Why is TV reviewing dying on its knees? The Daily Telegraph has just bid farewell to its TV reviewer. Is television no longer worthy of criticism? Buzz. Dumb question.
What actually has happened is that reviewing has been bypassed altogether. Take Channel 5’s Strangelove: Married to the Eiffel Tower*, a programme which featured women who claimed to be married to — yes — the Eiffel Tower and the Berlin Wall. Continue reading
I know there’s nothing like being late to a party, but if you’re still wondering how to make sense of Twitter, then let me share a couple of tips.
You need Twhirl — think IM interface — an RSS reader and Tweetscan/Summize/Twitbuzz. Then you can set up custom searches on Tweetscan, dump them into a reader, and manage your tweets with the IM interface. As culinary philanthropist Gordon Ramsay would say: — Twitter. Done.
Update: Try Twitscoop for a live Twitter tag cloud.
I met the team the team behind What The Papers Say up in Manchester before Christmas, helping to sift through the list for their annual awards. Continue reading