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Tracy Record – you are my hero of the day. And note, too, her inspiring voice comes from the West Coast, not the East

I’ve found ourselves a new heroine… worthy of a longer blog tonight, one feels.
For now, however, I’ll just cut and paste off this… http://www.ojr.org/ojr/people/davidwestphal/200902/1660/ and say no more.
And if I could, I’d reach for a chisel and cut her words and thoughts out onto a tablet of stone.
And you know what, I’d put said tablet [...]

A word for the NUJ. You can fight yesterday’s wars and lose… Or you can fight tomorrow’s battles and help us all win.

Cards on the table first. I’m not an NUJ member.
My Mrs, however, is. And as a part-time sub-editor at Archant (Norfolk), given events at Archant (Suffolk) she – along with 100s of others across the UK and the US – is firmly on the endangered species list.
As, of course, are 65 souls across Trinity Mirror’s [...]

The big question now is whether this many-headed monster of info and apps can ever be tamed into something that’s even vaguely house-trained?

For reasons that won’t be too hard to fathom for both our regular readers, this was all very interesting…
http://www.4ip.org.uk/blog/levellers_fishbones_and_sir_tim_berners_lee/
Not least because these days we can join some of the dots therein… that I was lucky enough to speak at www.2gether08.com which was a kind of warm-up garden party for the full-on launch of the 4iP [...]

It is an intriguing idea – that we could have state intervention in the provincial newspaper industry. Boy, would that kick up a fuss…

First things first; declare our interest – Bob Russell MP is a very valued columnist on our Colchester United site, www.myfootballwriter.com/colchesterunited – and as an ex-local journalist himself, is more than well-placed to put the following early day motion in front of his Parliamentary colleagues…
http://edmi.parliament.uk/EDMi/EDMDetails.aspx?EDMID=36391&SESSION=891
…and calls upon them to: ‘…engage with the local newspaper industry [...]

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