Monthly Archive for November 2008

Example of using Publish 2 to automatically publish links. It seems to be working very well!
10,000Words.Net: Best photojournalism on the net
One man’s round-up of the best photography news sites on the web.

links for 2008-11-21

Eric Ulken’s next assignment: the online world, from around the world
The LA Times interactive technology editor Eric Ulken is off to trot the globe, after ten years working in newspapers. ”Now I hope to effect change from the outside”, he writes.
“Earlier this month, I left my job as interactive technology editor at the Los Angeles Times [...]

Today proved my point exactly. It all comes out in the wash. People don’t care really. So why do we bother to sack them in the first place?!
Once upon a time, about six years ago, a man who presented a popular news quiz show was alleged to have taken cocaine and ‘encountered’ prostitutes. No way [...]

links for 2008-11-20

Horace Greeley on ‘hyperlocal’ journalism | Howard Owens
How right he had it, Horace Greeley in 1830: “Begin with a clear conception that the subject of deepest interest to an average human being is himself; next to that he is most concerned about his neighbors. Asia and the Tongo Islands stand a long way after these [...]

links for 2008-11-18

Media Monkey: Hammer time for Mallett | Media | guardian.co.uk
Brilliant. The man who brought us Polka Dot Bikini is looking for his hammer. What does he do these days? I haven’t seen him on I’m a Celeb Get Me a New Career yet…
(tags: timmy mallet fromtheonline hammer sun campaign)

Inspired by tonight’s programme on BBC4 I am going to learn to do cryptic crosswords.
I’ve had a long-life resistance to them (owing to my parents being so damn fast at them during what could have been formative crossword solving years) but I am going to try again. It looks so satisfying. And all crossword setters [...]

PEACHES GELDOF TO GET PLAYGROUND DIVORCE - The Daily Mash
hehe… v. funny. "Geldof, who divides her schedule between pretending to be a television presenter and pretending to be an air hostess, said she would like to be friends with Max but unfortunately he is made entirely of bogies."
(tags: peachesgeldof, daily mash, divorce, max, fromtheonline)

Brighton Bloggers: [...]

links for 2008-11-05

Historic home pages: Lost Remote TV Blog
What a good idea: Lost Remotes has screen grabs of the home pages: ten minutes polls after closed on the West Coast. I was, ahem, in bed.
(tags: lost remote, us election, homepages, screen grab, historic home pages, obama victory)

I can’t do it. I can’t stay up. I need to be fresh for fireworks tomorrow so I’m going to sleep. I’ve had a lot of fun following from afar: what a completely different multimedia scene from the past.
Listening to a pretty funny play on Radio 4 right now: Tina C’s election night special, complete [...]

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