Society of Editors
Last week I spoke at the Society of Editors regional conference in Manchester. Here are the slides. Posted from Manchester, England, United Kingdom.
Category Archives: Internet
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 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” [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Proud of British Beer
I had this video sent to me by the fantastic Titanic Brewery from Burslem Stoke-on-Trent. It gives some interesting figures around the brewing industry. It’s not about the big brewing corporations but the small independent artisan brewers around the UK. Stirring stuff it almost brings a tear to your eye. We need to make sure that [...]