Unreliably Witnessed

What is this?

Wed, 26 Sep 2012 12:15:25 +0100

I’m trying to leave myself a trail of breadcrumbs so I can hopefully find my way back from wherever I am now. I’m not entirely sure. If this exists.

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Mon, 21 May 2012 19:53:46 +0100

"The online friendship of familiars and strangers is largely an illusion. It can be shaped to our..."

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 11:57:45 +0100

“The online friendship of familiars and strangers is largely an illusion. It can be shaped to our individual needs, deleted and blocked. An extension and validation of self, it is but one small step away from being kept company by a computer with a programme to please. Real talk to real people, in contrast, cannot be kept at bay with a click of the finger. Feelings and ideas, in all their contradictoriness and complexity, need to be expressed in words, tone of voice and facial expressions rather than being tapped out in text, tweet or email, with symbols representing emotions.”

- Terence Blacker: Don’t confuse talk with genuine conversation

Columnists: are you afraid of your readers?

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 20:14:09 +0100

Columnists: are you afraid of your readers?:

Just because I’ve become rather tired of seeing columnists taking to Twitter to whinge, behind readers’ backs, about the comments being left in response to their latest article. Maybe they should engage?

Real people live alone too

Sat, 31 Mar 2012 18:09:51 +0100

Real people live alone too:

The Guardian today published a rather good article on living alone - something that a growing number of people, including me, are doing. Unfortunately, in my not-so-humble but increasingly journalist-loathing opinion, the article had one major failing. So I wrote about it at the link below, naturally assuming that Guardian editors will rush to read it before exclaiming “You’re so right! What were we thinking?”

Romany WG - Abandoned Church (Philadelphia) [via paxmachina]

Sat, 31 Mar 2012 17:30:53 +0100

Romany WG - Abandoned Church (Philadelphia) [via paxmachina]

"However. You see what you did, young people. Yeah, you shunted out the cake growers and ushered in..."

Sun, 25 Mar 2012 22:25:06 +0100

“However. You see what you did, young people. Yeah, you shunted out the cake growers and ushered in some nightmarish Harry Potter spinoff featuring Slytherin overlords and magical Lib Dem owls. But … but it’s not our fault, you blubber, nagging old husks like you kept urging us to remember the 80s and we did and to be honest they seemed pretty cool. That, we say, is because for you the 80s are a grainy VHS mixtape of fish fingers, Thundercats and dicking about in paddling pools. They are not about the disposal of nationalised industry and the systematic destruction of the trade union movement.”

- The Tory nightmare: don’t say you weren’t warned | Ian Martin | The Guardian

[via @welsh_gas_doc on Twitter]

Sun, 25 Mar 2012 22:23:17 +0100

[via @welsh_gas_doc on Twitter]

Crime and the City Solution: The Dolphins and the Sharks

Sun, 25 Mar 2012 15:34:19 +0100

Crime and the City Solution: The Dolphins and the Sharks

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Sat, 24 Mar 2012 15:27:36 +0000

The power is in your hands, but just for the weekend

Sat, 24 Mar 2012 15:19:00 +0000

The power is in your hands, but just for the weekend:

This weekend, The Guardian is putting its new Open Journalism strategy into action with an Open Weekend for us, the great unwashed public. Except that, like almost all attempts at ‘people power’, I’m not quite convinced that this whole exercise is as open as they’d like you to think…

Mirel Wagner: No Death

Sat, 24 Mar 2012 00:24:33 +0000

Mirel Wagner: No Death

Lower Dens: Brains

Fri, 23 Mar 2012 17:45:46 +0000

Lower Dens: Brains

The NHS, Protest and Guilt

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 14:03:58 +0000

The NHS, Protest and Guilt

Military STD Posters, 1918-1945 | Retronaut

Sun, 18 Mar 2012 17:55:30 +0000

Military STD Posters, 1918-1945 | Retronaut

Sun, 18 Mar 2012 17:55:02 +0000

Military STD Posters, 1918-1945 | Retronaut

Where's _why?

Sun, 18 Mar 2012 14:30:00 +0000

Where's _why?:

“Finally, late in my reporting, I got word back-channeled to me from another Salt Lake City programmer: Jonathan is _why, he is fine, and he just wants to be left alone.”

Plan B: Ill Manors Why Plan B’s Ill Manors is the...

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 18:30:00 +0000

Plan B: Ill Manors

Why Plan B’s Ill Manors is the greatest British protest song in years

I wouldn’t claim that this song is quite my kind of thing, because it isn’t. I think, also, that the Dorian Lynskey article linked above gives the track far too rapturous a reception. Having said all that, it’s a relief to see a successful music artist addressing the social situation across the UK when so many others - the majority, in fact - remain resolutely silent.

"Introversion – along with its cousins sensitivity, seriousness, and shyness – is now a second-class..."

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 19:22:30 +0000

“Introversion – along with its cousins sensitivity, seriousness, and shyness – is now a second-class personality trait, somewhere between a disappointment and a pathology. Introverts living under the Extrovert Ideal are like women in a man’s world, discounted because of a trait that goes to the core of who they are. Extroversion is an enormously appealing personality style, but we’ve turned it into an oppressive standard to which most of us feel we must conform.”

- Why the world needs introverts | The Guardian

[via paperbackgirl]

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 13:05:11 +0000

[via paperbackgirl]