Blog FAQ

Q1 When did you start and why?

I star­ted this blog on 22 Octo­ber, 2006 on Blog­ger. It was an effort to demon­strate two things to myself: 1) that I could actu­ally write reg­u­larly, and 2) grapple per­son­ally with some of the micro-niggles of main­tain­ing an online space.

Q2 What do you blog about?

Chiefly about the news busi­ness and the media — the organ­isa­tions, the people, the tech­no­logy, the polit­ics and what’s being repor­ted. Just hit the ‘search’ box. I know it’s too wide an area, but…

My main interest remains stor­ies — about energy, cli­mate, pop­u­la­tion, tech­no­logy and the future — I tend to blog about them under ‘Off Topic.’ Oh, and pigs.

Q3 Do the opin­ions expressed here reflect those of your employ­ers past or present?

Some­times they don’t even reflect my own.

Q4 Any disclosures?

The cen­sor­ship on this blog is all of the self-imposed vari­ety. I own piti­fully few shares in Sky, have an ITN pen­sion and I pay the BBC licence fee. I con­sult — which involves sign­ing NDAs. That’s life.

Q5 Can I trust this blog?

What you really means is ‘How reli­able is this blog?’ About as reli­able as some­thing pro­duced and edited by one dis­trac­ted indi­vidual. I try and link to what I write about. Go check.

Q6 Would you kindly ‘big up’ my product or company?

The tone of this blog is not suited to boos­t­er­ism, but thank you for your interest.

Q7 I like the look of your blog. Was it lov­ingly hand-coded?

I did all of it. Except for the bit I bought off-the-shelf from designer Chris Pear­son. This par­tic­u­lar tem­plate is called Thesis, and very nice it is too.

The default text font is Geor­gia, and the heads are in Rock­well, although I’d prefer to use Archer.

The col­our palette is themed around hex #D56A00 (RGB 213, 106, 0). Don’t ask why I star­ted there. I just did.