Bournemouth Media School Blog

Farewell, adieu ...for now

2006-09-09T04:03:00.000-07:00

Six months is a long time in the online world. My residency has finished at BMS and yet I feel I have only just begun to get to grips with all the latest developments. In October I go to the back of the class when I start work on a research MA which will focus on internet communication.

My time at the school has been life changing. Yes, really! And I would like to thank everyone at Bournemouth University, lecturers and students, for all their help and support. See you soon.

PS: I left the FT in September 2006 - regards to all colleagues past and present

Citizen journalism awards

2006-07-18T05:55:00.000-07:00

The citizen journalism awards, sponsored by Press Gazette and Nokia, raised some hackles among hacks. But no-one could argue with the quality and range of the winning entries and nominations - could they? View pictures

Lessons from Valencia

2006-07-04T03:29:00.000-07:00

According to Spanish journalist Juan Varela at Periodistas 21 we still have much to learn about how citizen journalism can contribute to a story such as the recent metro accident in Valencia.

The Editors Weblog reports that the mainstream media in Spain gathered much of its information and images from people at the scene. According to Varela, how we use this new 'feed' presents new challenges to journalists.

* the division between testimonies that help to understand information about a tragedy versus those which only feed morbid visions of the event

* since journalism is a labour of verification, more work needs to be done by editors to make sure that images and text aren't manipulated

* mainstream media also needs to distinguish between first-hand accounts of a story and opinion from those who may be expressing their feelings about an event

* because mainstream news organizations know that their website traffic augments significantly with galleries, they must maintain the same standards of photography with citizen contributions that they do with professional photography in order not to compromise themselves

* too many citizen contributions just creates noise. The MSM must edit so that the audience doesn't become confused by too much information

Newswatch ecosystem

2006-06-11T11:54:00.000-07:00

The digital generation are more conservative than we think with no great ambitions to overthrow big media. That was one of the lines out of Newswatch 06 at BMS on Thursday. Full coverage of the day including the afternoon panel debate 'Who owns the content?' at the AP site. And this from Press Gazette - AOL news portal to become free to all net users.

My favourite moment? The chap who said he didn't see why journalists had to engage in dialogue with readers. Would love to talk to him and continue the debate as I think I might have cut him off a bit. Any idea who he was?

BMS bloggers

2006-06-07T06:46:00.000-07:00

BMS student bloggers Lucy Meakin (MA) and Simon Copp (BA) will be reporting Thursday's Newswatch 06 event sponsored by AP. They will be blogging for Press Gazette which has a special report this week on new media with reports by the Guardian's Simon Waldman and a piece headed 'Can you cut it in the interactive era' - by someone closely connected with this blog.

New media ecosystem

2006-06-05T10:51:00.000-07:00

How are we all going to live together in the new media ecosystem? Just one of the questions which will be posed at Newswatch 06. See you there on Thursday.

Interactive brew

2006-06-01T04:15:00.000-07:00

Tonight's the opening night of "Grow" the BA Interactive Media Production Degree Show at The Old Truman Brewery in Brick Lane, London. The exhibition runs until June 5 and showcases a wide range of interactive works produced by Bournemouth's BAIMP3 students. These include installation artworks, a touch screen kiosk, mobile phone products, cool things with webcams, websites, interactive narratives and games. For a sneak preview

Newswatch 06

2006-05-31T03:34:00.000-07:00

On Thursday June 8 Bournemouth Media School is presenting Newswatch 06 , a one day forum organised in partnership with the Associated Press news agency and UK Press Gazette. The forum will focus on changing patterns of news consumption in the digital age and will feature top speakers from the broadcast and print worlds as well as a significant contribution from BMS lecturer Mark Passera.

Details at http://www.newswatch06.com/

Salam Pax - the movie

2006-05-25T02:39:00.000-07:00

At first there were blogs, then there were books from blogs and now Hollywood is taking note. Salam Pax, the Baghdad blogger, is going to have a movie made about him and his despatches from Iraq. His online diary Where is Raed? was serialised in the Guardian before being turned into a book.

Links!

2006-05-23T04:42:00.000-07:00

Link to other articles and resources such as the BBC.
A better idea - link to your articles. Self-serving - yes! Welcome to the blogosphere - but if you want to get a job, a little self-promotion will go a long way....

And if you want to do a picture, click on the picture icon in the tools bar above (on blogger) and cut and paste the url of the pic and upload. Don't have a tools bar?
Get a better browser and go to Firefox.

O Lordi 2

2006-05-23T01:59:00.000-07:00

Next blog session is at 10. Get started at blogger.

Next at 12. Go to Jeff Jarvis' blog to read more about the power of the blog.

Go to - technorati, the search engine for blogs - and see what's out there.

O Lordi...

2006-05-22T03:45:00.000-07:00

So that's 20 more blogs set up. Next session at 12. Tomorrow at 10 and 12.

You can use the tool bar above to upload images (the pic icon) and to show links. Highlight word or words and click on to chain icon above and type in url (web address).

Always preview your work before you publish to check it is how you want it and that headline works and spelling is correct - use ABC tool bar above to do this. Post regularly and send your blog web address to friends and colleagues and ask them to comment on your feature project and your blog.

On your marks...

2006-05-21T12:27:00.000-07:00

Get ready for the blog workshop and have a peek at Blogger. See you at 10 on Monday.

Blog workshops

2006-05-16T05:00:00.000-07:00

Not one of my best headlines. Ahem. I'm with Alexei Sayle when he says workshop is one of the worst words in the English language. However, on Monday and Tuesday next week Dan Hogan and I will be heading up four workshops to get everyone up to speed and answer the question: why should journalists read or write blogs?

Details of the workshops are on Media 2 with a list of links. Here are some more blogs and sites that are worth looking at - South Korea's OhMynews (as long as you can read Korean but there is always the international version. Click on to it find out why the International Herald Tribune is considering using some of the material. instapundit and this story on BBC guidelines for Beeb blogs.

If you need cheering up BA third year student, Andrew McGill, recommends this.

Any more I need to know about?

(Updated on June 7 2006 with amendment about IHT.)

Training for online jobs

2006-05-15T10:47:00.000-07:00

Some thoughts here on training for online journalists in Press Gazette's guide. But since I wrote this piece many mid-career journalists have asked me what they should do and where they could go for a short course or a refresher. I'm going to have to do some more research....watch this space.

Webucation, webucation, webucation

2006-05-08T06:22:00.000-07:00

Are you digitally literate? And if you are, how do you use the web for educational purposes? It's not as a easy as it sounds - universities can engage in distance learning projects, launch blogs and set up their community sites but how do you get students to engage? For that matter, how do you get the educators to engage when so many are cynical about what the web has to offer.

The debate at last week's blogging seminar got cut off in its prime but some useful material including links can be found here.

So who do you trust?

2006-05-03T08:04:00.000-07:00

Which form of media do you trust most? This is one of several questions in an online poll organised by the BBC and Reuters as part of the We Media conference. The poll is still taking votes but the result so far is rather surprising.

Of the 45,000 who have taken part so far, 35% say news websites, 20% newspapers, 18% blogs, 15% TV and 12% radio. I'll be checking back later this week to see if the figures change much.

Good eggs

2006-04-14T10:00:00.000-07:00

A little something for the Easter weekend on the Pimp my snack website. For this recipe you just need 48 creme eggs.

Can you hack it?

2006-04-10T06:26:00.000-07:00

There are online journalists and then there are online journalists. Meet Walker Spaight who works for The Second Life Herald. He covers crime, sex scandals and corporate malfeasance in multiplayer online games. And, of course, he doesn't really exist - he is the online incarnation of Mark Wallace, co-author of Only a Game: Online Worlds and the Virtual Journalist Who Knew Too Much.

You can write for Second Life by covering stories on any virtual world. Pay is L$1,000 per story which seems pretty good - as long as you live in a virtual world.

Newswatch 2006

2006-04-07T11:33:00.000-07:00

The conference on new media and the consumer at BU in June is taking shape - more details next week. Have a great weekend - I'll be with the silver surfer, AKA my Dad, who celebrates his 80th on Sunday.

Too many cooks - a good thing?

2006-04-04T04:42:00.000-07:00

I was struck by Julie Powell's comments this week after she received the Blooker prize for 'Julie and Julia', her cookery blog book which recounts 365 days cooking all 524 recipes from Julia Child's 'Mastering the Art of French Cooking'.

She said she found blogging liberating but that it was the interactive element that "kept her honest". And this was just a cookery book! Journalists can try to police their web territory but in the long-run the real editor in chief may well be the reader, posting back comments, pointing out inaccuracies and seeking redress through their own blogs.

Spooky Monday

2006-04-03T04:31:00.000-07:00

Campus is eerily quiet for the Easter break. It's a bit spooky but at least it gives me some time to plot with Dan Hogan on how we are going to inflict more student blogs on the blogosphere.

And I've been surfing BU's website to catch up on the work of documentary makers and flash masters. I loved Sophie Williams' interview with two friends about love and war - "I was a bride, a widow and a mother in the same year."

It was so moving I had to watch something to cheer myself up with Race Against Time. And this online guide to Amsterdam by Ben Templeton, shortlisted last year for a BIMA award.

Student emissions

2006-04-02T11:27:00.000-07:00

Students are revolting - on the web. The New York Times reports students in the US are using forums to vent their frustration at the admissions process at sites such as collegeconfidential.com and studentdoctor.net.

Some of the sites provide other forums such as dissertation writing support groups. What do our friends at Cemp think?

Red America fall-out

2006-03-28T01:14:00.000-08:00

Bryan Keefer, one of the founders of spinsanity (see previous post), now concentrates on his Columbia Journalism Review site. He was on Channel 4 last night giving his take on the Red America blog fiasco at The Washington Post.

Ben Domenech, 24, has been fired for plagiarism leaving everyone and his mother another reason to bash blogs. The question everyone is asking is: can you trust blogs? The question might as well be: can your trust newspapers or columnists? The blogosphere is always going to have its mavericks, charlatans and downright liars. If reputable media organisations harness the web they will have to vet and police more. Would the Post have let an inexperienced, young, commentator with a political agenda run riot across its op-ed pages without checking content? N0, so why take him on in the first place?

The only heartening aspect of this depressing episode is that it proves once again that the web is no place for plagiarists - they can run but they can't hide. Ever.

The debate continues at CJR.

Blookmarks

2006-03-27T06:30:00.000-08:00

If you are not in the running for a Pulitzer there are always the Blookers, literary awards for books based on blogs.

Finalists for the inaugural Blooker prize organised by Lulu in the US include All The President's Spin by Bryan Keefer, Ben Fritz, and Brendan Nyhan. The blook is based on their site http://www.spinsanity.com/.

The authors say: "We believe an engaged citizenry, active press and strong network of fact-checking websites and blogs can help turn the tide of deception that we now see."

It's a pity, then, that they decided to shut down their website over a year ago.

Pulitzer power

2006-03-24T05:12:00.000-08:00

Pulitzer prizes are open to online journalists - at last. Bloggers are putting their money on The Times-Picayune's coverage of Hurricane Rita - we'll find out on Monday, April 17.

Budget on FT.com

2006-03-22T08:59:00.000-08:00

At the FT today for the Budget - the biggest traffic day of the year for FT.com.

Piers' print pressure

2006-03-21T03:37:00.000-08:00

Piers Morgan is setting up a newspaper for children. And yes, they are going to bolt on a website.

Shouldn't it be the other way round since the little blighters don't read or buy much print and are glued to their screens, Ipods, mobiles, chat rooms and Gameboys? Or am I the only one mystified by this latest launch?

The Breakthrough Years

2006-03-20T07:49:00.000-08:00

Journalists love talking about themselves. The only thing they like more is talking about themselves to other journalists. Magazine guru Peter Jackson has tapped into this by organising a series of lectures called The Breakthrough Years, but with a practical aim - to get advice on how to get hired and avoid being fired.

Eve Pollard, Claudia Winkelman and James Brown of Loaded fame have given their tips for the top. The next industry expert had to be pulled as they had just been fired so it was down to me. This is my advice: be ambitious, take risks, get a mentor, write a blog, create a website, and never admit you have a hangover. Out of these I have achieved five out of six so perhaps my breakthrough is yet to come.

Glocer Q&A

2006-03-16T02:52:00.000-08:00

Some advice from Tom Glocer of Reuters: "What I know is that starting out in journalism is more exciting today than it ever was. Just ten years ago you had two choices – print or broadcast. There are many more opportunities now to make a living as a journalist. I would follow what excites and interests you. Make good contacts and build a network."

In a recent Q&A on new media Simon Copp, a final year student on the BA Multi-Media Journalism course, wanted to know whether to pitch for print or online. The panel also included journalist Trevor Butterworth and Roger Parry of Clear Channel. Click here to read their tips.

Huff puff

2006-03-14T02:29:00.000-08:00

Great piece on the blogging revolution by Arianna Huffington this morning. Rupert Murdoch is still weighing in and says the internet means the end of media barons.

But nothing is ever perfect in the online world as anyone who has worked on a website will testify. The Guardian Unlimited crowd will all be bald by lunchtime, tearing their hairs out as they try to promote their 'Comment is free' ethos - site has been down with the 'The page cannot be displayed' message that dotcom journalists dread.

I'm feeling their pain. However, you can always go to FT.com and take part in the online Q&A with Reuters chief Tom Glocer - he's asking: what's the point of blogs?

Iraq conflicts

2006-03-13T03:42:00.000-08:00

I've been preparing for my starring role in Pedro Almodovar's epic on bloggers with a small piece to camera for 3rd year student Kristy Woodhams' TV project. She's been investigating the military's view of how the conflict in Iraq is reported. Many soldiers feel angry and upset at the coverage and feel they have not been given enough 'support'. She asked me what I thought about this.

There are very few 'good news' stories when reporting war. Just ask Caroline Hawley, until recently the BBC's correspondent in Baghdad. I went to the Frontline club in London recently to hear her talk. You might remember that she was once accused of being able to 'smell shit in a rose garden' by Paul Bremer, the former chief US administrator in Iraq.

Several ex-soldiers and representatives of NGOs said they were despondent because much of the good work they were doing for civilians was unreported. Caroline said she had reported several positive stories (including one on Iraq's version of Pop Idol) but that there were more important news priorities: the coalition forces' inability to provide water and electricity for civilians, abuses at Abu Ghraib, kidnappings, bombings, killings and insurgencies.

Perhaps the lack of public support and ebbing of political will is at the heart of the frustration felt by those in the army. Few of them cannot have asked the question: why did we go to war? Ben Griffin, an SAS soldier, quit Baghdad after only three months. He told his commanders that he could not take part in an 'illegal war.' Was he court-martialled, reprimanded or called a coward? No, the army discharged him and gave him a glowing reference.

For a US veteran's perspective read Paul Rieckhoff's blog for the Huffington Post.

Almodovar, I'm ready for my close-up

2006-03-10T09:37:00.000-08:00

I don't know whether to believe this: Pedro Almodovar wants to make a film about bloggers. If it isn't true, it soon will be! Have a great weekend.

Bournemouth blog roll

2006-03-09T09:51:00.000-08:00

I asked you to send me your urls. Here are some selected highlights:

Serial blogger Chindu Sreedharan has started his teaching blog. Lots of good links - check out these scholars who blog.

Roman Gerodimos' Me Against the Keyboard. Roman (a lecturer in communication and journalism theory at Bournemouth) also has a website, Roman Reloaded.

Steve Cross sets himself a tall order at Life, the media, everything.

James Rivington on the Oscars and nasal probes.

Lucy Meakin who asks: "Do I have to have an opinion about EVERYTHING?"

Q&A with Tom Glocer, Reuters

2006-03-08T04:03:00.000-08:00

Take part in a live Q&A with Reuters chief Tom Glocer on FT.com next Wednesday.

This is what he has to say about old media embracing the new:"We are now at our crossroads. Old media – and I now would include the first wave of online publishing – have a choice: integrate the new world or risk becoming less relevant. Our industry must not fall into the old protectionist strategies that defined the first phase of the internet. "

Send your questions to ask@ft.com.

Blog it to flog it

2006-03-07T04:20:00.000-08:00

There is nothing you can do to stop the corporate titans from harnessing the blogosphere - and cutting out PRs and journalists in the process. Students of corporate communications take note of Wal-Mart's latest wheeze - plugging its image by releasing nuggets of information to selected bloggers.

Paper, scissors, stone, internet

2006-03-04T02:49:00.000-08:00

It's all a bit childish isn't it? I'm referring to the power plays between big media and what many of them see as the online usurpers. At this week's OPA conference the 'I hate Google' crew were out in force.

But at least Tom Glocer of Reuters was asking the right question in his keynote address: "If the user wants to be both author and editor, and technology is increasingly enabling this, what will be the role of the media company?"

Online ads - show me the money

2006-03-01T03:21:00.000-08:00

Why should companies and agencies place an ad online? That was one of many questions that came up in yesterday's seminar with BA advertising and marketing students. Research by MORI and Pew has found news website readers to be younger, more affluent, better educated and more likely to have shopped online than newspaper readers.

This, along with broadband, has spurred online advertising growth and yet and yet....it is still not enough. Analysis presented this week to the World Association of Newspapers says news websites need up to 100 extra online users to accompany each reader that migrates from print editions or they will lose revenue. "As more and more people shift their news reading from print to online, the newspaper industry must dramatically increase its online advertising revenues or die," said Vincent Crosbie, a senior associate at American media strategist Borrell Associates.

Self-styled 'blog daddy' Jeff Jarvis puts it another way: "Advertisers still feel safer buying print even though all the audience growth is online, which means they’re still paying too much for too little. It’s a painful syncopation."

What will be the business model of the future? My brain hurts already so post back some comments.

Sporting chance of a job

2006-02-28T03:23:00.000-08:00

BAMMJ and MAMMJ jobs alert: did everyone see that The Sportsman is hiring? The newspaper and website needs journalists ahead of its launch in a few weeks' time. I noticed that they had separate jobs ads in The Guardian for the paper and online. Double your chances and apply for both - after all, they will want someone who knows how to place a bet.

I see they have just appointed a greyhound editor. I'd love to read their expenses sheet.

Pods v Vods

2006-02-27T04:45:00.000-08:00

Podcasting is high up on the menu of most websites but video podcasts are the new dish of the day. The BBC was ahead of the game on vodcasts but I see The Scotsman has started experimenting with them and regional titles (the ones who invested in radio and websites such as the Kent Messenger Group) are also launching video news services. Companies such as BMW are testing the value of vods in their marketing campaigns.

What has the biggest impact and potential? The podcast has had the upper hand for the time poor who want to listen on their way to or from work. Who really wants to download a video podcast - isn't it just the telly but on a tiny screen? Or have I missed something? I don't really need to see what the reporter looks like to help me understand the story.

But perhaps I am showing my age. I can't imagine watching a film on my mobile and I haven't downloaded a single video on my lovely new iPod - although when Prince releases his new album I might make an exception. I suspect the vodcast will win - commentary and images can be a compelling formula. You just have to get it right - go to Snowballs.pc.com for tips on how to get the best out of podcasting and vodcasting.

Did someone mention vlogs?

How to make a million

2006-02-23T06:20:00.000-08:00

A lesson on how to make money from the web by Alex Tew - the 21-year-old student and creator of milliondollarhomepage.com.

Pulp friction

2006-02-22T11:11:00.000-08:00

How much are you prepared to pay for a newspaper? Simon Kelner, editor of The Independent, thinks readers would be happy to pay £1 for a daily and £2 for a Sunday. It would have to be a mighty fine product to persuade me that this is anything more than pulp fiction. Most journalists get their newspapers and magazines for free in the office so it comes as a shock when they actually have to pay for one themselves.

This morning I bought a few nationals, the London Evening Standard, Vogue and The Economist. If I had wanted to cut back, the dailies would have been first to go (I can get most of it free on the web) and, perhaps, I would have junked The Economist - £3.10 seems a bit steep. That would have left me with Vogue, the most expensive of the lot at £3.40. Why? First, it's a beautiful magazine with a few decent articles. Second, it doesn't and will never translate on the web - see what I mean?! Third, it keeps forever, doesn't turn yellow, or give the living room that hobo at home look. Yep, it's what our marketing chums call a premium product - so maybe Kelner might be on to something after all.

As Wired put it a while back: "Imagine what higher-ups at the Post must have thought when focus-group participants declared they wouldn't accept a Washington Post subscription even if it were free. The main reason (and I'm not making this up): They didn't like the idea of old newspapers piling up in their houses."

However, Peter Wilby in today's Standard, refuses to be pessimistic about newspapers. "Newspapers have strong brands and may will establish them online, as The Guardian, particulary, has done. Perhaps the web will eventually become a newspaper's main medium, with the printed version surviving as a niche luxury, rather like a leather-bound book."

But the question remains: how much would readers be prepared to pay for it?

Alastair Campbell goes AOL

2006-02-21T03:21:00.000-08:00

In Piers Morgan's 'The Insider' he describes Labour's 1997 campaign HQ as a "ruthless machine with the latest technology to support it." However, Tony Blair's former media henchman Alastair Campbell doesn't remember it quite like that and on Radio 4's Start the Week he admitted to his technophobe tendencies during a discussion about politics and the internet.

Now out of government (or so he would like us to believe) he has written about what he calls technopolitics for AOL and reveals: "I have had to learn to do things for myself a lot more. Allelujah, I can do e-mail." Well done, Ally! He's not so evangelical, however, about the power of the web and says it is unlikely to quickly replace TV as a medium to broadcast communications to mass audiences. Campbell believes its future role in politics lies in different directions - building campaign networks, fundraising, local information and stirring debate.

The US has shown the way. For a quick lowdown read Steve McGookin's, take on it. He's currently writing a doctoral thesis at the University of London on the intersection of politics, the media and the internet.

Sad geek warning: did you know Estonia (or E-stonia as my Baltic brethren like to brand it) was among the first to experiment with net voting. Well, I thought it was interesting anyway.

To blog or not to blog....

2006-02-20T04:52:00.000-08:00

It's pretty self-evident what I think the answer to that question is. And if you are a student journalist what better way of presenting your work, maximising your profile and reaching out to prospective employers? Why not harness the net in practical terms with an online CV? You can always take part in the philosophical debate on the power of blogs at Cemp - Bournemouth's Centre for Excellence in Media Practice where Roman Gerodimos poses the question: Blogs - online therapy or new power structure?
For a different slant read Trevor Butterworth's piece in the FT Magazine. "Blogging is the closest literary culture has come to instant obsolescence," he argues.

Convergence Week - if you're happy and you know it clap your hands

2006-02-15T01:23:00.000-08:00

It was Convergence Week at BMS last week which explains why everyone looked so stressed out. If you just mention the c-word to some journalists it sends them into a spasm in much the same way 'multi-media' used to. I think it is mainly the thought of having to do EVERYTHING. Or perhaps they don't really know what it means. "I am not a knob twiddler. I am a human being!" That sort of thing. A basic definition is: the technology driven unification of different media channels. But convergence is a buzzword that has been distended to also mean everything from corporate strategies to technological developments to job descriptions.

Sad geek warning: the subject came up over lunch with Chindu Sreedharan (at BU polishing up his PHd on the role of the media in conflict situations, with special focus on Kashmir). He doesn't mince his words in a piece for the Poynter Institute where he quotes Rich Gordon, journalism professor at Northwestern University. "No longer can journalists assume that just because they work in one medium (say, a print newspaper), they don't need to worry about how their story should be presented in another (on television or the Web) ... On the other hand, we are not necessarily moving into an era when a single journalist needs to do it all ... There will always be a need for specialists who do one thing particularly well."

Something tells me I'll be coming back to this one. I'm interested in your views so tell me what you think.

My name is url

2006-02-14T03:26:00.000-08:00

February 14 - and yes, it can be revealed, I love the internet. What else would you expect the champion of all things online at Bournemouth Media School to say?! But before I go all Mariah Carey on you and start talking about kittens and what I had for breakfast (there are 27m other blogs out there where you can get that stuff) I need to tell you something - and it's not very romantic.

You see, there are four of us in this relationship - print, TV, radio, online. Call it convergence, the integrated newsroom or multi-media (whatever rings your bell). It doesn't matter what your orientation is, bi-, tri- or Channel 5, or if your first love is print or the net. If you want a job in journalism (and that is the first question all students ask me) get with the programme, or at least on to a decent course - shameless plug for BA and MA courses at Bournemouth Media School. And whatever you do, don't refer to a past lover as 'dead wood', it's not very nice and might cut your chances of future employment.

My blog promise: keep everyone up to date with what I am teaching and learning at BMS, links to the online journalism debate and links to good journalism both within and without (if you detect an FT bias, I'm allowed, I work there and it's only fair since the editor allowed me to go off desk to do this gig). I also want to hear what you think - so post at will. And send me your urls - I want to read your stuff. If you are a bit old media and don't know how to do this - please see me! Or else e-mail me at lrohumaa@bournemouth.ac.uk and then I can hunt you down...

In the meantime, and since it is St Valentine's Day, allow me a Mariah moment.