5 Steps to List Post Redemption

Friday, 19 March 2010, 11:14 | Category : Blogging
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The poor old list post has come in for some stick recently through no fault of it’s own.  Once the hottest post in Blogtown, it’s now belittled and besmirched.
A year ago list posts were all the rage, and many pixels were devoted to urging newbie bloggers to exploit them at every available opportunity. Unfortunately, that [...]

The BNP, Intense Debate and Me

Wednesday, 10 March 2010, 16:10 | Category : Politics, WordPress
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Nasty Nick boogies at the BNP AGM. He can move, he can move, he can really move/From his head right down to his black bovver boots.

A couple of days ago, a research session on the interwebs led me to the BNP website – it was relevant, I don’t hang out there* – and I [...]

Fancy a grilling? (I’m looking for interview subjects)

Saturday, 30 January 2010, 2:50 | Category : Blogging, Writing
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Keeping my fingers crossed this will post – I switched isps this week and the connection with the new one is even more precarious than the last. I’ll tell you about that next time though, because this time I’m looking for volunteers.
I’ve decided I need to develop my interview technique, or to be [...]

Journalists who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones

Unless you live in a cave, you can’t have failed to miss the outrage surrounding Jan Moir’s pernicious Daily Mail ‘article’ about the death of Stephen Gately*. I’m not going to post a rebuttal this late in the day – that’s already been done to great effect elsewhere – but I do want to [...]