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From The Sky Newsdesk

Since Sky gave Sky News a little bit of an overhaul I have been keeping an eye on the Live at 5 weblog with Jeremy Thompson which I think is an interesting behind the scenes look at the way a news programme is put together. Maybe it’s not as good as the live election gallery feed earlier this year – I wish they’d do more of that – but a nice try nonetheless and they seem to be keeping it going much better than The Guardian did with their Editors’ Weblog.

Hearing about a day from the presenter’s viewpoint – or about their thoughts on a story – can be fascinating. Take last Friday, ‘The news of the shooting of two young policewomen in West Yorkshire broke just as I was about to go on air to present Live at 5 on Friday. For the next four hours I was in the hot seat as this tragedy unfolded.’ [More at Live at 5 weblog with Jeremy Thompson]. I hope they manage to keep it up.

On this day…

2006: My Name’s Not Bond

Not About Me

I don’t talk about my blog. It’s a private thing I do, but I am not sure why (I would suggest points 2 and 3 here as a starting point to try and answer that question).

Yesterday I went for a very nice meal at Orso when the conversation turned to weblogs. I was somewhat shocked that my dining companions could not grasp the “why” of the blog concept. Why read them? Why write them? But I still didn’t speak about Listen To Musak. It’s very odd, but I do not feel compelled to actually talk about this. Then I realised I do not talk about myself to anybody very much. I discuss events that involved me. I talk about other people and tell people about my work. I express options with the best of them. But I don’t really discuss myself too often – at least by this I mean, I guess, emotions and my private life. It’s odd because I think people who know me would say I do talk a great deal, but I know I hold things back. Why is that? So why to I carry on writing this? I have said before that it started out as a challenge to myself. Can I blog for a whole month with no interruptions? I did that. And still I find myself here!

On this day…

2004: Camp
2002: Old Friends

The Art of the Blog

I have been thinking some more about this whole blogging lark. I have always said that the most fascinating part of the online community has been personal homepages. They have drawn me in like some crazed stalker. However, you put it there for me to read, so perhaps stalker is not the appropriate term (I mean, how many people invite stalkers?). Still, I read them. So, I was interested in the book We’ve Got Blog. Now, here is a handy link to some of the book’s contents.

On this day…

2007: The Slag Of All Updates
2006: Hello From Here
2005: Charlie And The Chocolate Factory