Last week I spoke at the Society of Editors regional conference in Manchester.
Here are the slides.
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Posted from Manchester, England, United Kingdom.
Go and see the pandas
Came across this video this morning from a tweet by my mate @gerrymulvenna
A snapshot of Edinburgh right now, roadworks missing trams, closed shops. But don’t worry about all of that, go and see the pandas…. Continue reading
Posted from Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.
Claire Squires hits £500,000
Claire Squires who sadly died near the end of the London Marathon has just tipped the £500,000 mark on her Just Giving page.
Spectrum Day
I tweeted this earlier
Happy Birthday SpectrumHappy Birthday SpectrumHappy Birthday SpectrumHappy Birthday SpectrumHappy Birthday Spectrum
@mike_rawlins
Mike Rawlins
but some of you will have had problems loading that tweet, (it is due to the way Twitter handles returns and line breaks I think) so I have printed the source code here if you want to hand code the tweet on your Spectrum.
10 CLS
20 Print “Happy Birthday Spectrum”
30 Goto 20
Or if you are feeling really lazy I have put an mp3 of the code here for you.
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So I wrote a book
Well actually, I contributed a chapter to What Do We Mean By Local published by abramis ISBN 9781845495404.
I was approached by the editors and asked if I would like to contribute to the book, the invitation came just after the announcement from The Journalism Foundation about their support for Pits n Pots. So I thought why not, it would be good to write something up about Pits n Pots and the journey we had made thus far, and it can’t be hard to write between 3000 & 5000 words can it? Yes it can! Continue reading
Posted from Stoke-on-Trent, England, United Kingdom.
Twitter – Verified ✔ or not?
Every now and then I come across a Twitter user who puts a ✔ after their user name or uses the words Verified Account in their profile. They do this to add an air of legitimacy to the account, to make them more plausible. I have seen an increase in and reported spammers over the last week who are using these ‘tricks’ to make them appear to be legitimate accounts. Continue reading
Posted from Stoke-on-Trent, England, United Kingdom.