Thirty days... Day five

A song that reminds you of someone

(Hear You Me - Jimmy Eat World)

Thirty days... Day four

A song that makes you sad

(The Freshman - The Verve Pipe)

A professional journalist plagiarising. Really?!

(Published on the Runcorn and Widnes Weekly News website)

Going on placement as a trainee you're never sure if your work is going to be up to scratch, it's hard to know what the publication is expecting from you. I suppose it is a compliment rather than an insult that Mark Smith has published my article under his byline but doesn't help my feeling that what he has done is fundamentally wrong.


Click here to see the article I wrote the day before for the Liverpool Echo.


As you can see the article above is identical, except for the fact it has the word Widnes instead of Merseyside (which is in fact false as the band are from Runcorn and West Derby too, only of the band members is from Widnes).


I understand the newspapers are all part of the Trinity Mirror group and therefore have access to each others articles. However when I went for a work placement with the Echo last summer, as a student journalist, I certainly did not expect what was a page three lead to be lifted and attributed to somebody else.


Plagiarising is a risky thing to do at any point in your life, but when you are a professional journalist it's just down right idiotic.


I've emailed two editors at R&W Weekly News to no avail... I'd like some advice from any journalist that has faced this problem before.

Thirty days... Day three

A song that makes you happy

(Something Good - Casey Shea)

Thirty days... Day two

Your least favourite song

This is coincidentally my least favourite music video too.

(Fight For This Love - Cheryl Cole)

Thirty days... Day one

Normally I hate those Facebook challenges, you know the ones where you have to "tag 20 people and you won't get eaten at midnight by a wolf" but a friend posted a challenge which was too good to refuse... the thirty day song challenge. I challenge you to do the same. Day one is to post...

Your favourite song
(Every You Every Me - Placebo)

Why I need to delete Facebook...

Thisisnthappiness.com provided a perfect example of why Facebook is irritating.

Reblog - Wakey!Wakey! Tickets...

 Bristol pretty please! (Why aren’t my posts working?) Damn I hope this one works. teamwakeywakey:

We have a last few tickets left for the UK Wakey! Wakey! and James Blunt gigs below. Reblog and Tweet this post with the city you want at a chance to win! (@teamwakeywakey)

First person in the below cities to reblog grabs the pair of available tickets in their city! (One pair per person only)

Have fun!

2/17/2011 The Clyde Auditorium, Glasgow, UK

2/18/2011 City Hall, Newcastle UK

2/19/2011 City Hall, Sheffield, UK

2/21/2011 Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham, UK

2/22/2011 Civic Hall, Wolverhampton UK

2/23/2011 Apollo Manchester, UK

2/24/2011 St. Davids, Cardiff, UK

2/26/2011 Colston Hall, Bristol, UK

2/27/2011 Hammersmith Apollo, London, UK

2/28/2011 Hammersmith Apollo, London, UK

3/1/2011 Corn Exchange, Cambridge, UK

3/3/2011 Pavillions, Plymouth, UK

3/4/2011 Guildhall, Portsmouth, UK

"If content is King, then conversation is Queen" - John Munsell

"If Facebook were a country, it would now be the 6th most populous in the world." - insidefacebook.com

Facebook - connecting the world. Or at least Western Europe and North America. Paul Butler has used the connections between 10 million Facebook users to draw a virtual world, but interestingly enough Russia, most of South America and the majority of Africa seem to be relatively unconnected in the world of Facebook. Read an article on how clever mathematics allowed Butler pull off this interesting social experiment by clicking here.

Poetry and flowers pretty words and threats

Billy Bragg's brilliant Valentines Day is Over performed as part of the Peel Sessions collection.

Daily Fail

I am going to become one of those irritating bloggers who simply links websites instead of writing anything of importance, I can tell.

Check out this Daily Mail headline generator, it's quite entertaining.

For more fun at the Daily Mail's expense, you may enjoy the Dan and Dan song...

#DailyFail

Possibly the coolest website ... Ever?

Awesome site discovered via London based musician Thom Lyons ... CLICK HERE! - version 2 coming soon.