Google news drone and more…
By Andrew Grant-Adamson • Apr 1st, 2009 • Category: Journalism
Debenham phone box
This morning I woke up to see a tent pitched on our village green. Any room for doubt was ended when in the newsagent I was told the telephone kiosk a little further down the green had been plastered with colourful hearts with a similarly decorated chair inside. Yes, the newspaper is dated April 1.
Techcrunch has a good round up of hoaxes including The Google drone for automated news coverage at Gizmotastic. That last one just has the ring of posibility!
Andrew Grant-Adamson is Andrew Grant-Adamson is a journalist who now teaches a new generation of writers, subs and editors at the University of Westminster.
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