Dive into the archives.
- 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 [...]
- Struggling with spam
Sorry to those who had their comments held in a queue for moderation… this was a side-effect of trying to deal with trackback spam, for which Typepad offers entirely inadequate tools. It’s impossible to globally turn off trackbacks without also doing the same for comments, and impossible to moderate trackbacks but not comments.
I can’t [...]
- Launch day
It’s time to stop talking, and start… umm… talking. Comment is free, our new superblog, launches today, bringing some of the sharpest minds to the blogosphere for the first time. We’ve got a remarkable list of contributors lined up to make their blogging bows as the week goes on.
Thus far, everything about this has been [...]
- 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.
- End of the (Voip) line
[A little earlier:]
Completetosh: "Well, my prediction would be that…"
Presenter: "Oh… we seem to have lost Neil there…"
Completetosh: "Hello? Hello!…. Hello?"
Presenter: "Never mind. Well, my prediction is…"
Completetosh: Damn.Such are the perils of attempting to get all cutting edge on yo’ ass, and be part of a BBC Five Live panel via Skype.
Indeed, most of the [...]
- 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.
- Introducing… Culture Vulture
One of the reasons for silence here in recent days has been the imminent arrival of our latest blog, covering arts, books, film and teevee, finally launched yesterday. Written by a collaboration of desks at Guardian Unlimited, plus friends from the Guide and elsewhere on the paper, with expert Movable Type wrangling by Mr H. [...]
- The trouble with RSS
RSS gets me into terrible trouble, you know. At blog socials, like Tuesday night’s very enjoyable geek dinner, there’s always someone ready to quiz me on why either this site, or the Guardian’s weblogs, don’t have "proper" RSS feeds. Now, for those who don’t know the code, "proper" in this context means "full text". Why [...]
- What a swell party that was
Thanks to Hugh for organising the rather wonderful geek dinner on Tuesday night. These affairs - in my experience, at least - usually happen in overcrowed, airless basements. Hugh wisely secured an entire, spacious, upper floor of the Texas Embassy restaurant just up from Piccadilly Circus.
And it was a rip-roaring success. Met lots of folk, [...]
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