Construction sites and catcalling at women – the metadata never lies
Doree Lewak has written for the New York Post about how being catcalled in the street by people on construction sites is fun and empowering. Luckily for humanity, the metadata never lies…
The newspaper columnists tone-policing your grief on social media
I’m always surprised by the extent to which some newspaper columnists are disturbed by the unwashed masses being able to communicate their feelings of grief. First Dylan Byers and then Rosamund Irwin have felt the need to write newspaper columns…
SEOing the death of Robin Williams isn’t evil. It’s the equivalent of shouting “READ ALL ABAHT IT”
There’s a tweet doing the rounds exposing an internal email that makes pretty grim reading about trying to SEO the death of Robin Williams. SEO is making us better people. pic.twitter.com/8JH8039k9d — Mike Monteiro (@monteiro) August 13, 2014 I can…
If you only read one article about how the media have reported Robin Williams apparent suicide…
…it should be this powerful one by Mary Hamilton: “Reporting suicide: how not to kill your readers” “Fundamentally, the media doesn’t care about the guidelines. It doesn’t care about the people they’re meant to protect. Mentally ill people who die…
Maybe the Daily Star should have checked their own website before complaining about the BBC’s Savile article?
The Daily Star is mightily annoyed with the BBC today – “BBC bosses were blasted last night after a glowing tribute to paedo Jimmy Savile appeared on their news website.” The story? The BBC’s obit of Jimmy Savile has found…
Frank Maloney & Kellie Maloney: Watching the media cover a Trans* story with improved empathy
At the weekend the Mirror ran a story on the decision of Kellie Maloney to go public with a gender transition. I must confess I winced when I first saw the headline on my social media feeds. Not because of…
Two posts well worth reading about the Facebook news feed algorithm
“I Liked Everything I Saw on Facebook for Two Days. Here’s What It Did to Me” – Mat Honan For Wired, Mat Honan ‘liked’ literally everything Facebook threw at him, to see what happened. He could only bear it for…
50 million reasons the media needs to stop thinking Buzzfeed is only lists
BuzzFeed got some money. The New York Times headline was predictable: “50 Million New Reasons BuzzFeed Wants to Take Its Content Far Beyond Lists” Ha! Ha! Ha! It’s BuzzFeed right? And all they do is lists, right? Ha! Ha! Ha!…
Not all men. Not all industries. But nearly always men in my industry
I read this yesterday – “First night in Kyiv” You should read it too. Not because it is brave or well-written – though it is those things – but because it is important. It is the story of somebody who…