Dive into the archives.
- We’re all blogging now
Attempts to define what blogging is risk missing the point; blogging’s influence has spread far beyond blogs themselves
- 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 [...]
- The world’s worst airline
My friend John is responsible, in large part, for my dislike of flying. When, once, we shared a disgraceful, environmental hazard of a flat over in Putney, he would detail – over morose beers – what an air crash would feel like. “Everyone says it would be quick,” he would say, “but it wouldn’t. Falling [...]
- Poster tubes
Pull yourselves together (via the print version of this week’s Economist).
Posters advising Londoners not to bother their fellow passengers or – for God’s sake – hassle the cops on account of mere abandoned bags have been appearing all over the city in the last week. It’s a uniquely British attempt to restore the famous [...]
- Steinberg’s Hierarchy of Scandal
mySociety supremo Tom Steinberg has a wonderful chart on his weblog which ranks scandal by severity and – uniquely – splits actors and actions. He asks “is it useful for anything” and I’d argue it certainly is. I clearly recall the legendary Bill Allsopp presenting us with something similar early on in our journalism course [...]
- Bad writing
Struggling through book after academic book for my OU course, one feeling recurs far too frequently. Reading a sentence for the third, maybe fourth time, I suddenly get the concept the author’s trying to explain. It’s a great moment, hearing that penny drop, the kind of thing that makes this huge slog worth it. Even [...]
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