The Today programme are featuring a team of bloggers over the Christmas period who’s job is to blog the output of the programme and come in from time to time to talk about various aspects of the blogging game. This morning they had Tim Ireland, manic genius behind bloggerheads and several senior MP blogging efforts and Judy from Adloyada talking about whether bloggers have any power (sound file).
Here’s a great review of a fascinating book (H/T reader Rory) on how the Internet is destroying our capacity for intelligent, focused and critical thought. It opens thus: …here is the news that Ulin brings in this slim, meandering book: that reading is “an act of contemplation”; that such an act becomes more difficult in [...] read our review »
Having somehow managed to avoid watching a single episode of the widely praised West Wing TV series I was delighted to discover the entire Box set in my Christmas stocking – and with enough spare time over the holidays to give it a good lash. But with 10 episodes of the first series under my [...] read our review »