Get the habit!
If you take a look at the section of this blog that lists posts by the month in which they appear, you'll see that whilst recent months have been pretty regular, there have been some hiatuses in the p…
Tagged: the-media
Crazy, obscene or good investment?
Every now and again I come across something online that leaves me staggered, infuriated and thoughtful in reasonably equal measures. The other day I encounteredthis little gem - a chap has spent $330…
The last freedom moped from nowhere city....
Back in the 1980s there was a sit com on British TV called'The Young Ones'), which was based in a student house and followed the surreal adventures of the students who lived there. One of the charact…
Blogging the Party Line?
Incendiary political blogger Guido Fawkesmade an interesting observation the other day that the Left are once again saying that 2010 will be their year to dominate the Blogospherein a run up to an ele…
The Social Media Numbers Game
I'm old enough to have used an address book and still have a Rolodex on the phone table. When I actually sit down and think about the people with whom I have reasonably regular 'quality' contact in a…
What goes in to a blog?
I recently came across a couple of articles about blogging. Well, I'll be honest - they were in my Twitter feed and I took a look at them to see what other people's views were on the subject of conten…
Do No Evil - Ursula Le Guin, The Authors Guild and Google
During Google's formative years, the company decided to come up withthe equivalent of a short mission / vision statement that summed up what it was to be Google. After some serious thinking, the slog…
Is this really to the public good?
A couple of weeks ago I came acrossthis article in the Guardian(not my normal read, but their online media pages are useful) referring to the publication by the Wikileaks organisationof an archive of…
RATM vs X-Factor - Corporate Music Win!
There's a lovely comment in the movie 'Con Air' in which the character Garland Greene, a psychopath played by Steve Buscemi, watches the inmates on a prison transport plane celebrate their take over o…
Twitter hacked - not the end of the world, no surprise, and a badge of honour.
There's a scene in the movie 'Blazing Saddles' where the Waco Kid, being asked why he's ended up in prison for drunkenness, bewails the fact that when he was the well known gun-slinger everyone wanted…