Author Rob Wells

Don’t bother with Blair’s bullshit

So far, I’ve tried to avoid reading anything about the Iraq inquiry, essentially because it’s a massive sham, a distraction, and will not lead to any kind of change, or any kind of justice for the hundreds of thousands of people killed in the Iraq war.

But because I follow people like Krishnan Guru-Murthy and Channel [...]

A bit about code

This evening I spent an hour subbing one piece of copy for The Linc’s website. Not because it was spectacularly bad, but because the HTML formatting was just horrendous.

The solution basically involved me having to go through and strip all the existing HTML code from the article and replace it with stuff that actually made [...]

LSJ off(line) on ’net news

Recently I wrote about how the Lincoln School of Journalism was still getting it wrong when it came to blogging — something I’d already pointed out during the summer.

In the comments on that post, Dave Lee wrote: “Blogging – and online journalism as a whole – at Lincoln has been seriously lacking.” I can personally [...]

Lincoln School of Journalism still gets blogging wrong

Part of what drove me to create LSJ bloggers in the first place was the stupid approach the Lincoln School of Journalism took to introducing students to blogging. I’ve argued that it does nothing to create interest, and at best just serves to familiarise students with the tools.

An academic year later, and it doesn’t look [...]

Rethinking LSJ bloggers: Can we overhaul it for semester B?

It’s been over a month since I put LSJ bloggers into hiberation, and as the new year approaches I’m considering what to do next with it. The initial response was incredibly poor, with very few people contributing — only about a third of the people who submitted links to their blogs got involved in some [...]