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 the @Independent newspaper reported the #RoyalBaby news pic.twitter.com/FRHP8ipQhD — The Independent (@Independent) September 9, 2014 You used to do this… Go back to doing that….
Friday Reading S02E06
…emailing me saying they jerked off to my conference talk video (you’re welcome btw) is mild in comparison to sending photoshopped pictures of me covered in blood.” Read. “Stop Acting So Surprised: How Microaggressions Enforce Stereotypes in Tech” – Livio De La Cruz “We’ve been excluding all sorts of people from our field, not just women. For instance, according to the stereotype, if you learned to program at a young age, then that’s indicative of…
Friday Reading is now a publication on Medium
…enting with publishing Friday Reading on Medium rather than on martinbelam.com – cue massive debate about hosting your own content vs better distribution etc etc. Anyway, I’ve been pleased with how that has worked out so far, and so I have now turned Friday Reading into a publication on Medium. That means, if you have a Medium account, you can follow it to get updates when I publish, and–fingers crossed–it will get delivered to you in an email as…
I’m Martin Belam! You might know me from such internet projects as…
…chers message board, as explained by my former colleague Nigel Smith. I’ve come to believe that online communities on media sites always seem to struggle because reasons. And of course, if you work with something day-to-day, you end up having strong feelings about it. Here are my 9 pet peeves from running the UsVsTh3m social media brand accounts. I get really annoyed when people ask is blogging journalism and if journalists should learn to code. W…
Friday Reading S05E03
…talking about how the alt-right manosphere has poisoned politics. I left a comment under it, which did #numbers on Twitter: “Oh this very much chimes with my experience. I started hanging out on a MGTOW forum (‘Men Going Their Own Way’ – men trying to live with as little contact with women as possible except to use them for sex) forum as part of research into something – and after a while I began to look at it like it was a grooming operation. At…
‘Little c’ christmas is fine – it is ‘Big C’ Christmas that people fear disappearing
…t to change; a promise to defend overcooked sprouts and snowball fights, O Come All Ye Faithful and grandchildren being forced to write proper thankyou cards rather than beastly emails.” “The War on Christmas” is maybe an area that smug metropolitan liberals might consider that we are again talking at cross-purposes to many of the people that we are poking fun of. I think the two groups are talking about entirely different Christmases. It’s self-e…
“Humans are the secret weapon” – Cassie Werber talks about Quartz at #ijf17
…ount on this post in my blog’s CMS. Robots, robots, robots “The robots are coming for our jobs”, said Cassie, and she doesn’t think that’s necessarily a bad thing. She thinks it will be wonderful to free up journalists from the menial repetitive tasks to instead write the in-depth things that require real human insight. As an aside, it still boggles my minds that basically in the future robot reporters will be writing articles about movements in t…
Friday Reading S08E08
…ppressed” – Aleesha Khaliq, gal-dem A prominent gamer has been banned from competing by US company Blizzard for calling for the liberation of Hong Kong after a live-stream. This made me cry and I couldn’t finish reading it, but you might: “One thing Diana did find out after his death, in vague detail, was that James had attempted suicide the previous year, while he was in those tower block halls. Diana has no idea how much of this the university k…
Friday Reading S08E09
…e you a writer with an agent? Big Finish are keen to get more stories from communities under-represented in their audio range and would love some pitches from different voices. If you want to find out more, send your details to torchwood@bigfinish.com The Athletic is looking for podcast producers. The European Journalism Centre publishes a newsletter “100 Paths to Journalism” – subscribe to their newsletters here. You know you want to. Oh my god….
Friday Reading S10E03
…another story which is the human cost of Dennis Nilsen,” Neal added. “What comes after? What comes after he’s caught? And the people that have to investigate, in very individual ways, to get answers for what had happened for the five years and everything that surrounds that.” How David Tennant’s Des avoids true-crime dramas’ biggest trap It’s a brave man who writes this: Why Hell Bent is Steven Moffat’s best episode of Doctor Who Do my Pokémon qui…