adrian monck

Month: May 2008

  • Postman on technology

    I recently came across this brief essay from the late, great Neil Postman. You might enjoy it. His five conclusions below. First, that we always pay a price for technology; the greater the technology, the greater the price. Second, that there are always winners and losers, and that the winners always try to persuade the…

  • Whinges from Wikileaks

    The guys at Wikileaks (a site I much admire) are not happy. And instead of bearing their unhappiness stoically, they are having a whinge. If they don’t press release stuff, it doesn’t get reported. Journalists are lazy. Bloggers are windbags. None of us escape.

  • Thoughts on the BBC rebrand

    From Press Gazette: The £550,000 question – do you need to rebrand your customer-facing side when you reorganise your back office?Peter Horrocks’ first major move, since his elevation to BBC newsroom supremo, has been to hand over half a million quid in consulting cash to Martin Lambie-Nairn.