Wowee, 50 - many lengthy - comments on a blog post that was only around 150 words to begin with…
I’m talking about the debate raging on Adam Tinworth’s blog about the origin of some incoming traffic. It seems that an NUJ email account holder had arrived at a post on his blog as the result of [...]
Clay Shirky in today’s Observer - his thoughts on algorithms
Feb 15th, 2009
I spoke to Clay Shirky recently for a piece on Journalism.co.uk. His comments provoked a few questions about web democracy, and what exactly he had meant when using the Change.gov illustration. One of his answers in today’s Observer ‘This Much I Know’ feature looks at that example again.
“Algorithms dont do a good job of detecting [...]
From Liz Hunt in the Telegraph, ‘The MMR scandal is back‘: “The second factor is claims by a Sunday newspaper that the doctor at the heart of this controversy, Andrew Wakefield, manipulated the data in the study to show a causal relationship between administration of MMR and the onset [...]
Any journalist who has read Nick Davies’ Flat Earth News is likely to think twice before picking up the phone to get the counter argument to ‘balance’ the story.
Or if they still do subscribe to that formulaic news format (’he said-she said’ = ‘a row broke out today’) for the sake of it where it’s simply [...]
Twitter @theBaftas; #salad gets a mention
Feb 8th, 2009
I was just settling down with my tea in front of the Baftas, when I realised it could be quite fun (fast descending into undeniable geekdom) to follow with Twitter (via @jtownend). Turns out not many any bona fide film critics are on Twitter: maybe the London Evening Standard’s @nickcurtis put them off (back story [...]
Sometimes I’m with Observer Woman’s Polly Vernon, sometimes I’m not (though credit to her for making her living writing about not shaving your legs for three and half weeks* / how many cups of coffee she drinks a day / why she likes being thin - on more than one occasion**) but I’m definitely nodding along today [...]
Today I have left comments on three or four different blogs following up on references to an interview I did with Clay Shirky, prior to his appearance at the LSE on Tuesday evening.
Each time I registered my details and signed up for follow-up emails if possible. Then there’s been a bit of Twittering as well, [...]
Uncategorised links
Feb 3rd, 2009
My friend Samuel - billed as ’super geek Sam’ on Total Wipeout (episode 5), an obstacle course in Argentina. Contrary to all expectation (his own and those who know him) he finds himself in the final three (from 20).
Frost/Nixon: now need to find out how much really happened. Like the late night phone call? I [...]
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