Numerous Crawfs have made it safely back home after two weeks in sizzling Greek sunshine, freed from the temptation to look at the Meejer via the Internet during this period by the fact that the clueless hotel had no wireless capability and a solitary Internet computer charged out at €5 […]
I always enjoy ruining films being watched by my children by calling out product placement every time the camera lovingly dwells on a can of Pepsi or a specific range of car or a new Sony gizmo. The new James Bond films are almost unwatchable now, such is this junk. […]
Let’s leave it to Devil’s Kitchen to tear to shreds the latest utterances of the government in its plans to spend money it does not have on even more profligate scales than now. Let’s instead focus on something missed by D’s K in the offending Telegraph article. A juicy eggcorn: […]
Some interesting thoughts on that subject in the Guardian (always a pleasure to see the word desuetude) and Sharpe’s Opinion: Reading between the lines of ‘Smeargate’ (can we really not have a better name) and the expenses scandal, we see Maximus Decimus Meridias removing his helmet and standing up to Commodus. […]
BBC director-general Mark Thompson is baffled: The figures showed that the BBC’s 50 highest-paid executives earned as much as £13.6million last year, with 27 paid more than the Prime Minister. In addition, they spent tens of thousands of pounds’ worth of public money on entertaining each other, staying at top […]
Lib-Dem Mark Reckons reports on a significant discussion about new media trends in blogging/commenting and so on. Surely the point is that we are in a classic Long Tail scenario, where market conditions are driven by technological changes. Once upon a time the sheer cost of spreading news and views […]
My first ever appearance on live UK TV this evening, on SKY to talk briefly on the ‘anonymous blogger’ issue. Why of all the bloggers in the UK they hit upon me is a mystery. But they did. Not an easy occasion, since the intro had me down as thinking […]
Here is John Simpson of the BBC opining on Iran. He used to be a good journalist before he got himself tangled in knots trying not to be judgemental about tyrannies, forgetting his grammar in the excitement: This was not, of course, the result the West was hoping for. But political chaos […]
Here (h/t Long Tail) is an interesting saga of newspaper circulation wars in Denmark, where the arrival on the scene of a new nationwide free newspaper delivered to homes caused turmoil in the market. Except what I do not understand is why Chris Anderson opens thus: …the chilling story of […]
Edwin Dyer was a British citizen captured by Al Quaeda Islamist terrorists in Mali and, now, put to death by them. My sincere condolences to his family and friends. But how did he die? BBC: Al-Qaeda ‘kills British hostage’ Telegraph: British hostage Edwin Dyer has been executed by Al-Qaeda’s North African […]
