The Wardman Wire

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This week Blog Platform is about a new group blog that is being launched about now. A number of bloggers with a technical background on the Internet have got together to start a new blog called poligeeks.co.uk. This is the description:

“A collective of geeky people that are into politics too. We help other bloggers like Guido and Iain Dale on the right as well as LabourHome and and others on both sides with their geeky stuff. We thought it might be nice to have our own collective blog where we could speak geek and share ideas.”

Here is the introductory article by Mike Rouse.

One of the minor interests for the Wardman Wire is architecture. I haven’t written about it very much recently, so I’m be doing a three or four articles over the next few days inspired by articles I have seen in the last few weeks.

Architecture Today is “the monthly magazine presenting the most important projects in the UK and the rest of Europe.” I’ll be looking at three articles Today, I have an example to show that architects are just as capable of writing rhubarb as sociologists, radical feminists or Parliamentary “draftspersons” (when guided by Ministers in a hurry).

The central premise of “Can You Trust the Media” is that the supposed sacred bond of trust between journalists and the public is little more than a red herring, masking the real truth that reporters are storytellers all in competition with each other to grab our attention, and nothing more. In this book Monck examines the nature of the relationship between the media and its audience and asks whether we can trust the media and, more pertinently, whether we can trust ourselves.