Archive for February, 2008
Is Link Journalism any different to the majority of reporting?
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008ReadWriteWeb has an interesting but not exactly deeply thought-out piece on Link Journalism. I think the point they miss is to question how much journalism done for mainstream media channels is nothing more than repitition of the day's news agenda - it's not a coincidence that most journalists' bosses are ...
Split and Rename text files from the Bash command line
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008I occasionally read text files (usually downloaded from the Gutenberg Project) on my mobile phone. This is not the best user experience, but bearable and very useful at times. The most annoying issue is the incredibly slow management of very large text files (sometimes greater than 1Mb) that my ...