New media epoch

The week it was confirmed that a significant chunk of the nation's news media landscape was to disappear was also the week I officially retired my own long-standing media venture. No jobs were lost.

- Russell Brown

Public Address, the website I founded in 2002, had been all but dormant for a year or two, largely because I couldn't bring myself to go there. But I wanted it resolved properly and so, thanks to our saintly developers, it has been tidied up and locked off. A new landing page explains what it has been and lists the many authors who called it home.

The millions of words and thousands of photographs the site holds will remain there for the foreseeable future. Many of the names attached will be familiar, but the tone of discussions from the site's heyday is often notably collegial, from a time before the raging polarisation we now regard as a given in online debate.