Today, there is a new force for gender equality in the world. Well, it’s an attempt at one… It is: Misogyny Watch!
This is a new project and I’m quite excited about it. Here’s what it’s for.
It seemed to me that while there’s often plenty of righteous high profile reaction to mainstream media when they publish [...]

The last issue of Plan B – June 2009
Today we present one sad thought and one happy thought. In that order.
Here’s the sad one. It’s the end of an era for music fans.
Well, the sort of music fans who read the eclectic, hyperbolic and occasionally life-altering Plan B magazine. ‘Real music fans’, I’d call [...]

Flying visit. Whoosh!
Please accept these links with my compliments:
Putting the human back into humanity: Tweenbots

You’ll have seen this before, but it remains a delight: Chris Applegate’s Daily Mail-O-Matic

Stitch hikers guide: Knitted Landscape.

That’s all for now, but there’s a glittering video treat lined up for you tomorrow. I’d go as far as to say spangly.
See [...]

Think Blogworld is a fluffy, cuddly place full of passionate idealists pioneering the way to a new media democracy? Think again.
Adam Curtis, maker of films like The Power of Nightmares and The Century of the Self, previously told The Register that bloggers are “bullies” without lives, whose input – rather than opening up conversation on [...]

Gracious, didn’t that last post reek of bloggy petulance? A right old toys/pram exodus.
But hell’s bells, I can’t just stand by while Ash ‘n’ Dem’s lovelorn tweets are besmirched.
I’m half-serious about that too. OK, two-fifths.
Well, let’s put it down to plain old British pro-underdog belligerence and say no more about it.
Anyway, it isn’t really [...]

The Observer office must be ringing with anxiety this week. Two of its journalists have lashed out at The Internet – or rather, user-generated content – in one issue.
Nick Cohen rails against bloggers in a piece called ‘Who would you rather trust – the BBC or a blogger?’
Do you really want that answered, Nick?
In what [...]