Don’t hold the front page

For as long as I can remember (well, a good few months at least), I’ve been banging on about leaving my current job and applying to the Chase Post, one of Cannock’s three (count ‘em!) free weekly papers.
The Mercury and The Chronicle are better written, but it is the Chase Post that the residents (or [...]

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You’ve Got A Friend

Does blogging change when you know that people know it’s you? That would be a daft question for anyone whose real name is the name of their blog, but for people like me who hide behind a pseudonym it’s an interesting thought. After all, it’s sometimes much easier to bare your soul to the anonymous [...]

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Don’t “Swett” the small stuff

One of my friends added the following quote to her Facebook profile today and it got me thinking:
“If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.”
Orison Swett Marden
How many people really can [...]

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“Die, PR, Die…”

Thanks to Gary Andrews (nice little mention in The Journalist this month, by the way!) I came across this post on the excellent blog by Charles Arthur of The Guardian, venting his frustration at the hapless PR person who called him with what they presumably thought was a bright idea (or maybe they thought it was [...]

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High IQ “turns academics into atheists”

There’s an interesting article in Times Higher Education today called High IQ turns academics into atheists in which they argue that “intelligence is a predictor of religious scepticism” and that “belief in God is much lower among academics than among the general population because scholars have higher IQs”.
The article is based on research by Richard Lynn, emeritus [...]

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