Tag: Journalism
- 31st August 2009
Twitter slang in dictionary. FFS, who cares?
The silly season must very nearly be over if we’re already talking about what words have made the Collins English Dictionary. This year’s tedious publicity stunt has worked by drawing attention to young people’s slang, some of which — wait for it — is used on Twitter. ‘Noob’ and ‘meh’ and ‘mwah’ and ‘OMG’ and [...]
- 29th August 2009
SEO irrelevant to thelondonpaper’s closure
I have read some nonsense written about newspapers recently, but this post by Malcolm Coles takes the biscuit. Malcolm’s big idea is that, if News International’s London freesheet, thelondonpaper, had a website with better search engine optimisation, it might not have closed. He bases his theory on a single fact: With no meta description, google [...]
