Random linkage

[matgb]

beau_bo_d_or_fd is working on the website for Tony Blair International Airport (formerly Glasgow Prestwick). The ads page is, um, interesting. A little late, but the Murdoch owned Sunday Times really is the scum of the earth, no more one_track_girl thanks to them.

Oy, journalists. Some people blog anonymously because they need to. Some people don't want their writing associated with their professional life. Get a clue, please?

Argentinian cooperatives show how you don't actually need capitalism to build an effective market economy (pay attention to the guy on the bike, he's cool). Given the above mentions that boy wizard thing, how about a report on a Harry Potter convention (by someone who, amusingly, had never heard of slashfic...). There's a bit on Samuel L's method acting for that film, and then we can finish on the evidence that I chose the wrong subject to blog about...

Comments

[angelil.livejournal.com]

That's journalism, baby. People shouldn't do stuff that they don't want other people to know about, or they shouldn't act surprised if they do get found out.

[paulrattew.livejournal.com]

I totally agree with Angelil. You and I may not like the fact that some may link our online ramblings to our professional lives, but this is onle to be expected. Every time someone writes a blog entry they are effectively publishing it. It is not a private diary, and it is very rarely something that is just for ones friends, even if it was intended to be. When the whole world can see what you are writing then you do have to be a bit considered about what you publish.
Sucks, but its just the way it is:(

[paulrattew.livejournal.com]

I totally agree with Angelil. You and I may not like the fact that some may link our online ramblings to our professional lives, but this is onle to be expected. Every time someone writes a blog entry they are effectively publishing it. It is not a private diary, and it is very rarely something that is just for ones friends, even if it was intended to be. When the whole world can see what you are writing then you do have to be a bit considered about what you publish.
Sucks, but its just the way it is:(

Oh, Harry Potter slash fiction = just plain wrong. ewwwwwe

[matgb]

Oh, I know that the anonymity can be broken easily (and note that all my online writing is always in my name), and it's not the privacy concerns for her that really bother me.

She can't write anymore. The insight into her life is lost. Also, the anonymous people she wrote about, always referred to by a letter, have also lost their privacy.

All because a journalist wanted a spurious scoop that did zero for sales. Exposing someone is one thing, but removing from public discourse a writer and an insite that was interesting and, in many ways, remarkably moral?

That annoys me. It annoyed Robert as well, I once again found he'd written what I was going to when it turned up in my feed yesterday...

[matgb]

As for the slashfic? My New Years was at a flat in Exeter. When they'd gotten drunk enough, 3 of the girls had competitions to quote and guess the story exerpts were from.

Very (very) freaky. But it did help me to understand the success of Brokeback Mountain a bit more.