May 17th, 2009
Healthy measure of web scepticism ['If web 2.0 flattens everything to the level of whim and self-actualisation, then it will have done more harm than good']: check
Emotive comparison example from expert [the lone blogger v professional journalistic teams]: check
Flashy attention-grabbing headline ['Break free of this world wide delusion']: check
All the ingredients for the Sunday paper web rant [...]
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 [...]
Oct 3rd, 2008
Bad Science » Generous review of my book in the Daily Telegraph
This man and his wild hair (see Press Gazette in print this issue) is getting everywhere at the moment, even finding praise in the Daily Mail as their ‘Health Book of the Week’… but I am a big fan of what he does. Lots [...]
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