A day in the life of the RNLI

Below is a radio documentary I made about the RNLI for my last practical project at university.

Another day, another blog

So, I’ve created a new blog. This is not for a university project (which this initially wasn’t but turned out to be) but is purely something I enjoy learning and writing about.

It’s called Tea and Cake and this is what it looks like currently:

Tea and Cake screenshot

Updated CV

Yesterday I decided to spend a few hours productively and update my CV. I made full use of the Macs at my university and used InDesign to squeeze two pages of information onto just one. Below you can see the difference using special page designing software makes when creating a CV.

Before

This was created on Word:

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Twitter and journalism: Survey

Below is the survey I have created at Poll Daddy for my undergraduate dissertation. Please complete it if you are a journalist who uses Twitter. I’d be very grateful.

An awesome picture from a not-so-awesome phone

The picture below was taken on Monday 16th January at 7.30am…

Another reason to love Twitter: @Rhodri’s best and worst Christmas stories

Worst Xmas holiday? 2004, death in family. Best? 1998, friends, girlfriend, drunk. You? I’m sure we can get significant data out of this.

— Rhodri Marsden (@rhodri) December 20, 2011

Earlier this afternoon, writer Rhodri Marsden  asked his Twitter followers to tweet him their best and worst Christmas stories. Some made for hilarious reading while others were truly sad, telling of relationship break-ups and deaths of relatives.