Excellent piece by the BBC's Rory Cellan-Jones on modern journalism and technology.

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2009/11/hitech_hacks.html

However, note - once again - the almost insane emphasis on speed (and the associated use of tech) at the potential cost of other journalistic 'values':

"I told them [student journalists in

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Follow-ups to today's e-mail deluge.

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1. Climate change (bollocks): http://nasblog.org/2009/11/23/update-on-hackers-release-of-files-suggesting-academic-global-warming-conspiracy/

2. My entry on the 9th of this month, regarding a potential Murdoch deal with Bing to squeeze out Google (http://community.livejournal.com/anti_gravitas/353825.html) vs. today's Financial Times: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a243c8b2-d79b-11de-b578-00144feabdc0.html

3. Forum commentary (off-forum). This used to be less of a hot potato before everyone went soft in the head, and bought the Web 2.0 nightmare dream, but the butthurt continues to be amusing. Most of you are smart enough to realize that I take a contrary view from the outright proselytizers, but even people like Doug Cornelius piss me off with their happy-clappy, global talking shop aesthetics: "Part of web 2.0 and social media is the ability for readers to engage writers and other readers of their stories." (http://www.compliancebuilding.com/2009/05/22/corresponding-with-cornelius-my-comments-elsewhere/).

Fuck chit-chatting, and fuck "engagement". These people need to either wise up, and cotton on to the fact that not everyone has something equal to offer, or just get their arses over to some little community day care centre, where they can hang out with other incontinent old ladies, and piss their afternoons away in a comforting hot air environment.

Jesus...

Lambs to the slaughter, keepin' it real. (Or at least hideously in-house.)

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Was it bang on cue?

http://community.livejournal.com/academics_anon/1688888.html

No, D. Probably not. Besides, the distinction between a day care centre and a hot air salon is more marked than you might appreciate.

(And I'm sticking with the policy of keeping colonials off the RG boards - at least until they've stopped sucking their thumbs so damned loudly.)