Being left behind on London during the Davos jamboree has “become a social blunder on a par with being caught in the capital in August,” says Ruth Sutherland in the Observer business section.
Yes, there is a touch of sour grapes and like her I would rather enjoy being there next year. Every blogger who can [...]
Having revisited The Times blogs (see previous post), I felt it was time to take a look at the Telegraph’s, another of my targets last October when I asked what was the purpose of newspaper blogs. There I found editor Will Lewis busy at the Davos Diary.
He was tired of talking about blogging. He had [...]
The Times is really getting into the swing of blogging and having a conversation with its readers. Sometimes the frustration shows as in this post from India Knight on the Big Brother Blog (We watch so that you don’t have to):
Could we please desist from the embarrassingly babyish, inarticulate, mud-slinging posts? I’m personally disinclined [...]
An update of Wordblog’s software has caused a few problems including a rather messed-up blogroll. I am working to sort them out. Having failed to install a couple of security updates, I felt I should upgrade to the new version 2.1 of WordPress but it was not the smooth sailing I had hoped for.
Richard Sambrook tells us that four weeks after experimentally putting up the post heading “Britney Spears, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt Exclusive!” it has not significantly boosted the hits on his SacredFacts blog.
He says: “Perhaps I should be heartened by the quality of my regular readers.”
I tried a similar experiment, putting “sex” in a headline. [...]
The best thing that can be said about The Independent’s entry into newspaper blogging is that they are wasting very little time on it. Martin Stabe took a look just after Christmas and reached the conclusion that the paper’s “cringeworthy effort at blogging” needed sorting out. He was almost too kind.
You might have expected someone [...]
Mobile phone video of Saddam Hussein’s execution has brought to the fore on the first day on 2007 the debate about how far availability on the internet should influence what is shown by mainstream media.
Writing in the Guardian about coverage of the execution on CNN and Fox News, Dan Glaister said :
But neither could keep [...]
This year there has been almost a frenzy as mainstream media websites bring on the latest technology with video, podcasts, more blogs with talk of social media, conversations and communities.
Could this rush be a mistake. Two items in yesterday’s Guardian suggest it might be. First on the business pages, Richard Wray reports that the Upload [...]
Emily Bell, the Guardian’s director of digital content, takes a look at political blogging and viral video in the media sections opinion column today under the heading “separating the bloggers from the tossers”.
Her conclusion is: “No doubt between now and the next election the increase in politicians blogging will be like lemmings falling off a [...]
In a world where so many people read and speak English, having little linguistic ability becomes embarrassing. Generally when someone links to Wordblog I take a look at their site and, if I like what I see, watch it and usually find something I want to link to in return. That just seems to be [...]
