Month: July 2007

  • Independent investigations

    When will someone not in receipt of a BBC pension conduct an ‘independent’ investigation? [Guardian]

  • Tag clouding Gordon Brown

    Ever wondered what Gordon Brown’s buzz words were? Here’s a great new tool to show you exactly what’s on the mind of Britain’s new prime minister [Hat tip: Aron Pilhofer]: This is a one-word tag cloud of his speeches to date, all thanks to a great visualization tool called many eyes. A two-word cloud lets…

  • Seymour Hersh

    Seymour Hersh gave today’s keynote at the investigative journalism summer school. His only stipulation? Off the record. Still what I can say is that investigative journalism keeps you pretty spry…and if you want an indication of the way he thinks, this is from the New Yorker in 2005.

  • Inside the surge

    If you haven’t seen Sean Smith’s film from Baghdad then do yourself a favour and check it out. Smith is a Guardian photographer who’s been shooting video whilst on an embed with a US outfit.I don’t urge you to watch it with a view to persuading you of the sense or otherwise of the US…