Earlier, Blade commended the rapidity with which Twitter covered the terrorist attacks in Mumbai. And, like many of those who work in the Web 2.0 space, Blade has been known to make a virtue of speed for speed’s sake, almost as if the need for speed were not a hackneyed line from a Tom Cruise film but a prerequisite of the human condition.
Speed is good, but so, too, is a steady hand. Each will have its apposite moment; only good judgement can say when. It has taken Blade a few hours to ponder this (if not to write these words), for he is mindful of the phenomenon of slow blogging. Its credo? “A rejection of immediacy … an affirmation that not all things worth reading are written quickly.”
So says Todd Sieling, a Canadian technology consultant and evidently one of the emerging movement’s high priests. No doubt he would enjoy Harry Eyres’ Slow Lane column in the Weekend FT; so, too, can he be expected to agree with the Slow Food fraternity. Sieling probably knows that the Italians, who pioneered Slow Food, have also brought us the ideology of Slow Cities.
Speaking for himself, Blade has no idea who is responsible for the idea of Slow Sex, referred to by the Guardian, but he can say that a Google search of the term takes him into another world (or rather, series of worlds) with astonishing rapidity. Whether this is a good thing, or not, will perhaps be the subject of a subsequent post, but until then, enjoy your weekend, be it slow, fast or a happy medium.
Pictured: a contented snail moments before he met members of the Slow Food Party (France).
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So Farewell, then, Sir Fred Goodwin.
Now you are just Fred.
Not Right Said Fred, but plain Fred.
The Forfeiture Committee did for you.
No one had heard of it before,
But Dave said it had to act, and it did.
Trouble is that no one knows what to think.
Is it ‘Alas, poor Fred‘,
Or ‘Hurray! Sir Fred is dead!’?
We don’t know.
Do you?
By A. Mob, aged 1,378 and a half.
STOP PRESS:
Fed up with being stuck on the Thames in south-east England, London yesterday decided to move. In a dramatic gesture which augurs ill for the Olympics, the city upped sticks and relocated to East Anglia.
Lawyers were not consulted about the move, and the city’s precise motivation remains unclear. However, financiers fear that London’s decision is a sign that it wishes to downsize. Moreover, a source from London said: “We no longer want to be Britain’s seat of power. If the Scots can deregulate, why can’t we? East Anglia is a nice place where nothing happens. It’s time for a quiet life. Please respect our right to privacy.”
Elsewhere, Birmingham did not do anything, but Manchester was seen to be packing its bags. “There’s an opportunity for us,” said Manchester. “We can become London.”
East Anglia said: “We don’t mind. It’ll be refreshing to be associated with something other than fens and flatness.”
A cartologist at CNN, which broke the extraordinary news, was later fired.
We seem to be visually led this week but sometimes words proliferate far too much and letting an image do the talking is no bad thing. That’s another way of saying that ACCESS Agency’s work with Lego is absolutely top drawer.
Is there a geek inside all of us?
Excellent Nike ad
Memo to would-be hacks: good writing is no longer a tool of your trade
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This bank is so well designed that many of its staff never go home (allegedly)
In the latest of our series of white papers, Spada Research examines trends in environmental reporting.
After a raft of phone-hacking admissions and allegations, we are no longer seen as the gruff but dependable watchdog. Neville Thurlbeck, formerly of the News of the World (part of his Damascene conversion; to be continued).