The second proper week of WINOL finished yesterday in the culmination of the live bulletin. We continued the trend of improving with every week and yesterday was a lot tighter and professional and from a production side, it was definitely the strongest broadcast to date.
We had a lighting masterclass with Dave which helped us improve the lighting and dressing of the set. Although it was a blow to lose our regular Director Leanne, Cara stepped in and did a good job leading the production.
An interesting little feature on blogger is the 'Next Blog' button. This brings up a totally random blog which can prove to be not only interesting, but useful as well as you can find people with similar interests and hobbies etc.
Following these people on facebook will open up your blog to a whole new audience in different countries across the world and is sure to increase your hit count.
By the way, I realise the above picture is not my blog but I haven't got the task bar in my template so I haven't got the option to use the 'Next Blog' button directly from my page!
It's over 4 years on from this gig and I still cant believe how lucky I am to be in the position to say "I saw Bad Religion at the Academy 2." Now This might not mean a lot to most people, but to me it is still difficult to comprehend. 
I read a great story in The Times this week.
A major company in Japan has told its workers to knock off early all this week. So, rather than leaving at 7pm, they left at 5.10pm.
Not too unusual, right? 
Check out my mates excellent blog review of DJ hero and be sure to watch the video featuring a guest appearance from yours truly!
While your there you might as well check it out his whole blog at http://mark-lovell.blogspot.com its good stuff!
My next tale begins (and ends) on a cold night in January back in 2003 when Utah's The Used landed in Birmingham.
Today was the big day! WINOL finally went live and I'm happy to say that it was our strongest bulletin to date.
The two dummy runs proved to be excellent learning curves for everyone and today people finally looked confident in what they were doing.
From the production side of things, the bulletin looked very good and well polished. The black holes that plagued our other two bulletins were practically non-existent and I felt, from my perspective, the show ran very smoothly.
Again, the Wednesday was the busiest day for the production team and I was in charge of writing and editing
Ive decided to start my reflective gigography with a show that I still consider to be one of my favourites of all time.
It was in 2002 and (for those of you that know Weezer) it was the tour for the Green Album. 
Well, it was supposed to be but the original show at the Que Club (don't know if this venue still exists!)was cancelled and eventually moved to a bigger venue. In this transitional period, Weezer suddenly became huge off the success of the Green Album and by the time this tour
I was reading a story today in one of the Sunday papers under the headline "English GCSE? It's just 2EZ." The story was about a new English exam that includes a section on the grammar of mobile phone texting.
Today I decided that my blog needed a new element to it. Something a bit different, a bit more personal. Therefore I decided in a moment of retrospective thinking, (while listening to the new album from one of my favourite bands Biffy Clyro ), that I wanted to write about something from my own life because it is my blog after all.
As anyone who knows me will tell you, I have what can only really be described as an obsession with music. This includes talking (often at length) about music and buying more new music than I can afford. Frequently this obsession often manifests itself in the form of heavily opinionated rants and or stories of my own personal experiences of gigs and bands.
Therefore I decided to delve into my own memory banks and share some of the great gig moments I have experienced in my life. Write about what you know and all that!
Now I warn you, some memories will be hazy, others will most likely be wrong but I wanted this to be my own memories so therefore, I will tell it as I remember it. If you are a stickler for correct details then dont read it!
Part one is coming soon..
Flickr is a brilliant website where anyone can upload their photos which can be viewed by anyone. Obviously there can be issues with copyright if you wish to use other people's photos for your website. Here is a way to make sure you stay safe in regards to copyright by attributing photos back to there original source:
Step 1 - Log on to 'Flickr' website.
Step 2 - Once you have chosen the image you want to use, scroll down to the bottom of the page until you see these options.
Bloggers! check out this very useful blog post:
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This week, several of the mainstream newspapers including the Daily Mail have covered an interesting story that certain individuals are calling for changes in the law in order to stop so-called 'libel tourists'.
As I have all but finished my new blog template, I wanted to name-drop a few useful blogs and blog help sites I came across. These really helped me answer some of the questions I needed to know when setting up my blog and making it look sexy! So, in no particular order:
Blog Skins - I got my template from this site. Has loads of original (and free!) skins for your blog. I chose a notebook theme as I thought it was quite fitting to my subject matter!
Blogger Buster - Loads of helpful blog advice. I found out how to add the 'read more' function from here.
World 4 Masti - A real must read for anyone planning to change their blog template but doesn't want to lose all their items and widgets.
Google Blogger Help - More info on putting widgets into your blog.
Blog Catalogue - Massive directory of user submitted blogs. Great place to promote yourself and guarantees you more hits.
Ping My Blog - Notifies all the major blog directories about your recent blog posts. Saves a lot of time and gives you more exposure.
WWW Observer - Some good suggestions for where to promote your blog.
I stumbled across a very simple and quick way to make sure you avoid any copyright issues when it comes to uploading any images to your blog posts.
Step 1 - Once on 'Google Images' click on 'Advanced Image Search'
Step 2 - When the screen has loaded you will need to change the 'Usage Rights' drop down menu to read 'labeled for reuse'
Now when you search for the image you want, Google will only bring up pictures that can be used by anyone.
There are also other options, for example, if you require a picture that you wish to modify in any way.
Please note: You still may have to attribute photos to their original source even if they are labeled for use by anyone. This is important to remember!
Hope you like the all new Cliffs Blog! Its not 100% finished yet but as they say, Rome wasnt built in a day.
Stay tuned for new updates coming soon!
Well, the second production is over and I feel it is safe to say that it's definitely getting better!
We stayed in the same roles as week 1 so I personally felt
This tutorial will show you how to embed HTML objects into your articles on Joomla hopefully without any error messages!
Step 1 - Log in to the back end of Joomla
The prospect of facing Arsenal in their current form is a daunting task for any team and a Wolves side that has racked up just ten points from their opening eleven fixtures would need to cause a huge upset if they were to get anything from this game.
The Molineux faithful were in good voice from the start as
Winchester News Online (WINOL) is a news website set up by Journalism students which aims to cover all the news and sport in Winchester and the surrounding areas.
The second and third years have been assigned jobs
'True Blood' is a new smash hit US drama series that has just unleashed itself upon UK shores.
It is set in Louisiana and is loosely based around the idea that scientists have found a way to make
Following on from our lecture on UK copyright law, I found an recent article on The Register which details new
It is a rainy and cold Tuesday evening, I am stuck inside reading BBC news online so I decided to undertake a bit of investigation work.
The BBC reported today that the UK officially has its first £1000 train fare. The journey travels from Cornwall (in Newquay) to Kyle of Lochalsh (in the Scottish highlands). As someone who regularly takes the train, I found this particularly interesting as well as being totally outrageous.
Long story short, I decided to research other methods of making this journey and this is what I found..
Today, I finally took a step that I have meaning to take for a long time. It is one of those things that I have always wanted to do but have never got round to doing.
I decided to become an organ donor.
My philosophy has always been that when I'm dead, how will I mind who is using my organs? It is also nice to think that my death could give life to another human being.
Admittedly, my decision wasn't
Reading Carole Malone's little rant in the News of the World today, I felt obliged to deliver my own personal response.
I was going to leave this issue, it is no longer a news story, however newspapers are determined to milk the story by continually printing opinion pieces on the matter.
For those of you who don't know, then basically the comedian Jimmy Carr got in trouble for cracking a joke about amputees who have been injured in war.
At a gig in Manchester he said to the crowd
