Tag Archives: Television in the United Kingdom

Another Newsmapping Site: newsQuakes

By | November 23, 2011

Just got an email from Ronan Cremin, who points me to his newsQuakes: world news for the lazy. Hover over the quakes to see the headlines, click to go to actual news article. As Ronan says in his email, newsQuakes ‘uses a similar approach to Buzztracker, but predates it by about 3 years. Not as… Read More »

Bob’s Background

By | November 23, 2011

Am reading Griff Rhys-Jones’ To The Baltic With Bob which is not quite as hilarious as the blurb promises, but has its moments: Bob goes along to a London art school to apply as a mature student on a computer graphics course: ‘What’s your background?’ asked the professor who interviewed him. Bob swivelled in his chair… Read More »