Journalism and politics are inescapably inter-twined.
david cameron
Iām loathe to join the general mob of bloggers posting about every little twist and turn of the phone-hacking scandal, and the closure of the News of the Screws World. That market niche is filled sufficiently. Iām more interested in trying to discern the long-term consequences of whatā
demonstrations
At lunchtime todayās anti-cuts protest passed Estates Gazetteās offices in Holborn. I couldnāt resist nipping out to grab a little footage and see how quickly I could turn it around. Just two pieces of kit involved ā my iPhone 4 and my MacBook Pro. This is the result:
Blogging
Iain Dale thinks heās riding to the rescue of British political blogging [http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/may/13/political-blogging-iain-dale-and-friends] : > I think the way forward for mass audience blogs is with group blogs. To that effect in a few weeks I am launching a new multi-authored
apple
Liveblogged notes from a talk by Tim Wu about the book The Rise and Fall or Information Empires, given at the RSA, London
community
 The Big Society ā itās an idea that started to emerge a year or so ago, from issues around the state of the economy. Other issues played into it: the
economy
Adding them to the post as I find them: * Computer Weekly [http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2010/06/21/241676/live-coverage-the-june-2010-emergency-budget.htm] * Estates Gazette [http://www.egi.co.uk/articles/2010/06/22/719486/Budget-2010-Live-Coverage.htm] (with behind the scenes coverage [http://www.estatesgazette.com/blogs/focus/2010/06/behind-the-scenes-of-egs-emergency-budget-coverage.
Journalism
Possibly the finest moment from Yes, Prime Minister [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes_Minister]: Any journalist about to write about opinion polls should be forced to sit down and watch this.
BBC
So, how has the online media done on this election? The BBC has reported unprecedented levels of traffic to its site this morning, but Paul Bradshaw has a good post up, suggesting that thereās a degree ofhomogenisationĀ amongst the online news outlets [http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2010/05/07/uk-general-election-2010-online-journalism-is-ordinary/
bloggers
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elections
[http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/assets_c/2010/05/4583934532_fa10d1630a_b-1638.html] Like so many others, I stopped off to vote on the way in to work this morning. I had threeĀ separateĀ ballot papers: for the national government, for the local council and for the local mayor.I was
bias
Donāt you love blog posts that save their most interesting observation for the last paragraph [http://www.charliebeckett.org/?p=2821]? > Of course, if we do get a deeply hung parliament then that will also raise all sorts of interesting procedural issues for journalists ā especially the BBC. Generally,
elections
Stephen Fry just articulatedĀ withastonishing clarity and wit [http://www.stephenfry.com/2010/05/04/how-i-will-vote/] exactly what I was trying to say last week [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2010/04/an_electoral_retreat_from_twitter.html] . Choice quotes:> For a Labour voter to hate a Tory voter