Category: Media

  • We’re blogging about the wrong stuff, ladies and gentlemen

    According to Business Week, Perez Hilton rakes in $111,000 a month from celebrity gossip blogging while TechCrunch’s future-of-the-web stuff brings in $200K per month. My new blog – Paparazzi Snaps And AJAX Apps – launches tomorrow.

  • Keep taking the stone tablets

    I think the writer of this piece is getting a bit carried away: THE British Museum yesterday hailed a discovery within a clay tablet in its collection as a breakthrough for biblical archeology – proof of the accuracy of the Old Testament. A tablet that verifies the entire Old Testament? Blimey. So it’s a giant…

  • A.A. Gill explains how journalism works

    From the intro to his most recent book, Previous Convictions: The joy of being a hack is that there is a back room of people far cleverer, more experienced and adept than I working to make me look clever, experienced and adept. If on occasion I fail to do so, naturally it’s their fault.

  • Balance (or: stop giving nut-jobs a voice)

    Imagine you’re a journalist, writing a story about the families who lost loved ones in 9/11. Would you print the views of someone who said that 9/11 never happened, and that the families were all part of a zionist plot, in the interests of balance? Or let’s say you’re writing about the deaths of soldiers…

  • WTF?

    You need to see the photo accompanying this Sun article. [Via Fark] 

  • iPhones, imperial overstretch and Google buying Apple

    All in one utterly fascinating article by John Heilemann.

  • US sandwich shop promotes critical blogger

    A nice example of how businesses and bloggers can help each other: a US blogger decided to review all 51 sandwiches offered by the Which Wich chain, and when the firm got wind of it they put his URL on their packaging. As Marketing Monster says: This is absolutely fantastic and gutsy. Why gutsy? Because…

  • Is The Sun pockling its page views?

    I meant to blog about this ages ago, and now I’ve forgotten where I first saw it mentioned. Never mind: is The Sun pockling its page views? Yes. Is it doing it deliberately? Don’t know, but it’s really annoying: when you click a headline on the front page, it takes you to the appropriate section…

  • Biffovision: a review

    Jonathan Deamer’s reviewed the pilot of Biffovision, a warped parody of kids’ TV from the mind of Mr Biffo. I watched it in the wee small hours after one beer too many, which I suspect is the perfect viewing environment…

  • In the belly of the Beeb

    I did my usual radio babble on BBC Scotland this morning, but for the first time I went to the Beeb’s spanking new headquarters in Govan. It really is an amazing building, although it’s very easy to give yourself a severe attack of vertigo once you’re up a few floors. I’ve asked if it’s OK…