Author’s note: this article was originally published at general interest blogazine Harry Yack’s Orchestrated Muppetry on 14 December 2009. It is reproduced here with the permission of Batman. Nah, not really – I wrote it myself. Starting today, the teletext service known as, erm, Teletext, will close forever. The process will be all but complete […]
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Teletext to meet early demise
The date was set – Teletext, the digital medium often seen as the spiritual successor to the Internet, would be switched off along with the analogue signal in 2012. But now that date has been brought forward two years thanks to poor financial performance, possibly caused by the rise of the Internet. In the next […]
Blogging: Is perfect grammar really that important?
The BBC recently launched a programme which attempts to find Britain’s best young orator. Among the issues raised by the series is that of technology (read: the Internet and texting) and its effect on the English language. Whilst some champion tradition and mourn the death of grammar in the country’s youth, I say we should […]
