Richard Madeley @ Guildford Book Festival

The Guardian presents Mark Ravenhill’s YouTube challenge

In typical fashion I am excited about this but I probably won’t get round to doing it.

Awesome idea though. Wierd text. Talking sofas.

The camera never lies

I recently bought a new camera, as I have a habit of dropping them or smashing them or getting things stuck in them.

My latest one fell foul of the sand on the beach in Bournemouth, which the nice people at Jessops said would cost me up to £100 to remove.

So I headed over to Amazon and got myself a Kodak C613, 6.2 Megapixels, optical zoom, and it’s pretty good so far.

I am no David Bailey, but I know a good picture when I see one.

Back in the heady days of 2003 when I got my first digital camera, I spent hours experimenting with extreme exposures and taking pictures of people playing pool through pint glasses

Without a suitable outlet to share my work, I would max out the capacity on my yahoo email account sending them to people who were either in the photos themselves or not very interested. 

But then came social networking. Facebook took off at the start of my final year of University, by which time I had grown bored of taking pictures of people and focussed my attention on lights, trees, canals and cats.

But it proved to be a brilliant outlet for sharing pictures at the click of a button.

The exhilarating highs of a night out at the student union were topped only by tagging photos of your snakebite-fuelled friends looking like complete tools dancing to ‘I Predict a Riot’.

Recently, I have begun to dabble with Flickr, which is essentially the photo section of Facebook without proper tagging bits, just as Twitter is the status section of Facebook without the interesting bits.

Confused? You should be.

It has been said that the best photo sharing websites should be as easy to use as real life photo albums, and for all of Facebook’s failings, it remains remarkably easy to upload, share and organise your pics.

Happy snapping.

Oh and I got a case for my new camera. Safety first kids.

sick

http://www.toothpastefordinner.com/

Does anyone know what can be done to fix this?

Internet explorer seems to have updated itself and I’m seeing websites in this form.

Help.

Cheers.

S x