Links for September 14th through September 23rd:
- Our online lives slowly leak away –
- CCTV shows bus crashing into Porsche Video – Yahoo! News UK – Just odd, why would the bus driver do that? I understand the overtaking a bus bit, but at that speed? Foot slipped?
- Popjustice: Farewell, Jo Whiley. We’re sort of sorry – Sort of sums up how I feel today listening to Jo Whiley and Edith Bowman's last daytime shows.
I don't mind Edith really, but over the years come to very much dislike Jo Whiley. I dislike the way she tried to present herself as cool and with it and a taste setter but frequently showing that she knows nothing. So annoying.
Of course when your husband's a band manager you just wonder how these people get this kind of influence? Like this article says, I admire her passion and that she's come up through radio and is a broadcaster, rather than an ex-kids TV presenter who just likes music a bit.
'Landfill Indie'. Now it's probably true that 90% of all music from any era is dross, but why does the last 10 years feel more so? - Eleven Things I’d Do If I Ran a News Organization « Mediactive – 7. We would replace certain Orwellian and PR-speakish words and expressions with more neutral, precise language. If someone we interview misused language, we would paraphrase instead of running direct quotes.
9. Our archives would be freely available, with permalinks on every single thing we’ve published as far back as possible, with APIs to help other people use our journalism in ways we haven’t considered ourselves.
10. A core mission of our work would be to help people in the community become informed users of media, not passive consumers — to understand why and how they can do this. We would work with schools and other institutions that recognize the necessity of critical thinking.
- Mr. Penumbra’s Twenty-Four-Hour Book Store (robinsloan.com) – Lovely story,
Quick thought we have news sites, blog,s galleries & more – but what's the defacto standard way to display a short story online? Is it not a bit ugly just to dump the text on a page? Or should you do that, put a cover image at the top and ereader links – pdf/opf/kindle/pdb?
