Posts Tagged: Writing

There’s been a lot of chatter on Twitter and blogs about Paul Boutin’s Wired article Twitter, Flickr, Facebook Make Blogs Look So 2004  over the last day or so, but I was most interested in Rory Cellan-Jones’ response Is blogging dead? on the BBC website. Rory clearly believes that blogging is not yet dead andContinue Reading ›

This isn’t one of those “sorry for not blogging for a while, I’ll be back soon” posts but it is a distant relative. I rather think that I must be coming down with a case of writers block; I just don’t seem to have anything I feel the need to write about at the moment.Continue Reading ›

I’ve just watched the first episode of Can’t Read Can’t Write a new documentary series on Channel 4. The series follows a group of adults aged between 21 and 58 that can’t as the title says read or write. I am shocked and disgusted that a person can be allowed to leave school without evenContinue Reading ›

Brilliant cartoon from The Rut. Via Hicksdesign

I watched Scum for the first time recently. It is a great film, tough to watch in places, and confirmed to me what I had always suspected – I wouldn’t last 10 minutes in prison. However, it did make me think about the hierarchical, structured environment in which I find myself daily – the corporateContinue Reading ›

Fresh morning air and low summer sun, the air not yet polluted by the day, cool on my face and crisp in my lungs, the beauty of the early morning.