TLDNR and why you should never ever use it. Ever.

June 30th, 2010Posted by katiesol

“TLDNR” is a sign of everything that’s wrong with the internet; it marries poor grammar with downright rudeness and implies that any piece of writing over a screen’s length is not worth the effort of reading. An acronym coined by the kind of moron that hangs about online with nary a good word to say about anyone, TLDNR stands for ‘too long did not read’.

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Shiny Media, sans rubbish puns

July 26th, 2009Posted by katiesol

The sad news broke last week that Shiny Media has gone into administration. All sorts of heinous crap has been shot* about this in the last few days. I won’t link to the gossip-loving drama fiends but suffice to say that plenty of gratuitous, self-serving rubbish has been spewed by people who are in no [...]

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Do we really need music charts?

June 21st, 2009Posted by katiesol

The Official UK Charts Company (which, presumably, feels we do so need music charts) has finally deigned that the UK’s charts should take streamed music into account – but still not for another year at least, according to this report from the BBC.
Talk about playing catch-up. Services like Spotify and We7 may have taken off [...]

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Being Pinocchio

June 19th, 2009Posted by katiesol

Bizzarro-nocchio; it’s the bastard offspring of two excellent films.

From The Daily What

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