Some things I’ve been writing

Published in December 2nd, 2012
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Tweet I’m a bit embarrassed that these days I don’t get around to updating this blog much. It’s mainly because I’m preoccupied elsewhere, so I though it was time to share where you can read some of the other stuff I’ve written of late. Firstly, there’s the other blog - I started The Lone Gourmet [...]

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Blogging against disablism

Published in May 1st, 2009
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Tweet Did you know that one in six people in the UK has a disability of some sort? No? Neither did I until quite recently. It’s a shocking statistic, not so much because of the figure of 17%, but because disability is so underreported that when it does make the press people’s life stories become [...]

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When hacks get sacked for blogging

Published in September 25th, 2008
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Tweet Freelance journalist Nick Clayton got the boot last week for blogging. His firing has attracted a lot of media attention and he’s written up his experience on his own blog. Read and learn what a storm in a teacup it is - not for him but for The Scotsman. No doubt Nick will be [...]

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MEN behaving radically

Published in September 18th, 2008
Posted by in Journalism, Media, News
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Tweet It’s not often bloggers are offered the opportunity to have a look round a modern newsroom at a major regional paper, so when the Manchester Evening News announced it would host the latest meeting for Manchester’s blogging community it didn’t take long for the limited number of spaces available to be filled. The MEN [...]

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Blogging the bloggers

Published in September 16th, 2008
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Tweet Tomorrow sees me heading off to the nearby metropolis of Manchester for the Manchester Bloggers meeting. I’m not strictly a Manchester blogger but I might soon be, if all goes according to plan. I’ve been invited to about 3 of these over the last few years - each time I cancelled at the last [...]

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