Citizen journalism

Article — 11 January 2007 — 1,025 words

Joe Blogs knows nothing. So what?

There was something interesting in that report about Scottish blogging on Radio Scotland from a couple of weeks ago that I never got around to writing about. Tim Montgomerie of 18 Doughty Street and Conservative Home was asked about a concern that some people might have about the blogosphere — that people who don’t actually […]

Article — 26 July 2006 — 1,056 words

Blogging takes no time at all

Current affairs — Media — Technology

A lot of bloggers have had a lot to say about Yasmin Alibhai-Brown’s little tirade against blogging. (You can’t read the article now because it is behind a subscription wall. Independent please note: this is why Guardian Unlimited and BBC News are the most popular news sites on the net and yours isn’t.) It is […]

Article — 17 March 2006 — 2,570 words

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

Culture — Society — Technology

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. […]