Virginia Heffernan – The Medium – Television – Internet Video – Media – Flickr – Photography – New York Times bit cheap, bit lazy but still interesting. “when a prankster posted a Cartier-Bresson photo of a cyclist passing a spiral staircase, passing the photo off as his own, a mob of commenters shouted it down, [...]

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A lot of my time seems to be spent sorting things at the moment. If it’s not the ongoing pitch battle between tags and categories on the blog here (does really it matter if they don’t ever work? – could it be seen as endearing dysfunction?), it’s looking at my horribly messy delicious tags with [...]

The Believer – Interview with David Simon Brilliant interview of The Wire’s David Simon by NIck Hornby. The Wire as Greek tragedy rather than Shakespearean drama. (tags: tv media interviews thewire)

Papa’s got a brand new template. It’s a bit messy at the moment though – I haven’t worked out how to shrink the space in the sidebars. Or, indeed, how to make it look nice, full stop. And I’m not sure how to jump from categories to tags. Bear with me.

I heart Mark E Smith. I only have three chairs in the house: one for the wife, one for me, and one for a guest. No more. One guest at a time – that’s my philosophy. You don’t want your house turning into a hippy commune. His “explosive new autobiography” is being extracted in the [...]

Mark Powell (via 2point8) (tags: gallery portfolio photography) A Photo Editor – A Thought on the Future of Photography and a great post suggesting that photographers embrace the digital properly (also via 2point8) (tags: photography future digital)

DAVID HORVITZ artist’s site, bursting with ideas (via crackunit) (tags: art blog inspiration)

Interesting 2007 (tags: Interesting interesting2007 Inspiration) THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF LARRY CARLSON via Crack Unit (tags: animation flash)