The “Fail Whale” is the graphic of a whale held up by a flock of birds illustrated by Yiying Lu (@yiyinglu on twitter) It is employed during periods of downtime by the social networking service Twitter.com, which allows users to submit and share brief messages known colloquially as “tweets.” When Twitter gets overloaded, users see the “Fail Whale” error message. See more here – http://www.whatisfailwhale.info/

Spring cleaning…. my head!

Oh no dear god all mighty above us and all around the newsroom NO!!!!! Automation jitters have spread to the Sydney ABC newsroom and again we see the lack of staff training and.. well, let’s face it…machines taking over and replacing what humans have done fine with for ages. The ABC is slowly being eaten away by budget cut cancer, low morale, journalists editing their own stories (as well as finding the stories, producing them, [...]