Harry's Place Arts

A guest post by the Chair-boogle of the Connoisseurs of the Google Gif One of our more recondite hobbies is the collection of Google gifs where the Google logo is customised to celebrate a famous person’s birthday or to mark a special day, for example, Earth Day. Here is a small selection from the society’s archives. St George’s Day. 23 April [...]

Dear Reader, I will get to the “but” presently. Indulge me for a few paragraphs… The growing popularity of blogging and so-called “citizen journalism” was once seen as a challenge to the traditional media. As news sources, blogs could sometimes dramatically scoop print and broadcast media, but I don’t think any serious media commentator honestly [...]