2003-09-07»
packets of parents»
A while back I mentioned Planet Parent, a column about being a mum that my friend Juliet writes. It is very funny and moving, like Bridget Jones only with more piss and shit and sick and (I can vouch) true and not, in fact, annoying. This one is a good place to start.
Unfortunately, it is hosted on Tigerchild, a site that has been gifted with the worst user-interface ever. There’s even a note on their frontpage at the moment saying that their frontpage is broken. “Please only use the Tigerchild navigation provided within the site, not the Back and Forward browser buttons”, it adds in a tiny, not quite centered font. Oh bugger off.
Anyway, I had far too much to do this weekend and was ill so I wrote an RSS feed for Planet Parent instead of doing what I was supposed to do or getting better. Subscribe, and mail me when it breaks.
(Or fix it yourself. I nicked Bill Humphries neat hack of running Webpages through tidy and then using XSLT to turn them into RSS. Here is the XSLT stylesheet I wrote for it.)
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bill <space> blog»
So it looks like I successfully hassled Bill Thompson into having his own blog so he can debate a little more clearly what his opinion pieces mean, what his responses are to other people’s objections, and why he thinks what he does. I’m not entirely sure that’s what I wanted (God knows some of the most unresponsive blinkered things I read are on blogs), but hey. It’s got a referrer system, so at least he’ll see where he’s being talked about.
I am first and foremost a journalist. An imperfect one (which of us isn’t) but I have an editor and a set of professional responsibilities. That, I believe, makes a difference. Using blogging technology to give people a voice is fine, but don’t confuse it with what is happening in online journalism.
And it worries me that the BBC may be listening to the zealots again when it comes to blogging, just as they did with so many other here today gone tomorrow net technologies – remember channels? remember push technology?”
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