September 2008
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(24th September 2008)
I heard two comments today. The first was from a woman in Hackney parking shop, a place where you go in a usually vain attempt to get out of paying parking fines or to pay for the privilege of parking on your street. In short, a place where tempers are short. She was irate about something or other, and began a rant which ended, "Hackney ...
(15th September 2008)
An interview with me and Library Journal, the American journal for librarians (obviously).
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(15th September 2008)
The Associated Press has a thing about sewage. A few months ago, it did a very good piece on biosolids and the allegations of ill-health associated with its application to farmland which despite the best efforts of the biosolids industry continue to swirl and rise. (It was supposed to be a series, but nothing else ever appeared, puzzlingly.) AP has also been looking at ...
→ Greg
(15th September 2008)
One of my refrains is that the neglected world of sanitation needs a celebrity champion who is unafraid to talk about shit. I learn this morning that Greg Wise, best known as Willoughby in Sense and Sensibility, is trying to install biogas digesters in Africa. That's amazing, and it's also amazing that he seems to know what they do. "We don't have a very ...
→ Radio
(11th September 2008)
I loathe to listen to myself on the radio but I suppose other people may not. There is a link in this Media Monkey piece, written by my friend Jason Deans, to Thinking Allowed, a Radio 4 show on which I appeared yesterday. Actually it wasn't that fear of offending my mother stopped me saying "shit": I just forgot.
(10th September 2008)
One of my first radio appearances was on Laurie Taylor's Thinking Allowed on BBC Radio 4, where I talked shit with an emeritus professor of urban history, Patrick Wakeley.
(1st September 2008)
I appear in Library Journal's Fall Picks of 2008, and answer some questions for Wilda Williams.