Playing with my Pipes

When Yahoo launched Pipes about a year ago I spent a LOT of time playing with it, in fact you could say I got a little bit addicted - but I managed to break the addiction and leave it alone.

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Medium is Dying

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Reporting on a rally

You may have noticed that, for the past few weeks Jersey has been at the centre of a major news story. I’ve been fairly distant from the story until recently - that changed last Saturday.

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A churnalism solution

In Flat Earth News, a book that is one of the most controversial about journalism in the last few years, Nick Davies suggests that - due to an increasing work load (more pages to fill, podcasts to produce, blogs to write) newspaper journalists in the UK have become nothing more than churnalists.

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When to reject on Facebook

I get a lot of requests, as I’m sure do many others, to go to events, invite friends or join groups on facebook and the groups are the ones where I sometimes have to think twice.

With my day job I write a wide range of articles on everything from surfboard bans to government reform and on to what you would call a cafe converted from a toilet.

Which also in turn covers the range seen on Facebook - most of the time I just accept the invite and forget about it - often I’ve accepted invites from groups on two sides of the same argument.

But as more people, especially those in power, start to join Facebook and set up groups - I’m having to ask whether, as a BBC Journalist, I should accept their friend request or join a ‘topical’ group.

One school of thought is to accept anyone and any request that gets sent - that way I’m not showing one or the other as a favourite - this also means I can still use Facebook as a good information and journalism resource - but stops me being able to use it properly as a ‘friends’ space.

The other thought is that I reject anything I don’t agree with personally and use Facebook as nothing more than my own personal space - after all It’s not a work tool.

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What happened to time?

When I was younger, so much younger than today - a day felt like a week, a week felt like a month and a month like year.

Back then time seemed to go by so much more slowly than it does today.

I swear I’ve been put into some bizarre time machine while sleeping and taken a year into the future – It really does only feel like a week a go that it was New Years Eve 2007.

Basically what I’m getting at is – my wife is nine months pregnant and our new baby is due on Friday 11 January – that’s just a few days away.

Of course as this is our third child I know all to well that it probably won’t arrive until towards the end of NEXT week but you never know.

What this means is – when the baby comes, for at least a fortnight posts are going to be few and far between.

I’m taking two weeks off work as paternity leave to help my wife out and to bond with the new baby, and so I can still be alive during the day while surviving on about an hours sleep a night.

I will try to post here whenever I can, or when I feel awake enough to write a few words down – or at least when my brain is operating well enough to put two words together.

I’m hoping to come back in full force in about three weeks with a new look, a new logo and a new, more streamlined approach – I’m hoping to turn Up Your Ego into a blog looking at New Media, Citizen Journalism and media generally in the UK.

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