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Glastonbury 2009
As of tomorrow, I will be spending a very long, very drunken weekend at the Glastonbury Festival, having won a pair of VIP tickets in a competition at work. Yesterday. Evening. As you can imagine, this has left me feeling more than a little unprepared.
Currently, I don’t have a tent, sleeping bag, sleeping mat, [...]
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Tags: camping at glastonbury, glastonbury 2009, packing list for glastonbury, VIP glastonbury
The ‘no-electricity’ party
So last night I accompanied my housemate to a Disconnected, where they claim to disconnect the venue from the mains and have a power cut party in the dark. Bring your own torches we were told. No flash, no gash as your typical toilet attendant may proffer (thankfully they didn’t.) This was to be the [...]
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Tags: disconnected, no electricity party, party in the dark, pitchblack rave, shoreditch club night, shoreditch disconnected, torch party
As an opinionated fan of Reading F.C that doesn’t wish to clutter up my more regular blog with the constant goings on of my football club, I have set up a new blog where I can witter on about that all day. If you’re interested, caress this lovely link with your mouse and click.
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Tags: new reading manager, reading fc, steve coppell successor, The Reading Fan
The Championship has been nothing if not a strange division this season. For long periods of the year, it seemed as though every club was doing their utmost not to achieve promotion to the Premier League, but only one club has sustained any kind of form and they are the ones who this afternoon celebrate [...]
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Tags: ebanks-blake, premier league, promotion, wolverhamption wanderers, wolves
The Language of Rape
On Sunday evening, Match of the Day 2 saw stand-in pundit Alan Pardew controversially compare a passage of play to a rape scene. Analysing a piece of play where Chelsea’s Michael Essien used his strength to hold off a challenge from his opponent, Pardew said: “He’s timed it perfectly. He’s a strong boy. He knocks [...]
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Tags: alan pardew rape, bbc complaints, football language, match of the day, rape alternative definitions, rape definition
Match of the Day 2 saw some controversial punditing from former West Ham and Charlton manager Alan Pardew today, as he likened a piece of play to a rape scene. Analysing the Chelsea tie against Manchester City, Pardew said: “Ched Evans is a strong boy, he knocks him off.” Alan Hansen, sitting alongside him, interjects [...]
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Tags: alan pardew, ched evans, match of the day, michael essien, motd2 rape, pardew rape, rape
Why I was wrong about Twitter
Around a month ago, I penned a blog post entitled Why I just don’t get Twitter and, well, since then I’ve been emphatically proved wrong in writing the microblogging site off. What I’ve come to realise is that the reason I hadn’t fallen in love with Twitter, as many social media addicts have done, is [...]
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Tags: guardian twitter, guardian voices, todd nash, todd nash twitter, twitter
After a ridiculously long break of almost a year, my other blog, Journalism Today, has a new post. I’ll try to blog there at slightly more regular intervals from now on, I promise. Just six months until the next one now!
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In the interests of boredom, a taste test was conducted at Guardian HQ this afternoon. An expert panel was assembled, consisting of three moderators and two user help bods. All male of course, as female taste buds are nowhere near sophisticated enough for such an important task. The subject: the six new flavours of Walkers [...]
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Tags: cajun squirrel, crisp flavours, crisp review, new flavours, onion bhaji, todd nash, walkers crisps
Journalists need to start taking more notice of their communities
During Meg Pickard’s Social Media briefing today, she discussed how journalists could use the comments posted on newspaper websites as a potential source for new stories or interesting angles on a current story and it made me wonder, why is this practice so underused in journalism? Having spent the time and effort to build up [...]
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Tags: comments, community, journalism, newspaper, social media, story leads, todd nash