegraph’s blogs with CiF.
Maybe he’s right. And, personally, I’m delighted he’s talking about CiF on telegraph.co.uk - [...]
- Keeping good company
This week’s Press Gazette runs a feature on “the leading voices in journo-blogging” and mysteriously finds space for Completetosh*. It’s an honour - indeed, a bewildering surprise - to find this humble parish included alongside an impressive list of folk I enjoy reading myself.
Others include m’collegues Roy Greenslade and Kevin Anderson (with fiance Suw [...]
- My favourite comment of the week, so far
We get huge numbers of comments across Guardian Unlimited’s blogs these days and - contrary, perhaps, to many people think - the standard is often very high. But one comment, appended to the sports blog post introducing the latest edition of Football Weekly (now Britain’s top sports podcast - we’re very pleased) takes the biscuit. [...]
- Trying to stop talking about it, and failing
While, once, reading fucking lame pieces about blogs, blogging or bloggers and its/their relationship with mainstream journalism used to make me want to chew my arm off in frustration, I like to think that I’m almost better now.
Not quite recovered - I’ve still linked to that irritating recent piece, above - but I’m getting [...]
- Networked journalism it is
Jeff Jarvis comes up with a replacement term for citizen journalism - “Networked journalism”. It gets my vote.
Not only is there considerable baggage around the cit-j term, but the new term could better embrace the underpinning theories that make the ongoing breaking out of the newsgathering process so interesting and exciting.
It’s also a [...]
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