My contract with Guardian Unlimited finishes at the end of the month. So I’ve been poking around looking for a new contract. And it seems that I’ll be moving from one large media to another one. I start work for the BBC out in White City in two weeks.
Month: June 2005
Striking up Conversations with Strangers
Simon Waldman talks about the way that Guardian Unlimited needs to interact with bloggers. He’s talking about it in the context of the Guardian‘s forthcoming move to a Berliner format. The world our Berliner will launch into is almost unrecognisable to the one that greeted our last major change – the redesign of 1988. It… Continue reading Striking up Conversations with Strangers
RSS Article
I finished the article that I mentioned last week and it’s now online. It’s an introduction to RSS and, in particular, how end users can read RSS feeds. All comments are appreciated.
The Parting of the Ways
Some thoughts on the final episode of the new series of Doctor Who. In general I’ve really enjoyed this series. Most of the stories have worked well and I think that Eccleston was a great choice to play the Doctor. Bizarrely, the stories that I have liked least (“Father’s Day” and “Dalek”) have been the… Continue reading The Parting of the Ways
Eroding Freedoms
I’ve been concentrating on other things recently, so I haven’t had time to post about the new limits on demonstrations around parliament. Luckily, Robin over at perfect.co.uk has summarised it all nicely so I don’t have to. But looking at it in a wider context, it’s just one more step along a path which increasingly… Continue reading Eroding Freedoms
G8 climate plans ‘watered down’
This is all very disappointing. A leaked copy of a document on climate change being drafted for the G8 summit suggests plans have been watered down. A version of the communiqué leaked in May treated climate change as a fact and pledged money to energy projects. In the new version the words “our world is… Continue reading G8 climate plans ‘watered down’
Newspapers vs the BBC
An interesting article from the Economist discussing the fall in newspaper circulation and largely blaming the BBC’s web site for this. It is the success of the BBC’s news website that most troubles newspapers. Its audience has increased from 1.6m unique weekly users in 2000 to 7.8m in 2005; and its content has a breadth… Continue reading Newspapers vs the BBC
BBC Beethoven
You’ll have heard that the BBC are making new performances of all of Beethoven’s symphonies available for download as MP3s. In this post, Dan Hill (from BBC Radio and Music Interactive) says that this has been extremely successful (600,000 downloads) and has generated a huge amount of discussion around the BBC. Which can only be… Continue reading BBC Beethoven
Guardian Resizes
The Guardian has confirmed the rumours that it will be resizing to Berliner format this autumn. The Observer will follow early next year. Update: Oh. They’ll be full colour too. Update: Changed link to a very similar-looking story in the business section (which doesn’t require registration).
Phishing Protection
I read all of my email using either mutt or Thunderbird depending on which computer I’m using at the time. When I install either of those on a new computer, the first thing I do is to configure it so that it won’t display HTML email. I have many good reasons for doing this, but… Continue reading Phishing Protection