Read Terence Blacker’s piece in the Independent yesterday complaining about irresponsible bloggers – “in the blogosphere there is no accountability”. I can see the argument up to a point, but surely blogs are ‘community policed’, where credibility can quickly ebb away? Maybe this is an opportunity for journos and bloggers to get together, as the threat of bloggers was also voiced to me by another journalist recently who expressed anxiety that bloggers are eating away at their livelihood.
Yearly Archives: 2006
1001 inventions = 1002 coincidences
Great English to Arabic word game on the 1001 Muslim inventions website which generates associated pics and links (Flickr/Amazon/Wikipedia/Google) which are randomly updated – and from another creative perspective it’s effectively a simple online ‘coincidence generator’ (eg see below of another such generator!). But who’s the customer?