If you’re buying Christmas gifts from Amazon.co.uk this year, you can help me pay my annual typepad bill by using the links below when you do. If you click one of the items below and end up making a purchase… Continue Reading
When the BBC’s Political Editor, Nick Robinson, went to the White House for a press conference with George Bush and Tony Blair, he did something fairly extraordinary – he composed it on his Blackberry and hit send as the President… Continue Reading
Thursday 6:16 pm 12/7/06 Originally uploaded by robinhamman. Today we had Charles Leadbeater in to give a presentation. Leadbeater is an “award winning consultant” who used to be a journalist at the Financial Times. If you read Jeff Jarvis, Dan… Continue Reading
A Canadian court case [R. v. LeBlanc, 2006 NBPC 37 (CanLII)] appears to have created two important legal precedents: that blogging can be an occupation and that bloggers are reporters (and have the same responsibility to follow the law as… Continue Reading
‘Mid West Mafia’ and the Readers’ Revolution Finally, I’ve made it onto youtube… (tags: youtube journalism journalisttraining bbcblogs) Swedish Internet Libel Cases Increase Dramatically in Number The number of people making libel claims against those writing and/or publishing comments, discusisons… Continue Reading
Manchester City Council is consulting the public about a bid they hope to make for Government funding to build Europe’s largest wifi hotspot – a whopping 400 square miles worth of wire free internet access. Sounds great to me but… Continue Reading
Scoopt is after your Flickr photos – just tag ’em Taking a leaf from the BBC Manchester blog and other projects where users are told not to submit content, but to tag it, Scoopt wants your flickr photos… it just… Continue Reading
Jarvis blogs re: BBC Manchester Blogging Workshops (tags: bbcblogs bbcmanchesterblog bbcblog blogging bloggingtechniques jeffjarvis) The Demise of the Professional Photojournalist (Dan Gillmor) Nice historical piece that suggests “The pros have a problem. They can’t possibly compete in the media-sphere of… Continue Reading
Back in February I found myself wondering outloud when flickr would position itself as a photo agency. Today the NY Times reports (Thanks Joe!) that Yahoo and Reuters have joined forces to launch a new “citizen journalism” service tomorrow, with… Continue Reading