Manchester Evening News talks about BBC Manchester Blog and My Blogs The article talks about our first blogging workshop, which was held at BBC Manchester last Thursday, as well as my various blogs. (tags: bbc bbcblogs bbcblog bbcmanchesterblog bbcmanchester manchester… Continue Reading
I just spotted a good post over on Buzzmachine where Jarvis pretty much backs up what I’ve been saying here for a long time: If you don’t have the content people are looking for, and someone else does, don’t bother… Continue Reading
Tomorrow I’ll be giving a presentation about blogging to a group of radio producers and executives. I reckon some of them might still be of the persuasion that blogs are simply “web based diaries” and want to do something that… Continue Reading
Pro Golfer sues business with IP range to trace author of potentially defamatory wikipedia entry Pro golfer Fuzzy Zoeller is suing to track down the author who posted what he considers a defamatory paragraph about him on the Internet reference… Continue Reading
Libel Tourism? Cameron Diaz successfully sues US website for libel in UK court The UK has some of the toughest libel laws – some would say skewed to far towards claimants – and now foreign parties are bringing their libel… Continue Reading
On the 5th I posted about my quest to use the data protection act, and some knowledge gleened from the internet, to claw back some of the bank charges I’ve paid over the years. I wrote “Data Subject Access Request”… Continue Reading
Good sources for UK internet statistics (tags: statistics uk newmedia) Citizen Journalists Compete with Pros to Make Paper’s Homepage ยท MarketingVOX (tags: denmark citizenjournalism citizensnappers usergeneratedcontent) ‘At first it seemed like career suicide’ – Adam Reuters Adam Reuters, the Reuters… Continue Reading
BBC Manchester Originally uploaded by robinhamman. On Thursday, I’m helping give a blogging workshop at BBC Manchester. We’re going to talk about the BBC Manchester Blog project which I’ve written about here before, introduce the BBC’s Editorial Guidelines, then help… Continue Reading
Islanders believe in American GI “John Frum” as their messiah Wowed by US tanks and hardware during WW2, Island villagers continue to believe that their messiah was responsible for delivering to them the munificence of the US military. (tags: weird… Continue Reading
Inventor of the Television Remote Control Dies (tags: tv television)