[Bristol Editor] Is your website anti-social?

Guest Blog By Rick O’Neill, Creative Director, www.looktouchfeel.co.uk Build it and they will come, right?  Sorry, wrong. And even if they come – will they ever come BACK? Embarking upon a new webs...

[Tabloid Watch] 'It's a lie'

A Sun 'exclusive' by Ben Duffy reveals:The article explains:Comedian David Baddiel is to take Class A drugs live on telly as part of a scientific study for a new show. The Three Lions on a Shirt st...

[Shane Richmond] ‘We are rigging the energy market’, admits Ed Davey

I suppose it had to happen. There I was, listening to Ed Davey, the new(ish) Energy and Climate Change Secretary, emphasising his determination to “keep the lights on”, when those in his Whitehall ...

[Rick Waghorn] The man from Google insists we need to cling to a compass; that we still need to search for our futures in local. Really? My certainty comes from a map, not an algorithm…

As is the wont on these occasions, I always feel slightly beholden to ‘take away’ something from the various conference spaces you end up in. Way back when it was even one of your own… #1000flowers...

[Adam Tinworth] NEXT Berlin 2012 - liveblogs

Ah, I love NEXT. Unlike many tech-based conferences, which are very rooted in the now, they have a remarkable knack of looking about two years into the future, and giving you a sense of what the wo...

[Jeff Jarvis] News articles as assets and paths

This is the start of a new project I’m working on to brainstorm new forms, relationships, and (business) models for news. Responding to a current discussion on Twitter among @AntDeRosa, @felixsalmo...

[Adam Tinworth] Like Minds Exeter 2012 Liveblogs - day two

Links to my liveblogs of day two of Like Minds Exeter 2012MorningJohn Rosling: is the chief executive the chief entrepreneur - an inspiring talk on being an inspring leader (and how to lead rather ...

[Jeff Jarvis] The (not so) daily news

I have more conflicts than a Louisiana politician when it comes to the news of the New Orleans Times-Picayune reducing its frequency from seven to three days a week: I was in charge of digital cont...

[The Media Blog] They didn't...?

You would have to travel to a lot of cities and read a lot of newspapers before you ever found a layout as bad as this horribly inappropriate front page from the Liverpool Echo: (Hat tip Andy Thorn...

[Shane Richmond] When archaeologists are looking for evidence of why Europe collapsed, they will stumble upon an EU tax demand

[Shane Richmond] Old people in care homes? Sorry, but they’re way too uncool for digital entrepreneurs

From Saturday’s Daily Telegraph I don’t know about you, but the sight of orange-skinned celebrities raising money for “charidee” on telly has me reaching for a sick bag rather than my wallet. But p...

[Shane Richmond] If this is Britain’s energy policy, we’re toast

“Global warming” is SO totally over. Even President Obama concedes this now. The problem is that after twenty years or more of infectious drivel from the richly-funded global junk science community...

[Tabloid Watch] The Express and arthritis (cont.)

Another day, another health 'cure' story from Jo Willey and the Daily Express:This is not the same pill that the Express trumpeted as stopping arthritis pain on 25 April:And on 9 May, the paper did...

[Mindy McAdams] Every journalist is a copy editor (or needs to be)

As print/online newsrooms evolve, the role of copyediting (and the people who copyedit) is changing. Steve Buttry, director of community engagement and social media at Journal Register Co., just wr...

[Shane Richmond] A few ‘EU veto moments’ won’t be enough to keep the Tory base happy

I was raised thinking I was a Tory. I can clearly remember defending my Dad’s choice to vote for John Major in 1997 aged 10 (cool, I know). I was told that the Tories would look out for the Huggins...

[Jon Slattery] NUJ facing 'severe financial crisis' says Stanistreet

The NUJ is facing a severe financial crisis and could be insolvent by October, according to a Rescue Plan drawn up by general secretary Michelle Stanistreet (pictured).The Rescue Plan document also...

[Shane Richmond] If Britain had joined the euro

“Just think where we would be if Britain had joined the euro”, someone recently said to me at a City lunch. There is actually a very obvious answer to this proposition – out of it. If Britain had j...

[Shane Richmond] Our obsession with young politicians is damaging Britain

As Chancellor of the Exchequer Nigel Lawson dismissed some of his critics as “teenage scribblers”. This was only a slight exaggeration. Now the political world is thronged with bright young things ...

[Tabloid Watch] Star's ad campaign for Big Brother begins

The front of today's Daily Star claims there is a 'Fury over Big Bro live sex show':The article, by Peter Dyke, begins:Big Brother bosses will spark a major controversy by screening a live sex show...

[Shane Richmond] How can we help children in care? Should we be sending them to boarding school?

Politicians talk a lot about fighting poverty and spreading opportunity. And there are endless arguments about how to best to do that. What should the top priority be? What would help the most? But...