Journalism and politics are inescapably inter-twined.
authority
Fake New York Times story gets over 50,000 views [http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/01/us/fake-new-york-times-article-claims-elizabeth-warren-endorsed-bernie-sanders.html] And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why we need to teach critical thinking: > A webpage that masqueraded as a New York Times article and claimed that Senator Elizabeth Warren
Blogging
There’s a certain genius to Medium that I think gets easily lost. Medium [https://medium.com] has solved the biggest problem in blogging: maintaining a blog. Look, running a blog is hard work. I’ve been running this one for 12 years now, and it remains a hungry beast
labour
I can’t think why…
bloom county
The fact that this exists, is on Facebook and is embeddable here makes me so very happy. Bloom County is back – for a while, at least.
blog platforms
Here’s an actual product moving overseas [http://blog.ghost.org/digitalocean/] thanks to the UK government’s moves on digital privacy (as opposed to a notional one [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2015/05/follow-up-on-the-brighton-tech-company-quitting-the-uk.html] ): > The UK’s newly elected Conservative government recently pledged to scrap the
aral balkan
A little follow-up on the idea that a Brighton-based tech company [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2015/05/why-one-tech-company-is-quitting-the-uk-post-election.html] is quitting the UK, because of the current government’s proposals. An unusual number of people got in contact to suggest that calling ind.ie [https://ind.ie] a tech
digital rights
Why one tech company is heading out of the UK [https://aralbalkan.com/notes/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish/], post-election: > Before the election, David Cameron stated that “should he be re-elected, a Tory government would plan to block encrypted messaging applications … unless the government gets backdoor access to users’ messages.” Well, guess what
elections
Dr Bart Cammaerts of the LSE [http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/polis/2015/05/12/did-britains-right-wing-newspapers-win-the-election-for-the-tories-spoiler-alert-probably-not-guest-blog/] : > What is clear, however, is that social media have had no or very little impact at all. The hashtag #Milifans and the nearly 10 million followers of comedian Russell Brand did not make
general election
The next few days could be a very interesting one for our national press. The vast majority have thrown their weight behind either the Tories or a continued LibDem/Tory coalition. The hold outs are the traditional Labour house organs – The Guardian, The Mirror and the New Statesman – and the
digital journalism
The advent of fixed term parliaments [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed-term_Parliaments_Act_2011] in the UK will make this a particularly interesting general election from a digital journalism point of view. This will be the first election where the newspapers (and others sites – but the newspapers are the
comics
What happened when Peanuts introduced a black kid [http://hubpages.com/hub/How-The-Peanuts-Comic-Strip-Got-Its-First-Black-Character] ? > I remember telling Larry at the time about Franklin—he wanted me to change it, and we talked about it for a long while on the phone, and I finally sighed and said, “Well, Larry, let’
City St George’s
A panel discussion on the Freedom of Information Act after 10 years, held at City University, London. [https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2015/02/city-uni-foi-at-10-panel.jpg] As Chair Roy Greenslade [http://www.theguardian.com/profile/roygreenslade] points out, we’re meeting in the shadow of Press