2011-07-18
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2011-05-30
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James Ball in the Guardian’s Comment is Free: Give Twitter credit for trying to stand up to the courts – unlike others.
Is it really true that four of the five old broadsheets have outsourced email to Google? It’s both plausible yet, somehow, deeply worrying.
2010-11-12
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A wide angle of the shot that featured on a bunch of UK newspaper front pages on Thursday:
See also: this John Harris comment piece in the Guardian. Well worth a read.
2010-03-26
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2010-03-09
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2009-06-28
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Richard Rutter, commenting on the Best Daily Mail poll ever, one of Simon Willison’s images on Flickr, and the fact the Mail withdrew a gamed online poll.
Well, it now looks like there is an analogue at the Guardian; their page asking “is it time to return the Parthenon Marbles” is currently running 95% in favour. I also note it’s “most read” on the site, and a quick use of bit.ly finds posts like this on Twitter.
I doubt the Guardian will take this down, but I would love to know if the data is recorded with a guess as the location of a voter, whether there’s evidence of a surge of Greek (and other) voters visiting the poll and leaving the site, and the answer to similar questions. (I realise that there are good reasons we can’t have such data, but it can’t hurt to wonder.)
Perhaps unsurprisingly, the Economist’s leader is also one of its most commented-on articles at the moment. (I liked their coverage of the museum, by the way.)
Two last points: firstly, the URL has the phrase “Elgin marbles” while the page’s title uses “Parthenon Marbles”. As names matter, this is an interesting disparity. Secondly, when I tried to post this as a comment on Flickr, it labelled one of the URLs I’ve referred to as “used for abuse”. Hmmm.
2009-04-10
IHT.com Folds In To NYTimes.com, Paper Redesigned For Closer Integration | paidContent.org
I’ve been trying to post a couple of entries on notes.husk.org this morning, and (as often happens) getting distracted. One thing that came up was a link to an Alice Rawsthorn piece in the IHT, but when visiting it, I got this unhelpful message.
It turns out, as the paidConnent story makes clear, that the New York Times, which owns the International Herald-Tribune, has just closed the site and rebranded it as its own. I could live with that (although the IHT design was much cleaner), but killing over five years of archives (including popular stories like these) is pretty unforgivable in my book.
To be charitable, I’ll hope this is a temporary issue, and that soon the archives will be back. If they’re not, though, I’ll be pretty upset with the Gray Lady.
2009-02-05
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![Google puts spy in your pocket - provided you have the right sort of phone, sign in, and then approve the people who you want to spy on you. Who writes this nonsense, exactly?
As for “Anyone who left their phone in a bar could be ‘covertly opted in’, [Simon Davies] claimed.”, well, software installation on mobiles must have got a hell of a lot easier since the last time I tried it.
[Edit] On balance, Meg’s response might have been healthier.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/rdI4dCBFkjksj8bkHrL0GJt2o1_400.png)
Google puts spy in your pocket - provided you have the right sort of phone, sign in, and then approve the people who you want to spy on you. Who writes this nonsense, exactly?
As for “Anyone who left their phone in a bar could be ‘covertly opted in’, [Simon Davies] claimed.”, well, software installation on mobiles must have got a hell of a lot easier since the last time I tried it.
[Edit] On balance, Meg’s response might have been healthier.
2009-02-04
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You might have noticed that it snowed in London earlier this week. It dominated the front pages, but there wasn’t realy a single defining image.
However, the Independent used versions of the two images used by more than one paper: the policeman in a snow-covered helmet (which got used in three different variants), and a crowd of people (on Parliament Hill?) which the Mirror also used as its front page lead.
However, I think my favourite is the Telegraph’s picture of the Palace of Westminster (which sat on both Monday and Tuesday, despite the snow).
Front pages courtesy of Sky News (and if there’d been a 13th paper, I’d have spared you the Star).
