Politics
Journalism and politics are inescapably inter-twined.
Le Web: Eric Schmidt and his Android buddy Paid Members Public
[https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2011/12/scmidt.jpg] Eric Scmidt, the executive chairman of Google kicks off the afternoon session, and he’s backing the conference theme of “social, mobile, local” . Is it just a fad asks Loïc? No, says Schmidt. has been with us
10 years ago #1 Paid Members Public
[http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/assets_c/2011/09/twintowers-2061.html] I had a working lunch on [Wardour Street](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=51.51419,-0.13456&spn=1.0,1.0&q=51.51419,-0.13456 (Wardour%20Street)&t=h "Wardour Street"
Riot Wombles in Woolwich Paid Members Public
It wasn’t just in Clapham that people pulled together in the aftermath of the riots: [via 853 [http://853blog.wordpress.com/2011/08/11/pride-in-woolwich-the-young-people-cleaning-up/] ]
Video of Lewisham Riots, last night Paid Members Public
Found by Joseph Stashko [https://twitter.com/josephstash/status/100905963061641216]. He’s also got a map of what happened in Lewisham [http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?msid=200022106557975951612.0004aa0149e3435e08d83&msa=0&ll=51.46513,-0.00618&spn=0.016095,0.045447] .
People ready to help in Clapham Paid Members Public
We don't need no steenkin' opinions… Paid Members Public
Kevin Anderson: > Yes, we’re now going to have to suffer through lots of ill-informed speculation from columnists. Brace yourself yet again as they take out their favourite axe from the kitchen cupboard and grind away on it just a bit more until the head is gone and they’
This is how a mobile brand dies… Paid Members Public
Mike Butcher, writing on TechCrunch UK [http://eu.techcrunch.com/2011/08/08/how-blackberry-not-twitter-fuelled-the-fire-under-londons-riots/] : > Over the weekend parts of London descended into chaos as riots and looting spread after a protest organised around the yet unexplained shooting of a man by Police. Of course, there was huge amounts of
Jon Snow on phone-hacking and the decline of the press Paid Members Public
Fascinating post from Jon Snow on the whole Politics/Press/Broadcast issue [http://blogs.channel4.com/snowblog/britains-watergate-mea-culpa] thrown up by the phone-hacking saga: > The relationship between print and broadcasting has always been tense. We both resent and depend upon each other ‘out on the street’. But these days,
