adrian monck

Month: October 2007

  • Off topic: great career advice

    Marc Andreessen has been posting some career advice. Here is a just a taste: What should I study in college? Some people argue that college will be your one chance in life to pursue your passion — to spend four years doing nothing but studying whatever you love the most, whether that’s Renaissance literature or…

  • What price CNN? Hardball on Israeli cable…

    Want to see the business battle over news in the raw? You have to go to Israel, where they hold these negotiations in public. This is from Haaretz: Every few months in the past two years, the HOT cable company has announced it will stop broadcasting popular television channels like BBC Prime, Hallmark and National…

  • Guardian: in America, not in American

    Launches today. It is in America, but not in American. Which to me is a missed opportunity, given my previous solo campaign (actually blog post) to adopt American English as the online standard. Although English (US) has its uglinesses, the Americans care far more about English than we do, as Inigo Thomas admits in his…

  • The return of News At Ten

    Now, at least, I can say to people under 30 that I once worked on News At Ten and they won’t gaze blankly back at me. (Then again, maybe it’s just the way I say it.)So if you wondered where the Dermot-sized gap at Sky News was coming from, now you know. Julie Etchingham will…