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About Me
- John Kelly
- I'm a journalist from Washington, D.C. In September 2007 I moved my family and our dog to Oxford, England, where I studied citizen journalism, a buzzword which basically applies to anyone who isn't like me doing what it is that I do. Now I'm back Stateside. This blog is basically a compendium of my writings in England. I'll be starting a new one soon about Washington.
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- Friday Grab Bag: Monkey Brains Mashup
- Waste Not, Want Definitely Not
- Friday Grab Bag: BritNews RoundUp
- Get Your Motor Running
- The 71 Roundabouts
- Nick Davies: All the PR That's Fit to Print?
- He Shoots, He Scores: The Brave New Web
- BritNews RoundUp: It's the Pits
- Roger That: Observing Roger Alton
- The Oxford Lecture: It's All Greek to Me
- Big Brother Is Watching You
- Oh, Mother: Monumental Characters
- German Engineering
- Happy Mother's Day
- The Royal Maul, or: Please Mr. Postman
- Who'll Stop the Rain? Not the Bloody English
- New Media Killing Journalism: Yes or No?
- Tesco A-Go-Go
- May Day in Oxford: Beat It
- Blue Sky Thinking
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- Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
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- Charlie Beckett's POLIS/LSE blog
- Martin Moore Media Standards Trust
- Web 2.0h...Really?
- PBS's Engage blog
- Dr. of Journalism, Henrik Ornebring's blog
- Joyce Lau's Oxford/Hong Kong blog
- Abel Escudero Zadrayec's Argentine blog
- Glenda Cooper's Blog
- Wang Yao's Chinese blog
- Sarah Laurence's Oxford blog
- Two D.C. Science Editors in Cambridge
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12 comments:
I loved this article, thanks very much! I have many, MANY pet peeves but this is one of the biggest!
"What's a few strangled sea turtles" hahaha...
Yeah, man, i hate dogs shitting all over the place. If i had my way i'd kill em with my death ray gun. Stab da bastards!
I lived in Belgium for a bit, which is worse then Britain for canine street deposits. We came up with the solution in a bar one night:
1. Compulsory DNA sampling and ID chip for every dog.
2. First 1000 dogs caught earn their owners 0.1% of the bill to set up and manage the scheme.
Then you can finesse that with official government collar tags to show registration, whatever. Dog police with scanners, checking the mutt is registered. Etc. Wouldn't work in Belgium because of the land borders. Britain, yes.
And if you're running out of bags, ask on Freecycle. You'll get a load, I'm sure.
David
Funny article, had me creasing. I'm going to send it to the "Most Wanted" offenders around my estate now.
Very funny rant. I'm usually the first to shout about plastic bags, but (not being a dog owner) I hadn't considered this important function.
BTW, we were living in Den Haag for awhile . . . such a lovely little city . . . but it was a constant shock to see dog turds everywhere!! Apparently the Dutch have take a laissez-faire approach to scooping poop.
I got rid of all my pet peeves. Got tired of cleaning up after them.
DLD
I took my cat to the vet today. In the garage were two enormous dog turds, notwithstanding the poop-bag dispenser located not 4 yards away. I suspected the woman standing there talking on her cell phone, but her dog seemed too small to have produced these horse apples.
I picked up the poop, no longer warm, thankfully, before going inside.
I am currently dogless, but back in the day, plastic grocery bags were never secure enough for me; I like the plastic sleeves the Washington Post comes in. Another reason to keep the dead-tree subscription, eh John?
I bet you can't get the word "Mollusc" into your paper.
R
Thank you very much indeed for saying "irritate me no end" instead of the "to no end" one hears and sees so often these days.
As one of your DC readers, I have a question. When writing for a British audience, do you automatically fall into using British spellings (faeces, organise, etc.) or does an editor make those changes for you?
I think I'd find it incredibly difficult to remember all of the differences in spelling.
For anonymous: There aren't really that many differences in spelling, and most of them are pretty logical. The differences in meaning, though, are Legion and quite a trap for the unwary. Example: to "table" something means not just different, but opposite things in U.S. & UK English.
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