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March 14th, 2006 * Comments(0)

 A collective comment blog launched by Guardian Unlimited.

It will incorporate all the regular Guardian and Observer main commentators, many blogging for the first time, who will be joined by a host of outside contributors – politicians, academics, writers, scientists, activists and of course existing bloggers to debate, argue and occasionally agree on the issues of the day.
Why are we launching it now? Because it’s obvious to us that our major competition for opinion and debate is moving online, and unless we move with it, we’re failing our journalists and future generations of readers.

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Guardian has consistently been one of the most flexible newspaper institutions around. This is just one step forward. Our newspapers however are still not getting it.

NPPA Best of TV Photojournalism 2006

March 12th, 2006 * Comments(0)

See the winners on  Poynter.org

Masters Short Course 06

March 11th, 2006 * Comments(0)

Masters Short Course Championship 2006

 

 
Jana Vouk & Katarina Košmrlj

 
Gregor Aleš

 
Gregor Aleš

 

 
Marko Kostelec

 
Katarina Košmrlj

This time I went for something I haven’t done since… can’t even remember. Must have been when I was 16 or thereabout – 200m breaststroke.

I hardly ever tried swimming breaststroke, mostly because I wasn’t very good at it, but every couple of years I made myself swim all three distances – 50, 100 and 200m. Just for fun, to see just how bad I really was.

Today I did it in 2:53.55 or a just below what I anticipated (a 2:55). A quote from Calvin & Hobbes immediately popped into my head – The secret to good self esteem is to lower your expectations to the point where they are already met..

On the other hand, 200m free was worse that I thought. I wanted a 2:10 but eventually did it in 2:14. Things just didn’t feel right today.

Still… there’s always next year and the long course.

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