Looks like The Times have completely reorganised their RSS feeds. The old ‘one size fits all’ feed is dead and has been replaced by a number of individual feeds (including a some that come from weblogs). The full list (together with a brief explanation of RSS and all the licence terms) are here At some… Continue reading The Times RSS Feeds
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Press Plagiarism of Blogs
Over at Guido Fawkes Blog they’ve announced the winners of their Press Plagiarist of the Year Awards which points out print journalists who have “borrowed” ideas from blogs without crediting their source. The winner was Mail on Sunday editor Peter Wright who turned postings from The Policemans’ Blog into a two page article and somehow… Continue reading Press Plagiarism of Blogs
The New Commentariat
There’s an interesting piece in today’s Guardian about the British political blogging scene. They interview eight people who they consider major political bloggers from the UK. Nice to see that it’s in G2 (the cover story no less) and not the technology section. Of course the downside is that I didn’t already have all of… Continue reading The New Commentariat
Nasty Pop-ups
Regular readers will know that I dislike pop-up ads on web sites. But I hate the new breed of pop-up ads that go to the effort of breaking through pop-up blockers and insist on showing me pop-ups even though I have explicitly said that I don’t want to see them. You’ll also know that I… Continue reading Nasty Pop-ups
Searching The Guardian
Looks like The Guardian have taken their new search engine out of beta and are now linking to it from the main site. It all looks very nice.
Newspapers and Film
My natural newpaper-buying instincts have been thrown into complete confusion by the British paper’s recent spate of giving away free DVDs. I first noticed this a couple of weeks ago when theguardian came with a free copy of The Madness of King George. That wasn’t a problem. I don’t always buy Saturday’s Guardian, but the… Continue reading Newspapers and Film
New London Transport Fares
It’s time for the Evening Standard‘s annual “outrage at the transport fare increases” issue. This year’s issue must have been particularly difficult to write as for most people the fares will have actually gone down. Let’s explain this simply so that even Standard journalists can understand. Transport for London want everyone to use their Oyster… Continue reading New London Transport Fares
Politicians’ Families
Two nicely contrasting stories in today’s papers about members of politicians’ families. Firstly, theguardian has used the freedom of information act to get lots of good dirt on how Mark Thatcher abused the fact that his mother was Prime Minister. This is, of course, exactly how the freedom of information act should be used. And… Continue reading Politicians’ Families
Doonesbury
(I know I said the last post would be the final one on the new Guardian – it seems I lied, but this is important stuff) One of the things that provoked the loudest complaints about the Berliner Guardian (maybe I should just start calling it theguardian) was the removal of Doonesbury. There were some… Continue reading Doonesbury
More Guardian
A couple of final points about the Guardian redesign before I start looking for something different to write about. Firstly, circulation levels. One of the driving forces behind this redesign is (I assume) the Guardian‘s falling circulation figures over the last year. I realise that this is purely anecdotal evidence, but over the two days… Continue reading More Guardian