Cluttered Desk

Just saw this on the AllMediaScotland newly-launched Tweet Service - apparently Charles McGhee has departed from The Herald, leaving the paper without an editor the week before the Glasgow East byelection.

More news as I hear it…no doubt some people will be sad at this, while some will be rejoicing. What isn’t known as of yet is why he left.

UPDATE
UPDATE: Hold the Front Page has tweeted and put up more info on this page, complete with statement.

UPDATE 2: The Guardian has weighed in, again with the suggestion that McGhee left because of the ongoing cuts, which may or may not be the case, but it seems strange to me that he leaves right after the last round of redundancies (which I hear saw some staff rejected, despite their pleas to leave) unless he was told that there was going to be another round of cuts right away.

I’ve written a piece for AllMediaScotland about the joys of Tweeting and using Twitter and what benefits it can bring to news and PR organisations here.

(And anyone wanting to sign up for AMS’ Tweets can do so here.)

(Yes, the T in the Park stuff’s coming…)
Opened up LinkedIn today to get a nice little surprise in the form of a recommendation from well-known (in the US anyway) writer and publisher Larry Young. Larry and I first met through Warren Ellis and kept in touch - sometimes a lot, sometimes a little, rarely enough - and have chewed the fat over doing some projects together, and it nearly came off once (saying nothing else as it’s still a slowly evolving project for elsewhere).

Anyway, there was a recommendation there for me, that not only made me laugh, but I may just have to find a permanent home for on the front page of here:

“Craig’s command of language allows him to make words dance like teenagers ’round the campfire, enjoying cheap beer and each others’ company on the last day of summer before school starts.”

Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to round up those teenagers…

I ache. Big proper post later, but anyone wanting samplings of what T in the Park was like this year could do worse than check out the Tweets I did, Shaun Milne’s Tweets or The Sun’s round-up (can you guess who invited me?).

A very interesting weekend that deserves a full post later once my muscles have returned. Though I now live in fear at what Orange are going to charge me for data use over the weekend…

And now to turn off the Tweet updates appearing here.

L:T in the Park: Mindless self indulgence apparently mental on radio 1 NME stage, trying to wreck kit & spray/spit irn bru on fans-rock&rol

L:T in the Park: charlatans are way rockier than i remember.

L:T in the Park: Regular cries of ‘amy, amy, amy fucking winehouse’ chanted by girls. Folk think she’s a role model? WTF?

L:T in the Park: of all the people they let out early and they keep him in.

L:T in the Park: Hang on, if he had been released early - he gets out next week - amy winehouse might not be here…

L:: L:T in the Park: amy: ‘this one’s for my husband’. Must be a cover of cell block h theme or great escape (avoiding obvious jail gags)