Inappropriate language, the use thereof, has become something of a bugbear of mine in recent days (and, you’ll be pleased to note, the bugbear of…
A couple of months ago I was finally, for the first time in my life, able to use the word “journalist” as my job title…
This is Karen Krisanovich. Karen, as you can see from her website which I have linked above, is a writer; radio and TV broadcaster; American…
Is there a difference between male and female people? Is there? Seriously. I have yet to identify a single character trait I would attribute solely…
I’m having to keep something of a low profile on the internet today. You see, the latest season of my favourite show, Castle ended in…
God, you go away for a weekend and Google starts pulling music blogs down. Again. That old DCMA chestnut is becoming something like a six-monthly…
I mentioned a couple of weeks back that I was interested in attending The Herald Future of the Media debate, as part of Glasgow’s Aye…
Hey, has anybody got their eye on anything at Aye Write!, Glasgow’s book festival, which is on next month? Because, as much as I adore…
The Guardian is gagged from reporting Parliamentary proceedings, or to put it in the paper’s own words: [l]egal obstacles, which cannot be identified, involve proceedings,…
As much as the creation of web 2.0 jargon by prefixing perfectly acceptable words with the prefix “tw-” is one of my least favourite 2009…
It’s been a strange month for the music press. First Paste magazine asks its readers and subscribers to donate and save the magazine (I’ve never…
While I don’t think she will be throwing out her trusty VCR for the forseeable future, it’s safe to say that the arrival yesterday of…
