Kate Bush live was a little like watching the movie of a dearly loved novel
*** WARNING CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR KATE BUSH LIVE IF YOU HAVEN’T SEEN THE SHOW YET *** I got to see Kate Bush last night. As I said to my wife as we walked towards the venue, “This is something I…
Am I being deleted by Google against my will?
UPDATED: Quartz say no – “Google is trolling the EU with passive-aggressive disclaimers on search results” ———————————————————- I noticed by chance when Googling looking for an old friend that some of the search results for their name had been removed…
Shat on the Telegraph
At the weekend, Gary Lineker watched his boyhood team Leicester City come from 3-1 down to beat Manchester United 5-3. He got excited and swore on Twitter. He’s a football fan. I’m not sure they can be at the Telegraph….
The growing disconnect between social media use and broadcast media convention on election days
I’ve absolutely loved being part of the Daily Mirror and Ampp3d’s coverage of the Scottish Independence Referendum. And right now, I’ve got quite a good few hours of coverage ahead of me still. As polls close, here’s some thoughts on…
Ampp3d under “friendly fire” from the National Secular Society
We did a story on Ampp3d this week fact-checking the Daily Mail’s scaremongering nonsense about the number of Muslim children growing up in the UK. The National Secular Society did not like it. In their story about the number of…
Tom Bradby isn’t enjoying covering the #IndyRef. This may be the new normal
Just a thought on the level of abuse journalists have been receiving during the #Indyref campaign in Scotland. Tom Bradby writes a post about how he isn’t enjoying the experience of covering the referendum because of the level of abuse…
An open letter to the Independent about reporting the royal baby news
If your schtick is that you don’t make a big fuss about reporting news about the royal family, then tweeting out that that you didn’t make a big fuss about it with a #RoyalBaby hashtag appears to be self-defeating How…
Why look – it’s another unnecessary opinion piece about the Scottish #Indyref by an Englishman
Last time I checked the internet was not short of opinions about the Scottish Independence Referendum. So please feel free to ignore mine. Although it does include a little bit about the experience of running Ampp3d during the process which…
The Scotsman really has banned mention of Wings Over Scotland in their comments
UPDATE It’s been pointed out to me in the comments here, and I’ve tested it, and the ban on mentions of “Wings Over Scotland” has now been removed Original article from September 8th: In all my years of commenting about…
Why don’t I care about Twitter shoving “favourites” into my timeline?
I’ve made a few sarcastic tweets over the last few days moaning that people are over-reacting to “the horror” of Twitter mixing in favourites with tweets and retweets in your timeline. Woaaaaahhhhhh it’s almost like all your Twitter favourites weren’t…