Archive for March, 2009

It resonates

Monday, March 23rd, 2009

It can take a while for the message to get through. I’d been told about Resonance FM ages ago, but never got round to tuning in. Finally last Friday I actually got round to it. What a radio station.
Resonance 104.4 is ‘the world’s first radio art station’, started by London Musicians’ Collective in 2002. The [...]

Finding digital goodness

Wednesday, March 18th, 2009

Since I decided to run an occasional series on the more positive effects of the recession this Monday, I’ve been wondered where I’m going to find these stories. Not that such stories aren’t out there, (they must be dammit), but where to find them? Now that I’m no longer going into an office with all [...]

Every cloud I

Monday, March 16th, 2009

The media has been brim-full of economic doom and gloom for so long now, that I decided to cut it out altogether and go on a news fast. That was a few weeks ago, after a particularly bleak morning of The Today Programme. The idea didn’t last the ride to work, but constant bad news [...]

Join your very local library

Friday, March 13th, 2009

Slewfootsnoop recommends all aspiring journalists and citizen journalists should join their local libraries. Possibly this advice applies to everyone. Not only does your local library have books, DVDs, CDs and internet access, but they also have some useful online subscriptions open to their members.
This means you can log on to the Oxford English Dictionary and [...]