Vogue loves Facebook

Well, Marc Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, can breathe easy. In this month’s issue of Vogue, the MD of Conde Nast, Nicholas Coleridge gives the social media site the thumbs up and explains why everyone’s using it.

When I say everyone, I mean the elite of the fashion world and the social upper class. The likes of Jacquetta Wheeler (who?) and Sienna Miller are on there, so it must be OK.

A round of applause must go to Zuckerberg for managing to create something as classless as Facebook that manages to work its way onto the pages of the magazine world’s most elite publication.

Russell Brand, bog off!

Russell BrandThe newspapers have been filled with extracts and reviews of Russell Brand’s new book, an account of his time as a hardcore drug addict, before he cleaned himself up.

The most prominent one today was that he once introduced Kylie Minogue to his coke dealer, while he was working at MTV.

All very amusing and probably an entertaining read for a couple of pages, but I just wish Mr Brand would just disappear.

As you can tell, I’m not particularly enamoured of his sense of humour. It seems to me that he’s a one-trick pony, combining elements of Jonathan Ross and Kenneth Williams into his act, but unfortunately the worse parts of each.

I guess I don’t quite get his appeal. He talks a lot in flowery language wears skinny jeans and scarves and has apparently slept with lots of famous women. That aside, he doesn’t even seem to be that funny.

Maybe I’m getting old and just don’t appreciate ‘young’ humour any more. but surely I’m not the only person out there who thinks he’s a charlatan (to use Brand’s own flowery vocabulary).

How to get into journalism?

HackFor my sins, I’ve agreed to go back to my old school on Thursday to give a talk at a careers evening.

The idea is that I impart my wisdom on how to get into journalism and what you should and shouldn’t do.

Now clearly I’ve got my presentation sorted out already, but I just wondered if anyone had any pearls of wisdom for 16-year-olds who think that journalism sounds like a bundle of fun and want to find out more!

Come on, you know you want to tell me, don’t you?