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BBC NEWS | School Report | News Day 2010
This is such a great project--thousands of schoolkids report the news with help from the BBC.
journalism  news  schools  bbc 
march 2010 by mottram
Yorkshire Ripper loves Wii Bowling
The headline makes me wish The Day Today was still on telly.
funny  news 
january 2010 by mottram
BBC NEWS | UK | England | Cambridgeshire | Love letter jigsaw takes 15 years
Sweet story, even if it shamelessly plugs a vanity publishing outfit and learndirect.
news  uk 
december 2008 by mottram
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Clarkson joke sparks complaints
Looks like funny jokes on the BBC will have to be banned.
news  media  bbc  comedy 
november 2008 by mottram
The Daily Beast
New news site from Tina Brown. Looks good, reads okay.
politics  news  media 
october 2008 by mottram
Bid To Remove Branding And Logos From Cigarette Packets (from The Herald )
So they want to discourage smoking by making fag packets look better? Clever.
health  smoking  uk  politics  news 
may 2008 by mottram
What the Papers Say axed by BBC after 52 years | Media | guardian.co.uk
Fuckers. I've been watching for as long as I can remember.
news  bbc  telly  print  media 
may 2008 by mottram
Teenager faces prosecution for calling Scientology 'cult'
Which is fucking obscene. Not least because Scientology is, by any common definition of the words, both dangerous and a cult.
censorship  cult  freedom  politics  uk  news  scientology 
may 2008 by mottram
Lending A Compassionate Ear And Some Flipflops (from The Herald )  [404]
'Street Pastors' on the streets of Perth, Dundee and Aberdeen. (They seem okay - more shoulder for pissed people to cry on than anything else.)
religion  news  scotland 
may 2008 by mottram
60% of Editors Blog comments hate the BBC News redesign - currybetdotnet - 2 April, 2008
Analysis of the response to the new design. (I like it, except the fixed width.)
bbc  design  web  news 
april 2008 by mottram
Chipwrapper - Search UK newspapers
A special search engine/RSS feed generator for UK newspapers (though it's missing all the Scottish papers, for some reason).
news  uk  newspapers 
september 2007 by mottram
News - Edinburgh International Film Festival  [404]
The EIFF will be held in June from next year. Crikey!
eiff  edinburgh  festivals  news 
august 2007 by mottram
Complete Tosh, by Neil McIntosh: Calling it as your readers would  [404]
Paisley Daily Express brands brainless twat a 'brainless twat'.
funny  media  local  paisley  news 
july 2007 by mottram
First Post from Ben Hammersley  [404]
Ben Hammersly is doing some, erm, 'Web 2.0 reporting' to augment broadcasts on News 24 and the World Service - Flickr pics, del.icio.us links and Youtube videos.
web  news  reporting 
june 2007 by mottram
Planet OpenID
OpenID news aggregated.
openid  news 
january 2007 by mottram
BBC NEWS | Magazine Monitor
"100 things we didn't know last year."
news  facts  factoids 
january 2007 by mottram
The Herald  [404]
The Herald is launching a new digital edition: "A new facsimile edition of The Herald is launching later this month. It will be available anytime, anywhere, giving you on-screen access to all of the printed content every Monday to Saturday from 6am."
digital  edition  herald  news  newspapers  media 
july 2006 by mottram
BBC NEWS | Most Popular Now | Live Graph
Fancy new BBC news thing that lets you watch the flow of popular stories and videos. Nice.
bbc  news 
june 2006 by mottram
newswireless.net .:. Blog .:. That
That cabbie who was interviewed by the Beeb after a mix up? Not a cabbie.
news  funny 
may 2006 by mottram
FeedXs
This is essentially a hosted weblogging app that outputs only a RSS feed, no website. Interesting. (I did the same with my old podcast, using XSLT to magic up a web page for anyone who happened upon the feed.)
weblogs  news  feeds  RSS  atom  syndication  publishing  * 
may 2006 by mottram
City marks link with its Russian twin - Evening Times  [404]
A SERIES of cultural and civic events were launched today to mark the 20th anniversary of Glasgow's twinning link with Russian city Rostov-on-Don.
news  russia  glasgow  anniversary 
may 2006 by mottram
Mood-News [ Proof of Concept ]
BBC News Headlines Auto-Classified as Good, Bad or Neutral.
news  mood  BBC 
march 2006 by mottram
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Radio comedian Linda Smith dies
"Comic Linda Smith, a regular panellist on BBC Radio 4's The News Quiz, has died of cancer at the age of 48."
sad  obituaries  comedians  news 
february 2006 by mottram
channel4.com - news - about us - Podcasts
Channel 4 News jump on the podcast bandwagon - the first 'cast is a special report by Jon Snow on cannabis and mental health. (Good stuff - my radio-addict ears cannot bear amateur podcasts, so this will join various BBC feeds in iTunes.)
radio  podcasting  podcasts  podcast  channel4  news  snow  media 
january 2006 by mottram
Mailwatch Vote 2005  [404]
Vote for your fave Daily Mail headline. Quite shocking if the Mail doesn't cross your path - most are only just shy of 'Send the Pakis home!' or 'Gyppos smell of wee!' (peppered with the occasional 'Princess Di was a motherfucking saint: LICK HER CORPSE!'
racism  headlines  news  mail  newspapers  media  uk  depressing  fascists  diana  bibble 
january 2006 by mottram
channel4.com - News  [404]
Baroness Thatcher admitted to hospital - get worse soon.
thatcher  ill  news 
december 2005 by mottram
When murder hits the blogosphere - Tech News & Reviews - MSNBC.com
Early one morning a few weeks ago, Kara Borden, a 14-year-old from Lititz, Pa., logged onto MySpace. The young, bubbly, blond-haired, brown-eyed homeschooled high school freshman had a profile on the popular networking site. Her page was brightly colored
blog  myspace  crime  news 
december 2005 by mottram
Diggdot.us - digg / slashdot / del.icio.us popular
A nice combination of digg (halfwits and children shouting), Slashdot (halfwits and clever people shouting) and del.icio.us (no shouting).
slashdot  del.icio.us  digg  aggregation  news  links 
november 2005 by mottram
Listening to the Voices: Maggie’s Centres (23/03/05)  [404]
"The UK-based extremist evangelical Christian organisation have been enjoying increasing media coverage since they protested against the broadcast of Jerry Springer the Opera. This site works as a resource listing links on their activities and what is sai
fundamentalists  fundamentalism  christian  christian-voice  uk  news  politics  commons 
october 2005 by mottram
Salon.com Life | Just like a woman
"Sidore is a homebody, but then, she couldn't leave the comfort of the bed she shares with Davecat even if she wanted to because Sidore is a 100-pound solid silicone Real Doll"
psychology  news  sex  realdoll 
october 2005 by mottram
slightly lost in the world: All about Christian Voice  [404]
"Following ongoing posts about this group by Zefrog, Silencing Stephen Green Is his most recent entry. I've decided to add my own contribution to this by starting a summary of links that detail this group."
christian-voice  christianity  fundamentalist  fundamentalism  uk  news 
october 2005 by mottram
ROLLYO
With Rollyo, you can easily create your own custom search engines, and explore and save those created by others.
search  weblogs  news 
september 2005 by mottram
At one Swedish library, you can borrow books%u2014and a lesbian | News | Advocate.com
A Swedish library, realizing that books are not the only things being judged by their covers, will give visitors a different opportunity this weekend%u2014to borrow a Muslim, a lesbian, or a Dane.
culture  news  politics  sweden 
august 2005 by mottram
I Am Fucking Terrified
In response to We'reNotAfraid.com
b3ta  funny  news  london 
july 2005 by mottram
Google Video Search
Fox News considers Arab people non-regular.
fox  news  london  weird  racist 
july 2005 by mottram
/Alfies Moblog
Folk escaping the tube.
london  terror  attack  news 
july 2005 by mottram
Flickr to Add Print to Photo Service
Neato. How about providing a feature that allows for downloading a full backup of all photos before adding frippery like this, eh, Flickr?
flickr  photographs  print  books  news 
june 2005 by mottram
BBC NEWS + del.icio.us
Tag pages on BBC news with del.icio.us (doesn't seem to work at time of writing)
del.icio.us  bbc  tags  tagging  news 
may 2005 by mottram
Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Bush playlist puzzles pundits
The fact that I have a reasonable number of songs on my iPod in common with George Bush fills me with a strange dread.
news  ipod  apple  politics  bush  funny 
april 2005 by mottram
Downing Street Says...: Election
I was about to link to Downing Street Says as a handy source of election news. Not so, it seems.
politics  election  election2005  news 
april 2005 by mottram
Flickr: Photos from blairwatchproject
The Grauniad Blair Watch Project on Flickr - off to a bad start, sadly.
guardian  news  moblogging  election  election2005  blair  labour  flickr 
april 2005 by mottram
Introducing the Blair watch project from Guardian Unlimited: Election 2005
The Grauniad asks readers to mail cameraphone snaps of Mr. Tony to their Flickr account. They just moved from being the fastest to report web trends to getting stuck right in the thick of things.
guardian  news  moblogging  election  election2005  blair  labour 
april 2005 by mottram
[delicious-discuss] big news
Joshua makes del.icio.us the day job.
del.icio.us  news 
march 2005 by mottram
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