Listen to the original, slower, better (!) version of Men at Work’s “Down Under”
Toy justice is swift and brutal in these parts. t.co/975pYXdIR… 
A well-used semicolon can be a thing of beauty.
@SophieWarnes @AlexSelbyB @TimBrock_DtD Hah. I’m about a decade too young to have been a hardcore Beatles fan.
Isabel Hilton’s lecture on China, journalism and propaganda delivered @cityjournalism was essential insight into the information war all journalists are part of - whether they like it or not:
Wow.
Flashback five years to when Hazel and I appeared in a software advert.
I am happy to say I appear to have lost weight since then…
(This was all @tibz’s doing…) vimeo.com/110357231
@resophonick @PressPadUK @Nicola_Slawson @Nadine_Writes @FraserNelson Published: onemanandhisblog.com/2019/11/divers…
If you care about good journalism, you should care about diversity in #journalism. @PressPadUK is crowdfunding to help support young journalists from non-traditional backgrounds into the profession. I will be supporting them. I hope you will, too: onemanandhisblog.com/2019/11/divers…
@PressPadUK @Nicola_Slawson @resophonick @Nadine_Writes @FraserNelson My tongue was firmly in my cheek, to be fair, but that doesn’t always translate well to Twitter. My late grandmother used to sell newspapers in a kiosk on North Wembley station… And The Spectator has a really accessible internship scheme compared to most. Paid and CV-free.
@Nicola_Slawson @PressPadUK @resophonick @Nadine_Writes I imagine you would, as it’s basically several hundred words on why journalists should back @PressPadUK (along with an admission that I went to the same private school as @FraserNelson).
@Nicola_Slawson @PressPadUK @resophonick @Nadine_Writes I’ve always felt very slightly weird about teaching on MAs I couldn’t have afforded when I was in my early 20s. But you are spot on about the collapse of local newspapers being an issue. I just typed something very similar for a post I’m working on.
@JuliaBFit Sort of. It was Kickstarted a couple of years ago, and the intro video is still pretty close to its aims: kickstarter.com/projects/manto… and the about page is good: micro.blog/about
@SophieWarnes @AlexSelbyB @TimBrock_DtD Just take a sad song and make it better, Soph.
This week I learnt that the Opera browser is now owned by a Chinese investor, that Opera News is huge - and might well be part of a Chinese propaganda campaign.
@JuliaBFit Honestly, much of my tweeting is being pushed automatically from a small community called micro.blog, which aims to give an alternative. micro.blog/adders
@AlexSelbyB @SophieWarnes @TimBrock_DtD Is this conversation still going it? I spotted it the day before today. 😇
@JuliaBFit Oh, it’s changed. I sometimes describe it as feeling like I’m stuck in an abusive relationship with Twitter. I can’t leave it, because so much of the profession I work with is here, but I don’t actually enjoy the relationship much any more.
@JuliaBFit I struggle with it. And I have good days and bad days. But I find the general tone difficult to deal with.
It’s probably a sign that I’m over-tired and need some sack time, but I’m bloody convinced that this is the most important post on my blog in ages - and that nearly nobody will read it… onemanandhisblog.com/2019/11/isabel…
opens Twitter reads for 2 minutes goes to bed despairing of humanity
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My notes from last night’s #citycameron19 lecture by @isabelhilton at @cityjournalism on China and the global information war. It was a powerful wake-up call for journalists to take the scope of what we’re facing seriously: onemanandhisblog.com/2019/11/isabel…
Having used both WordPress’s Gutenberg editor and Ghost’s block editor, I have to say, I made the right choice to use Ghost for OM&HBg. It make construction of rich features so much more fluid. The WordPress version emphasises the block, the Ghost version the whole feature.
“We emailed you about this” sometimes feels like the digital equivalent of “the cheque’s in the post”. But I always end up paranoid about my email system and combing my junk folder for the missing email.
@joegoodman94 @y_alibhai @isabelhilton @chinadialogue @threadreaderapp please unroll
@cityjournalism @isabelhilton @threadreaderapp Please unroll