tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-355371 2009-11-12T12:05:52+00:00 a sharp squeeze to the kneecap TypePad tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c81be53ef0128758843f5970c 2009-11-12T12:05:52+00:00 2009-11-12T12:05:52+00:00 Hilary Perkins Guardian News & Media to cut more than 100 jobs "Tim Brooks, the GNM managing director, revealed that revenues have fallen by a worse-than-anticipated £33m and that the organisation has already cut £25m from its editorial and commercial budgets. The...<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/cowbite?a=wpW5GfLHy-A:LKTRIxWQJ3M:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/cowbite?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/cowbite?a=wpW5GfLHy-A:LKTRIxWQJ3M:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/cowbite?i=wpW5GfLHy-A:LKTRIxWQJ3M:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/cowbite?a=wpW5GfLHy-A:LKTRIxWQJ3M:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/cowbite?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/cowbite/~4/wpW5GfLHy-A" height="1" width="1"/> tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c81be53ef0128757a4421970c 2009-11-11T12:06:46+00:00 2009-11-11T12:06:46+00:00 Hilary Perkins Hierarchy of Digital Distractions I'm pretty sure I've linked to this before, but then my attention span isn't what it used to be. (tags: visualisation work productivity socialmedia distractions) The beeb have the first film footage of a giant stingray...<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/cowbite?a=FjO3G0WYyes:yy0TAF-XNSk:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/cowbite?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/cowbite?a=FjO3G0WYyes:yy0TAF-XNSk:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/cowbite?i=FjO3G0WYyes:yy0TAF-XNSk:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/cowbite?a=FjO3G0WYyes:yy0TAF-XNSk:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/cowbite?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/cowbite/~4/FjO3G0WYyes" height="1" width="1"/> tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c81be53ef0120a66dbd73970b 2009-11-10T12:07:15+00:00 2009-11-10T12:07:15+00:00 Hilary Perkins Berlin 1989 Richard Sambrook's recollection of the wall coming down. (tags: berlinwall history journalism) Maps: Fictional character interactions over time from xkcd via flowingdata. Cute. I'd like to see one for Dickens now please. (tags: visualisation fiction film narrative maps)...<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/cowbite?a=3zLws6gJYNU:lhMEroypFls:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/cowbite?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/cowbite?a=3zLws6gJYNU:lhMEroypFls:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/cowbite?i=3zLws6gJYNU:lhMEroypFls:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/cowbite?a=3zLws6gJYNU:lhMEroypFls:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/cowbite?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/cowbite/~4/3zLws6gJYNU" height="1" width="1"/> tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c81be53ef012875665b88970c 2009-11-09T12:06:26+00:00 2009-11-09T12:06:26+00:00 Hilary Perkins Enchanted Hunters by Maria Tatar, reviewed by AS Byatt "Children, she observes, do not "identify" with characters in stories. They inhabit the world of the tale, as lookers-on, learning brilliance and danger and horror in another world." (tags: literature children...<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/cowbite?a=Iuhfxarpt2A:TKWNF1S_rHU:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/cowbite?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/cowbite?a=Iuhfxarpt2A:TKWNF1S_rHU:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/cowbite?i=Iuhfxarpt2A:TKWNF1S_rHU:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/cowbite?a=Iuhfxarpt2A:TKWNF1S_rHU:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/cowbite?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/cowbite/~4/Iuhfxarpt2A" height="1" width="1"/> tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c81be53ef0120a64e4c32970b 2009-11-03T12:05:52+00:00 2009-11-03T12:05:52+00:00 Hilary Perkins The Lava Project White Elephant DesignLab's went to Hawaii for a month to work with lava on an active volcano. Includes date-stamping the lava 02009 in reference to the Long Now Foundation. Imagine Time Team on that rock in a...<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/cowbite?a=uUpK6xc31lA:PbgMkGSM_Ug:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/cowbite?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/cowbite?a=uUpK6xc31lA:PbgMkGSM_Ug:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/cowbite?i=uUpK6xc31lA:PbgMkGSM_Ug:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/cowbite?a=uUpK6xc31lA:PbgMkGSM_Ug:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/cowbite?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/cowbite/~4/uUpK6xc31lA" height="1" width="1"/>