Entries from November 2009

30/11/2009

Guardian Student Media Conference 2009: Ten things we learnt

Alan Rusbridger is sceptical about paying for online news, but is welcome to ideas – Whilst he admitted that he has ‘no idea whether it’s going to work’ the Guardian editor-in-chief expressed some slight concern about Rupert Murdoch’s plans. He said that his ideas ‘may be right but it’s not a given’ and he hopes [...]

25/11/2009

#GSMC 09

Today’s Guardian Student Media Conference at King’s Place, pictured above, was very good. Well worth the early wake up call and well worth steep travel prices to get into London. I’ll post more in the forthcoming days (and I’m doing a feature about it for Canvas, the uni newspaper) but here’s all my tweets from [...]

23/11/2009

Top Gear make an electric car called Geoff

Top Gear hasn’t been consistently good for quite a while but the electric car segment last night reminded me of why it used to be a must-see:

Knowing the bots it’ll get taken down at some point but for now, enjoy.

21/11/2009

Planning for 2010

I don’t know if it’s a really pathetic thing to begin planning for 2010, but that is currently what I’m doing amidst all the other work I have to get done before Christmas. I’m trying to give myself a list of things to do during the Christmas break and I’ve managed to narrow it down [...]

19/11/2009

Guardian Student Media Conference

Next week I’m in London for the Student Media Conference that is being organised by The Guardian. It’s taking place in central London on the 25th November (that will the Wednesday of next week) and will feature a series of seminars and discussions about subjects relating, in particular, to student journalists, and there is very [...]