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Re: London's transport is broken

Antony Mayfield — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 10:44:23 -0000

You're right.

As a former Londoner now living in Brighton & Hove, leaving behind London's transport system was one of the greatest plus points of leaving town. I dread coming back in for business and cope by: a. avoiding rush hours at all costs, b. walking whenever and wherever I can.

Re: On Birthdays, Blogs and British Newspapers

Antony Mayfield — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 23:19:14 -0000

Thanks, Adam - and happy birthday.

Re: http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2006/12/le_web_3_pierre.html

Antony Mayfield — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 04:52:18 -0000

I was enjoying Pierre's bit - I wish we could hear more from him.

Re: Le Web 3: The Missing Posts

Antony Mayfield — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 06:12:41 -0000

Cheers for posting these, Adam - very useful for me as I wasn't able to get there... Happy Christmas to you, while I'm here!

Re: Five Years of One Man & His Blog

Antony Mayfield — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 04:29:27 -0000

Well done! Hurrah for Adders...

Re: Moblogging With The iPhone: Initial Reactions

Antony Mayfield — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 02:35:13 -0000

I thought the pics and commentary were pretty good, Adam - wish I had an iPhone... as soon as this pesky Voda contract expires...

Re: Kevin May on Digital Journalism Skills

Antony Mayfield — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:26:34 -0000

Kevin's insights are really interesting. He's ben immersed in online journalism for a while now, and has done an incredible amount of work for just one person.

Re: Why Media Gets Community Wrong

Antony Mayfield — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 01:21:44 -0000

Brilliant clarity on this, Mr T. I knew as soon as I saw the headline on this post you'd have something brilliant to say.

"Community is a strategy" is going into my arsenal of killer one-liners.

If I repeat it back to you'll know you've won ;-)

Re: Why Media Gets Community Wrong

Antony Mayfield — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 02:40:02 -0000

"And perhaps some of the failure of the latter blogs is my fault."

Just revisiting this post and what's next in line but: http://discussionleader.hbsp.com/hbreditors/2008/06/the_competitive_advantage_of_f.html

In something as innovative as you and your organisation's endeavours failures are inevitable and desirable...

Re: "That's Interesting" is the Base Unit of Blogging

Antony Mayfield — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 13:26:08 -0000

You're absolutely right.

I was slightly embarrassed to have to post what I did, and I also concurred with Euan.

Some things in my head were getting in the way of blogging - an activity which has become really important to the way I process things, make sense of them, by talking out loud.

It was just something I needed to say, to articulate to give myself permission, as it were, to not self-censor.

I think actually its partly borne out of my background as a PR person, the training and habits that were all about controlling output in communications. Has that been signed off? Is that on message? What will the implications of saying that be on partners and other stakeholders. Blah, blah, blah.

Shaking those habits off, most of all when it comes to my own blog is something I need to do.

Perhaps it does say something about the state of blogging too, but for me it was all about how I felt and how I wanted to be thinking.

There: you ranted, I rambled.

Re: Breaking Bloggers Block

Antony Mayfield — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 03:04:03 -0000

Looks like it did work!

I know exactly what you mean - currently fighting my way out of yet another lull in blogging. Best cure is prevention, one suspects: not stopping in the first place :-)

Re: Breaking Bloggers Block

Antony Mayfield — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 05:53:32 -0000

I think Andrew Sullivan put it well in his essay in the Atlantic (http://snurl.com/6xhab ): "...as Matt Drudge told me when I sought advice from the master in 2001, the key to understanding a blog is to realize that it’s a broadcast, not a publication. If it stops moving, it dies. If it stops paddling, it sinks."

Re: A Cold and Frosty...

Antony Mayfield — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:35:02 -0000

Goodness! Quick get back inside the biome!

Hope you have a good break, sir...

Re: NUJ: "effing blogs"

Antony Mayfield — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 15:06:41 -0000

Amend previous headline to "NUJ doesn't get any aspect of the web" - you're always on the record online...

Re: May Day Protest 2009 in Video

Antony Mayfield — Sat, 02 May 2009 10:49:02 -0000

Ace video-work, Mr T...

Re: The Times vrs NightJack: Destroying Journalists' Reputation

Antony Mayfield — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:28:53 -0000

Hear hear - it was a vile thing to do. The Times went down more than a few notches in my estimation with this nonsense...

Re: Britain pays off WWII debt

Antony Mayfield — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 12:42:58 -0000

That's a brilliant factoid - and one which i'll no doubt be reeling off at social occasions for some time to come.

Re: A crash course in journalism and Web 2.0

Antony Mayfield — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 14:09:33 -0000

Very useful indeed - thanks, Martin.

Re: Full disclosure time: New job

Antony Mayfield — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 14:44:59 -0000

Congratulations, Martin - sounds like a great gig. Good opportunity to say this blog remains high on my reading list, as your work has done for many years - it's my journalism radar, if that doesn't sound too terrible.

Re: Nieman Reports: Digging Into Social Media to Build a Newspaper Audience

Antony Mayfield — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 03:03:10 -0000

That's a great story - thanks for the point, Martin...

Re: Are social networks really killing us…

Antony Mayfield — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 03:00:39 -0000

Hard to tell without seeing the paper, isn't it, what the actual arguments are?

One further point I would make to your excellent analysis of what you been able piece together of Sigman's arguments, is this comes down to thinking about online/offline differently.

As the web becomes more ubiquitous and especially mobile, we'll stop thinking about online and offline as different places.

As it is, I agree: the social web augments, enhances, boosts my quality of life, rather than detracting from it.

Re: 2007/01/03/web-20-is-most-popular-wikipedia-entry-of-2006/

Antony Mayfield — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 12:10:12 -0000

It was also the number 2 most searched for definition on Google.com - if you're minded to take the 2006 Zeitgeist at face value.

Re: 2008/08/26/bbc-series-stacking/

Antony Mayfield — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 02:24:43 -0000

They've done this before tactically. When the new series of Gavin & Stacey was about to run you were able to watch the whole of series one on iPlayer.

Re: A Blog Day 2008

Antony Mayfield — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 05:36:01 -0000

Tack för att nämna - jag översatt dina inlägg med Google översätta, vilket faktiskt fungerat riktigt bra. Jag kommer att försöka använda det till en kommentar tillbaka till dig. Jag är glad att du njuta Open!

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