Telegraph: Fake Christmas trees: shop offers ‘most realistic ever’
Friday, 14 November 2008, 18:44
The Telegraph has a new (?) widget showing the popularity of its stories on Digg.
Times Online: Journalists cry foul as politicians put the boot in
Wednesday, 29 October 2008, 11:11
"[A] a charity football match between Scottish politicians and sports journalists which had to be abandoned after descending into a brawl…"
Hartlepool Mail: Mail readers can pick up paper in church
Monday, 13 October 2008, 10:41
"Parishoners will be getting their news from the pews after the Mail stepped in to help villagers whose post office was axed. … The Mail has answered the prayers of people living in Hart, on the outskirts of Hartlepool, who were suffering a local news blackout after the Hart Post Office… But, through the divine intervention of the Mail, village locals can now pick up their favourite read at the church."
Search Engine Rap Battle
Tuesday, 16 September 2008, 21:51
Some very funny geeky stuff (via Paul Cheesbrough on Twitter).
Search Engine Rap Battle
Tuesday, 16 September 2008, 21:51
Some very funny geeky stuff (via Paul Cheesbrough on Twitter).
AFP: News Blind Frenchman fined for drunk driving
Saturday, 23 August 2008, 07:04
"A blind journalist was given a month's suspended jail sentence and fined €500 by a French court Friday for driving while drunk and without a license." (HT: Craig McGinty)
Telegraph.co.uk: Giant inflatable turd escapes moorings and brings down electricity line
Friday, 15 August 2008, 11:02
A headline I never expected to see in the Telegraph, or anywhere else, for that matter.
Fast Company: “The Web’s 10 Weirdest Social Networks” Slideshow
Wednesday, 6 August 2008, 12:02
"New virtual cliques form every day, thanks to platforms like Ning that enable anyone to create an online network around any topic. Check out our list of the 10 weirdest social networks."
Tuesday, 13 May 2008, 09:48
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Divided by a common jargon? Peter Wilby on the FT’s term for what American journalists often call the "nut graf": "the bollocks par". "This is apparently the paragraph, high up in a news story, which is supposed to explain its significance."
Thursday, 24 April 2008, 12:38
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"Germany’s Bertelsmann AG will publish what could be the first in a series of annual yearbooks whose content is derived from the many hundreds of thousands of user-created entries on Wikipedia."
Thursday, 24 April 2008, 12:31
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"A University of Lincoln spokesman has attacked claims [made in student newspaer The Linc, edited by blogger Dave Lee] that traces of class A drugs have been found on campus." No drugs on campus. Now that would be a great story.
Wednesday, 9 April 2008, 09:50
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"The Rose & Crown [pub], in [York] installed cameras inside the cubicles in the ladies’ toilets about a month ago following problems with women - and men - using surfaces in the stalls to prepare lines of cocaine to snort."
