Cat News In Briefs
The Sun publish News in Briefs, which is simply-written right-wing content supposedly said by topless model. So Jon Hickman thought it would work with boobs swapped out for kitties… Friday, January 22ndRead More…
Tag Archives: news
C&binet on the future of local news
I spent a fascinating couple of days down in that London at an gathering of those interested in the future of local news — organised by Sion Simon (Minister for Creative Industries) atRead More…
Hyperlocal News Wire
Here’s a pipe I’ve created that attempts to marshal the content from hyperlocal blogging in Birmingham and allow people only to subscribe to feeds that interest them. This is a piece ofRead More…
RSS as legislation
Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought reports that the US Government's new Stimulus bill requires that each government agency report the money it gives out in RSS, it's not just unstructured text, but willRead More…
onBirmingham – let’s try local news on Twitter
Twitter is now pretty much established as the place where news can break most quickly — when news happens it’s becoming more and more likely a Twitterer will be somewhere nearby, orRead More…
Rory Cellan-Jones on not being fooled by ‘surveys’
Rory rightly dismisses a press release that uses an ‘survey’ and twists the results so as to appear newsworthy. “So, while I’ll admit that I’ve occasionally fallen for this kind of stuntRead More…
When good feeds go bad
An old PA football story somehow finds itself published as new news on This is Croydon – to the ire of commenters. The very funny ire. Read the comments from the bottom-upRead More…
Tony Blair is Ali G
Supposedly shocking “leaked” memo by Tony Blair to some of his New Labour buddies makes the Mail: Uploaded with plasq‘s Skitch! Shocking, to me, as the fool uses the word “dissed” withoutRead More…
The power of repetition
Do not watch this youtube clip if you dislike the idea a a comedy sketch featuring the work c— a few hundred times, do watch it if you want a US TV/politicalRead More…
i can has news?
New York’s Metroland news weekly knows that it’s lolcats you need to tell a story. Turns out lolcats are the story.