http://knackeredhack.com/2007/07/13/bloomberg-not-real-time-at-all/ the curious study of broken things Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:53:39 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 http://knackeredhack.com/2007/07/13/bloomberg-not-real-time-at-all/comment-page-1/#comment-8449 British Council, Leningrad, Pop Mechanics, Bow Ties and Regret » knackeredhack Fri, 18 Jan 2008 12:10:32 +0000 http://knackeredhack.com/2007/07/13/bloomberg-not-real-time-at-all/#comment-8449 [...] When I was a student (and briefly after) I confess that I did occasionally wear bow ties. Once I’d figured out how to tie the pesky things, it was a badge of honour. With someone of my social background it represented a bit of cheap sophistication. But bow ties don’t really work in the rough and tumble of a Fleet Street newsroom. So pretty soon after I started work I stopped wearing them. I still have most of the tweedy garb from that period, and it allows me to go to fancy dress parties and pretend to be Mr Toad. There are some bow-tie-wearing journalists around still, and you can learn more about their bad temper here, and and how they hacked off the hack (though not really) here. [...] [...] When I was a student (and briefly after) I confess that I did occasionally wear bow ties. Once I’d figured out how to tie the pesky things, it was a badge of honour. With someone of my social background it represented a bit of cheap sophistication. But bow ties don’t really work in the rough and tumble of a Fleet Street newsroom. So pretty soon after I started work I stopped wearing them. I still have most of the tweedy garb from that period, and it allows me to go to fancy dress parties and pretend to be Mr Toad. There are some bow-tie-wearing journalists around still, and you can learn more about their bad temper here, and and how they hacked off the hack (though not really) here. [...]

]]> http://knackeredhack.com/2007/07/13/bloomberg-not-real-time-at-all/comment-page-1/#comment-2694 Greg’s Blog » Blog Archive » Journalism and the Internet - Nothing Will Ever Be the Same (and that’s good). Mon, 10 Sep 2007 08:37:06 +0000 http://knackeredhack.com/2007/07/13/bloomberg-not-real-time-at-all/#comment-2694 [...]  If you work at a “real-time” news organization you can update stories as news happens, but there are limits, which the more democratically (or perhaps anarchically) inclined will point out. [...] [...]  If you work at a “real-time” news organization you can update stories as news happens, but there are limits, which the more democratically (or perhaps anarchically) inclined will point out. [...]

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