Tag: guardian
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Abu Ghraib Reading
2023 UPDATE: when I read my old posts from this period I’m surprised and sometimes apalled at how apparently forgiving I was of the solecisms and straightforward lies of those…
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Sarcastic link title of the month award
Via demented (in a nice way) Snackpot and branding newsletter LucJam I learn from Food Navigator that targeting kids is getting more difficult. The article is interesting (lifestage vs. demographic…
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Pants on Fire
Simon Hoggart is a treasure and if he ever actually leaves The Guardian the paper will turn to dust immediately. Today’s sketch on Blair’s performance in The Commons yesterday is…
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A convention… How grand…
I’m off to the Oxford Media Convention tomorrow. The theme of the event is ‘Public Service Communications’. If my luvvie credentials were up to date I could probably tell you…
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Quotas for BBCi
Owen Gibson in The Guardian wants the BBC to be compelled to apply the 25% independent production quota to the web.
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Readership in need of renewal
Peter Preston highlights the effects on newspaper publishing of the UK’s falling birthrate and aging population.
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So what is next?
I wrote a piece for The Guardian. I was asked to to write about what I might do next but it was rushed and I wound up cataloguing the current…
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Mitnick on Markoff
The most interesting thing about The Guardian’s Mitnick piece is that he doesn’t seem bitter – except maybe about Markoff: My argument is not that I shouldn’t have been punished,…
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Sublime Audio
The recording industry did noble work in giving us routine connection with the sublime. Now they’re risking everything by misdirecting their energy into spoiler technologies like Super Audio CD. Meanwhile,…