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Syria vs Cyrus: The Onion on CNN’s editorial judgment 27 Aug 2013 | 12:19 pm
Elegant, pointed rant in the Onion, courtesy of CNN’s decision to put Miley Cyrus’s VMAs appearance in the top slot of their site: There was nothing, and I mean nothing, about that story that related...
The “folly” of free news online 16 Aug 2013 | 01:49 am
Replicating the print product online exactly is madness – because the digital audience wants something different. Not looking at digital data and letting it influence the news agenda in the newsroom b...
Bit.Trip Running 11 Aug 2013 | 04:59 am
Beware of low hanging buzzsaws. The first Bit.Trip Runner game is an abomination. It is almost excellent, for the first ten levels. It has you learning to leap, kick and duck to avoid obstacles, runn...
What makes something go viral? 8 Aug 2013 | 06:17 pm
Virality is one of those words that means something new on the internet. It’s become a short word for ‘lots of social media traffic’, but virality isn’t the same thing as popularity – the latter impli...
Jeff Bezos buys the Washington Post 6 Aug 2013 | 01:36 pm
Well, that was a surprise. Some excellent words from Emily Bell on the subject, well worth reading in full: At the end of a week that saw the Boston Globe sold for $70m by the New York Times Company,...
Why I’m not participating in today’s #twittersilence 4 Aug 2013 | 05:17 am
First, let me be absolutely clear. I support the stated aims of those people participating in the Twitter boycott today, and I do not think my own speech contradicts them in any way. More than one per...
Social places, not networks 31 Jul 2013 | 01:41 pm
In the light of recent events, this post from earlier this month seems timely: Some years ago, the tech industry set out to redefine our perception of the web. Facebook (and other similar sites) grew...
The Guardian has a new URL 30 Jul 2013 | 01:46 pm
We’re now over at theguardian.com. There’s a handy explanatory blog post over here, which also contains a very happy-making phrase including the words ’10% uplift’ about the work we’ve been doing over...
Is online abuse increasing, or are we just less tolerant of it? 29 Jul 2013 | 03:44 pm
A thought that follows on from yesterday’s post about Twitter and freedom of speech: it’s easy, I think, to see all the anger and distress caused by online abuse and come to the conclusion that it’s a...
Twitter’s freedom of speech 28 Jul 2013 | 02:33 pm
Caroline Criado-Perez, the journalist who successfully campaigned for Jane Austen to appear on British banknotes, has been subjected to a horrendous barrage of threats and abuse on Twitter, and has ca...
