Marc Settle
BBC trainer, not journalist — I train BBC staff (& others) how to use phones for newsgathering.
Posts are on mobile journalism, apps, kit, The Wedding Present & Arsenal.
My views ≠ BBC. RT = worth reading. Like = read later. Sharing apps ≠ endorse.
- Shout out to Leeds Building Society for the extraordinary breadth of titles offered as choices when registering for their website. I wonder how often Princess or Marquis actually get used?
- This is an official message from the verified account of Nationwide Building Society 🤨
- It’s Groundhog Day *again* tomorrow?!
- Don’t ask me how but I’ve just stumbled across a language with the most apologetic-sounding name ever. It’s like a Geordie being indignant that he should apologise. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wymysor...
- While it’s always lovely to be wished a happy New Year, I think it’s probably pushing it a bit to send that kind of email on January 29th? Has anyone else received something similar from colleagues in the last few days?
- I never understand how this kind of thing gets through. Whoever wrote it initially didn’t spot it. Nor did the manager who signed it off. Nor did anyone at the company which printed it. Did none of them at any point say “ I don’t think that’s how to spell “unaccompanied”?
- You too can watch it via this link www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cy... (This is just the kind of thing that BBC would no longer do once/if we are sold off 😢)
- It’s absolutely fascinating - a real insight into the traditions of the Scots with a Viking heritage
- Currently watching: the rather pretty and slightly bonkers Up Helly Aa fire festival from Lerwick in Shetland. It marks the end of the Yule season and end with the burning of an imitation Viking ship.
- Shout out to whoever had the courage to write about there being “only one outcome”, before listing two different outcomes 🤨
- Quite the question from my nearly eight year old daughter. My reply was “me not choosing to give you an answer” which itself led to a conversation about irony and recursion. How would YOU answer it? (Bonus points for your *own* explanation, not one generated by ChatGPT etc)
- I picked this up and started going “duh-luh-luh-DOWWWWW…duh-luh-luh-DOWWWWW” and my young children looked at me like I had gone mad (fair enough, come to think about it)
- This TikTok account has 1.9m followers yet the average video has around 10,000 views, sometimes under 5,000 views. What’s the deal there?
- Things I can’t throw away, part seven: Old boxes from Apple products; Old Arsenal programmes. What’s your equivalent?
- My hotel room is as nice as pie
- Anyone know who this bigger rival of Trump’s could be…?
- Irrational annoyance at the BBC news report about hedgehogs where almost all the voices in it - reporter & interviewees - pronounced it “hedge-ogs”, rather than “hedge-hog”. Or have I been wrong all along?
- Accepting it’s weird to have a strong dislike of a cookie pop-up, I have a strong dislike of this particular cookie pop-up, which has so many buttons pre-set to ON
- Not sure what this stand has got to smile about, tbh
- The upgrade to my iPhone is here - finally, a decent zoom lens!
- Big up the website pushing iMovie as an app to edit video with in 2026 For context: it’s _fine_ just very boring. Landscape output only; very few exciting transitions; last major update three years ago. It’s free though.
- Opened the fridge after being away for a few days to see this - which my wife assures me is NOT as I first thought half a brain but is in fact celeriac which to me is about as appetising.
- It’s finally time to introduce my son to this.
- I think this website is probably being a little over-generous with the date range it’s offering 🤪
- Radio Four is talking over Big Ben’s bells. I repeat - Radio Four is talking over Big Ben’s bells. This is not a drill. 🚨🚨🚨 (Has this been happening for long, on BBC sounds? This wouldn’t have happened live…I hope?!)
