A couple of days ago I wrote up my thoughts on the new London Lite free afternoon newspaper, including its mis-use (and overuse) of the word ‘blog’. Today, London Lite competed side-by-side with thelondonpaper, the rival Murdoch-backed London afternoon freesheet that London Lite was launched to ‘spoil’, for the first time. Outside Victoria station, the [...]
The current debate in the London old media circuit is over which of the two new afternoon free newspapers (‘freesheets’ in media parlance) will be sucessful, if any. In one corner we have ‘thelondonpaper’, from Murdoch’s News International (publishers of The Sun and the News of the World). In the other corner we have Associated [...]
Anyone who reads the BBC News website, which in the UK must include most internet users, will have noticed that they’ve made some changes to their homepage recently. The overall design and layout is the same, but several vaguely ‘web 2.0′ features have been introduced. Here’s a snapshot of the new homepage: One of the [...]
I went to visit NMSI Wroughton yesterday, the old RAF airbase where much of the big bits of the NMSI museums’ collections are stored. It’s a huge site, near Swindon, and quite amazing to visit. The collections themselves are stored in huge old aircraft hangers. Inside there are airplanes, buses, fire engines, bits of machinery, [...]
Well done to my friend Kat Lay for exposing the Mail on Sunday’s sinister attempts to infiltrate islamic university societies (registration required). Via Ed J.
So I pick up my Guardian on the way to work this morning, and there above the masthead is a promotion for the new Ricky Gervais podcast. No further explanation or page reference, just the Guardian’s website URL. The webpage has a quick self-deprecating introduction (“A half-hour of all-new drivel from Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant [...]
A nice post from the Observer Blog shows up Blair’s attempt at jumping on the Jamie Oliver bandwagon. I couldn’t have put it better myself…
Today’s Independent contains an article headlined The Prying Game which starts “Frankie Roberto likes to socialise online. The University College London student has a website and a weblog, and regularly posts profiles of himself on several of the hundreds of social-networking websites on which he hopes to meet like-minded people.” The article goes on to [...]
A post on the newly-created Observer Blog reporting on their hunt for a Dalek amused me as I used to live very near the Who Shop in East Ham, which always used to stand out in my mind because it was just so out of place.
Ken Livingstone has invited publishers to bid for the rights to distribute an afternoon freesheet on the tube, the BBC reports. This is a genius piece of money-making. Everyone likes the Metro, money gets raised for tube improvements, and it’s a chance to smother complaints over the ‘monopoly’ of the exclusive Metro tube distribution deal. [...]