Happy birthday to the Guardian!
The Guardian is 200 years old today and there’s lots of stuff online to celebrate it. As I see it… STEP ONE: Start a radical campaigning newspaper in Manchester. STEP TWO: In two hundred years time, have some rando writing…
A one-line review of every #TimsTwitterListeningParty I joined in April 2021
Nobody has asked for this. Tough luck. It’s a monthly series now. I’ve marked LPs that I’d never heard the whole way through before with a 🆕 icon. The links (mostly) go to the album on Spotify. 🆕The Clientele Suburban Light…
Friday Reading S11E18
Friday Reading is a weekly series of recommended reads from the Guardian’s Martin Belam, covering journalism, media and technology, and other interesting nerdy things. It is now in its eleventh season. Sign up here. There’s some great but poignant lines…
“DO MY QUIZ!” – a new weekly online quiz for the Guardian
I am very excited that I am starting a new series at the Guardian which will allow me to shout “DO MY QUIZ!” at you rudely every Thursday lunchtime. My mantra for writing Guardian quizzes is that you want *most*…
Friday Reading S11E17
Friday Reading is a weekly series of recommended reads from the Guardian’s Martin Belam, covering journalism, media and technology, and other interesting nerdy things. It is now in its eleventh season. Sign up here. “An open letter to The Sunday…
Friday Reading S11E16
Friday Reading is a weekly series of recommended reads from the Guardian’s Martin Belam, covering journalism, media and technology, and other interesting nerdy things. It is now in its eleventh season. Sign up here. “The whole affair is a perfect…
It is a monochrome world
The best thing about this genuine exchange is you know that the person getting into trouble will be the social media manager admitting they are finding the site harder to use in public, rather than the people who decided they…
Complaints about complaints at the BBC
This weekend seems to be a good time to remember that I used to be the new media department producer on the BBC Complaints online website in 2005, and that I do not do that job anymore. Look, if you…
Friday Reading S11E15
Friday Reading is a weekly series of recommended reads from the Guardian’s Martin Belam, covering journalism, media and technology, and other interesting nerdy things. It is now in its eleventh season and is stuffed full of chocolate. Sign up here….
The railway boys
So it is as we get older that we get less patient with people doing dumb things on the internet and one of the things that has got my ire at the moment is the comments in a railway Facebook…