When I was a student, I had a brilliant idea. Why not have a stand at every train station where you could sync your Palm Pilot with the latest news? Insert a pound in the slot, press the button for The Times, aim your handheld’s IrDA at the blinking light and ZAP! All the latest [...]
Update! Those wonderful, delightful, considerate, and fragrant smelling people at The Times have corrected their mistake. All is well with the world. This blog post is staying merely for #NaBloPoMo. Rupert Murdoch and John Humphrys owe me £20! In protest, I’m going to quit listening to the Today programme until they pay up and apologise. [...]
I read most of my news through my mobile – if your website isn’t mobile friendly, I won’t be bothered to read it. I’ve greatly enjoyed the BBC’s Mobile News service and Guardian Mobile – but now there’s a new player – The Times has a mobile site. This is a quick review of what [...]
Recently I was featured in two prominent online newspapers. The Times published a short story I wrote for The Times Cheltenham Twitter Competition. The Guardian wrote about my experiences with energy monitors. What struck me was the very different ways that these “Old Media” approached the “New Media” of the web. I’ll state my biases [...]
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