Culture

Article — 17 March 2006 — 2,570 words

Warning: This is a navel-gazing post about blogging, and they are the worst

First of all, I am so sorry sorry sorry for writing this post. I thought I had grown out of writing about blogging, but it’s just a bad habit; an itch you have to scratch. Clearly I have had a lot of thoughts about blogging since whenever the last time I wrote about it was. […]

Article — 17 March 2006 — 371 words

A new zenith — of sadness

Culture — Human-centred approaches — Web

Chris Applegate has an interesting post about that Design Quest vote thingy that The Culture Show had recently. Concorde won, which, as Chris pretty convincingly points out, is crap. I was going to write a post about this when the Design Quest launched but then I realised that it was going to turn into a […]

Article — 2 January 2006 — 344 words

‘Outwith’ outwith the lexicon

Culture — Society

I find etymology quite interesting, so I’m looking forward to Balderdash & Piffle on BBC Two tonight. They have a list of words that the OED want to find more printed evidence of. Although I suppose the whole point of this list is that it is surprising, I still can’t believe how new a lot […]

Article — 4 November 2005 — 547 words

Now 1 in 5 youngsters blog

Media — Society — Technology

A month ago it was reported that one in three 14–21-year-olds in the UK have a blog (the survey actually revealed that one in three 14–21-year-olds with an internet connection at home have maintained some kind of website or blog). Now across the pond there is a report that says “One in Five Teens Have […]

Article — 7 October 2005 — 221 words

Domination plan foiled by esoteric spelling

Media — Personal — Technology

1/3 of 14–21-year-olds have a blog. Sort of. The article says it’s a third of 16–21-year-olds with an internet connection have a blog. And then there’s the age-old argument: what’s a blog, what isn’t, etc… Whatever, a third sounds fairly high, and is therefore newsworthy. Anyway, as one of these 14–21-year-olds, BBC Radio Scotland’s Newsdrive […]

Article — 12 September 2005 — 1,229 words

My thoughts on the Berliner

Current affairs — Media

Well then. I’ve not read any other blogs or anything about this, so I’ll probably end up updating this post with interesting quotes and links. First things first then — the front page (actually, the first thing is the barcode — the checkout guy spent ages looking for it!). I’m still not sure about the […]

Article — 30 August 2005 — 635 words

Flickr is still pretty much okay

Culture — Technology

Yesterday (via Plasticbag) I read about the group of people who had set up Flick Off in protest against Flickr selling out to Yahoo. Today I was invited into it. I knew that people must have been angry, because the FlickrBlog has recently been filled less with lovely pictures and more with explanations about how […]

Article — 14 July 2005 — 325 words

Free, legal music? Can’t be having that

Media — Music — Technology

The greed of some record companies never ceases to amaze. Surely the BBC offering — for a short period of time — free downloads of Beethoven’s symphonies must be a good thing? Oh no. According to the record companies, “it is devaluing the perceived value of music.” Actually, offering recordings of Beethoven’s symphonies is perfectly […]

Linknote — 23 June 2005 — 1 words

Business — Culture

Design clichés — Marian Bantjes — Speak Up

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Linknote — 29 May 2005 — 6 words

Media — Technology

On how journalists write about webloggers… — Tom Coates — plasticbag.org

On how journalists write about webloggers…

Article — 1 May 2005 — 452 words

Blogs are not the future

Media — Technology

I really am fed up with people expecting something to happen on British blogs. It isn’t, and I don’t care. I’m fed up with people waiting for somebody to get sacked due to a blog here. It’s not going to happen, cos the tabloids get everybody sacked for no good reason anyway. I am sick […]

Article — 31 March 2005 — 616 words

Blogging in the Sunday Herald?

Media — Technology

A wee heads-up here for those of you interested in newspapers’ coverage of blogging, following on from this month’s article in The Sunday Times — Scotland. There might be an article about blogging in the Sunday Herald. I was asked to write a wee piece about the motivation behind blogging but they’ve decided against using […]