links for 2009-06-18

Interestingly, the itemised bill for Jacqui Smith’s husbands late night viewing has been censored. (The Times have been trying to find it). So if it wasn’t for good old fashioned journalism, that little indiscretion would never have been caught. Which is precisely the point of why all these black boxes on forms are there. To protecting the MP’s embarrassment, not for their physical security.

Your blog is a journey. And you have already begun that journey. That’s a useful start, isn’t it?

If you want to turn a corner from just reporter or commentator to expert, then you have to stand up and proclaim yourself as someone unusually good at something and then demonstrate it over and over again.