2 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : Simon Willison joins Guardian News & Media - Simon Willison joins Guardian News & Media: congrats Simon!
wearehugh : Simon Willison joins Guardian News & Media | Media | guardian.co.uk - so awesome
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2 month ago
Richard Rutter : Managing community in media requires a 3-pronged approach - Great article from Meg Pickard of the Guardian.
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3 month ago
philgyford : Condé Nast to launch Wired magazine in the UK | Media | guardian.co.uk - I hate that a bit of me is torn between bitterness and excitement about this. I want not to care. (via Haddock)
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5 month ago
philgyford : Yahoo downgrades antispam measure after causing BT email chaos | Technology | The Guardian - Including a quote from "freelance web consultant and blogger Phil Gyford".
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plasticbag : The Guardian has this lovely story about a process that might restore old Black and White copies of colour TV programmes - like Doctor Who - Really looks pretty fascinating. Moreover, the picture of Jon Pertwee is wonderful. Explore! Explore!
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philgyford : BBC drops Grange Hill | Media | guardian.co.uk - Damn. I've still been enjoying recent series, and the next one will be the last. I bet you it (and Top of the Pops) will be brought back by future BBC decision makers, like Dr Who was.
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9 month ago
Ethan Marcotte : "With friends like these…" - Tom Hodgkinson on the politics of Facebook's backers. (Via Bronwyn.) ∞ [via]
philgyford : With friends like these ... Tom Hodgkinson on the politics of the people behind Facebook | Technology | The Guardian - Yes, all very well, but I'm guessing Hodgkinson hasn't analysed the beliefs of the bosses of every company he has any interaction with, only the most attention-grabbing.
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11 month ago
philgyford : Ben Goldacre: Now for ID cards - and the biometric blues | Comment is free | The Guardian - Can we all club together and buy Ben Goldacre an award for services to common sense or something? He's been on fire this year.
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11 month ago
philgyford : Amazon.co.uk: What Do I Do When I Want to Do Everything?: A Revolutionary Programme for Doing Everything That You Love: Books: Barbara Sher - The idea of self-help books makes me cringe, but this does sound intriguing... (via Oliver Burkeman in the Guardian)
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11 month ago
philgyford : Amazon.co.uk: One Person/Multiple Careers: A New Model for Work/Life Success: Books: Marci Alboher - Also sounds cringeworthy (like most self-help books) but possibly ideal. (via Oliver Burkeman in the Guardian)
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philgyford : Major pirate website shut down | | Guardian Unlimited Business - This is even worse. Appalling reporting from Katie Allen, using FACT, Trading Standards and the British Video Association as her only source of quotes. (via Haddock)
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16 month ago
plasticbag : Stephen Bayley in the Guardian rips the Olympics logo a new ... er ... ring? - The one thing he says that really resonated with me was that people are now obsessed with brand as a mask for reality, rather than brand as a representation of something fundamental to your organisation or product. Agree with that.
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17 month ago
plasticbag : "Scientists reject Panorama's claims on Wi-Fi radiation risks" from the Guardian is a pretty interesting read... - Also good are statements from scientists indicating that it was "grossly unscientific" and "a scare story". I complained to Panorama via the BBC complaint line yesterday.
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17 month ago
Simon Willison : Guardian Unlimited's new look: Some background on templating - Guardian Unlimited’s new look: Some background on templating. Nik Silver describes some of the challenges involved in building a complex new homepage using CSS and Velocity.
Richard Rutter : Background on templating the new Guardian website - .
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17 month ago
philgyford : Why the BBC Trust's decision on iPlayer sells us all short from Guardian Unlimited: Technology - If Cory's too much for you, Bobbie's more English in his disgust. Gahhh. 86% of the public respondents are obviously far less important than the precious "industry stakeholders". Angry. (via Wonderland)
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18 month ago
plasticbag : The Guardian Technology blog has revealed that for the second time in almost as many months The Independent has got something startlingly wrong... - This is the mobile phones kill bees thing that went around a while back. Apparently even the researchers of the original paper are sort of horrified by the way it was presented by the increasingly 'invisible ray'-afraid Indy...
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philgyford : Writers' rooms: Will Self | Special Reports | Guardian Unlimited Books - I love this series. As someone else said, they've mostly looked like typical taken-over spare rooms. Comfortable. Almost not like work rooms. Self's is reassuringly different.
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18 month ago
Richard Rutter : The Falklands - Nice piece of work from The Guardian on the Falklands conflict.
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19 month ago
philgyford : Tom Hodgkinson: Why I decided to pull the plug on email | Technology | Guardian Unlimited Technology - I fantasise about doing this, but not sure I ever would. (via ChrisDodo)
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21 month ago
jkottke : A report encompassing the work of thousands of climate experts says that "global warming will happen faster and be more devastating than previously thought" - A report encompassing the work of thousands of climate experts says that "global warming will happen faster and be more devastating than previously thought". "The really chilling thing about the IPCC report is that it is the work of several thousand clima
plasticbag : The Guardian reports on the IPCC report on Climate Change and it's ... well frankly it's scary ... - The specifics of the weather changes are one thing, but the significant pressures on the world's populations, the wars and the terrorism and migration it's all going to cause - that's the stuff that's really worrying...
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21 month ago
plasticbag : Media Guardian talks about the impact the Big Brother race row could have on the respective futures of Channel 4 and Endemol - In the end, it's a TV show, and I suspect six months down the line it will seem like a very small event indeed, although the repercussions themselves will last and last...
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21 month ago
plasticbag : The Guardian reports on Jade Goody's eviction from the Celebrity Big Brother house - I watched the eviction with a couple of friends and we agreed that whatever the rights and wrongs of the situation, the Big Brother episode worked really hard to get Jade out of the building. Any illusion of balance was gone.
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21 month ago
plasticbag : There's another interesting Media Guardian article about the effect of the license fee settlement on the BBC - I could write a substantial rant about how much of the BBC's time is spent on getting the next license fee. Instead, I'll just remind the Guardian that some of the BBC services they describe are BBC Worldwide ventures and not funded by the fee at all...
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21 month ago
philgyford : John Sentamu: Face to faith | Guardian daily comment | Guardian Unlimited - The Archbishop of York on how ethics are not the same as feelings, law, social norms or religion, and how ethics in business are important. Also, I hadn't noticed comments on Guardian articles before (in tiny tiny text).
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22 month ago
philgyford : Playwright Nina Raine on the difficulties of directing your own work | | Guardian Unlimited Arts - What it says.
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