Facebook and the share link – why they still own us forever

After electronically boring poor Laura Oliver to tears yesterday about Facebook, and then waking up this morning to discover they’ve revoked their terms because of the furore, I thought I’d make use of the thousands of words I’ve written as a post.
First, I can see the argument that legally Facebook needs to be licensed to [...]

Subs v Greenslade (part three)

Roy may think that online ‘page design is irrelevant, of course.’ Of course it’s irrelevant if you want your readers to miss half your content. Of course its irrelevant if you want your site to be grey and boring, or your text to look so dull your readers drift off halfway down the page. But should it be irrelevant? No, absolutely not.

Greenslade v subs (part two)

No sooner had I finished part one than Roy posted this.
There are two things here that I would like to address:
1> Subbing can be competently performed by people who have no especial link with a given paper.

I’d say adequately. Not competently. But here’s a thing. A good local paper stands for something. It has an [...]

Subs v Greenslade (part one)

I’m sure Roy, experienced whipper-upper of storms that he is, knew exactly what he was doing when he said this.

“There are two kinds of sub-editors,” he said. “Sub-editors that work on local and regional newspapers, that work on a template – that can be outsourced elsewhere.

“Then there are creative people who put together our popular, mass-market papers, such as The Sun. Those types of subs do creative work – but they are largely in a minority”.

Blogging the weather: brilliant or stupid?

We’ve been using CoverItLive for football games for some time now, but I’ve never managed to persuade the news desk to utilise it for breaking news stories or for liveblogging meetings.
So when it snowed last week I thought it would be a perfect opportunity to show them what I meant.
The first snow day we didn’t [...]