‘The media’s telling of the Japan story has been inexcusably bad.’

‘Every year Blue Monday will reappear, perhaps the best thing you can do is treat it like a radiolabel to help you identify cut and paste journalists whose output you cannot trust more broadly.’

‘[A]s more of your competitors go behind a paywall, the advantage in being outside the paywall increases.’

‘Just how poorly constructed was the governor’s holiday-weekend address? We asked [Vanity Fair]’s red-pencil-wielding executive literary editor, Wayne Lawson, together with representatives from the research and copy departments, to whip it into publishable shape. Here is the colorful result.’

Graph of swearing in the Guardian over time. Fear not, though, because ‘even a liberal rag like the Grauniad seems to be pretty resistant to the tidal wave of filth [...]’

This is brilliant: it turns the tables on the Sunday Express journalist responsible for that execrable Dunblane piece.

Insightful essay by Clay Shirky on the problems that newspapers face from the internet.

‘That’s why the ecosystem of technology news is so crucial. It is the old-growth forest of the web.’

Intelligent addendum to the Guardian story.

Discussion, code, and examples of detecting copy-move forgery in images.

Nepotistic twaddle. Check the comments, though.

What actual scientists say.

Find the obsessions of journalists.

‘This is utter, utter rubbish that would be out of place in a ten year old's homework.’ Apparently I'm not the only person who’s irritated by the BBC’s technology coverage.

Turns the tables on journalistic pseudolinguistics in a very satisfying way.

Automated news system misinterprets article and posts an early obituary.