Neil Postman, who wrote Amusing Ourselves to Death, might have been grimly amused to see Sir Howard Stringer recommending that BBC News online emulate Buzzfeed. Now there may be some very general principles that the BBC can learn from about creating engaging, sharable content. But the news should be very different from cat photos and […]
One of the items in the news recently that I’ve been particularly interested in is the elections in Zimbabwe. Back home in North Wales, I know a family through church who fled the country because of the troubles there, and so it’s recent woes have all the more immediacy for me knowing some of those […]
Gordon Brown ruled out an early General Election today, ending weeks of speculation. But this game of political chicken, designed to unsettled the Conservative party, has backfired on the Prime Minister, with this decision now seeming like a climbdown. A November election was never a likely prospect, and only the ephemeral highs of mid-conference polls […]
Yesterday marked 50 years of the space-age, half a century since Sputnik became the first human object to be put in orbit around the Earth. What I want to know is where are our day-trips to the Moon? What happened to getting to work by jetpack, or boldly going where no-one has gone before? It […]
Well, when I say exclusive, I’ve just posted this to Outpost Gallifrey, so every Internet-savvy fan will probably know within 24 hours! I was having a look at The Agency website, which has the agents for writers including Russell T Davies, Paul Abbott and many others. It lists their current projects, and according to the […]
My previous blog post on the immaturity of the evangelical mind was the first post in almost a month, and a lot has happened both in my life and the world over that time. I’ve been rather busy of late. First up was just over a week’s holiday with my family, to Holland but stopping […]