Archive for March, 2008
Complacency and indifference
Some people really seem to care about issues affecting the greater good and can often be overheard sipping ethically traded coffee at cafes around the city proclaiming with a healthy dose of indignation their views on one crucial issue or another. “They are ruining our rivers”, they cry, “and polluting the atmosphere”.
Often [...]
Want to grow, grow up to be, be a debaser
What a week it has been; we have laughed, we have cried, we have really started to make a difference to the supply of news online. The feelings are probably further down the track than we actually are, but it feels good nonetheless.
Mum is up tonight and I am off work tomorrow – [...]
Something to read for later
http://www.metafilter.com/69637/The-Internet-is-a-Copy-Machine
Read More..>>I keep the ends out for the tie that binds
This post at Simple and Loveable has got me thinking.
The carrion cry of the dying stages of last century was integrated communications, and this school of thought posited the notion that all of an organisation’s messaging should come from a central strategic communications strategy supported by mass media advertising. And to be fair when [...]
Things I hate today
People who put their fucking babies in photos with them on Facebook, particularly when they make it their profile picture. Sure you may think that your new kid is the best baby of all time and the future saviour of the human race; but it isn’t. Get over it. Move on.
People [...]
The quick and the dead
Inside the media industry you hear the term news judgment bandied about a lot. It is an ephemeral concept born by PR practitioners, journalists, sub editors and editors; it surrounds us and penetrates us. It binds the industry together.
It is the force that makes a press officer wary of a journalist’s [...]
She cries “Where have all Papa’s heroes gone?”
The idea of a universal acid is of a corrosive force so strong it eats through everything it comes in contact with; it cannot be contained, as any container would be eaten up by the omnipotent acidity within.
The universal acid could not exist in this world, or else all would succumb to its unstoppable [...]