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Tweeting twits

By Whealie | January 18, 2010 - 9:14 am |January 24, 2010 challenges, Chris, Journalism, Other freelances, problems, Twitter, web, Work

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Tweets from #governmentnews are so wrong the person tweeting should be taken out and shot. Journalists should avoid this site because of its inaccurate and misleading information.

Yesterday, 17 January, it tweeted that new donation and funding figures for political parties had been published. This was just baloney. Continue reading →

Blog or bog off

By Whealie | December 31, 2009 - 5:33 pm |January 24, 2010 blogging, challenges, Chris, Journalism, Other freelances, Payment, problems, Software, Technical problems, web, Work

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In the past few days I have worked from my Macbook using mobile internet connections from:

The top and bottom decks of double decker buses
standing up on a London commuter train
Seated on a Virgin train
On the overground section on a London tube
In a Starbucks and a Pret
Standing on Oxenholme and Lewisham stations

I have used a mix of my Vodafone dongle and my BT Openworld account. And that is in addition to several other people’s home wireless broadband networks. Continue reading →