I don’t watch much television – so little of it is compelling to me and, even if it was, I don’t have much time to spend watching it anyway. It’s not a matter of my lacking access to good video… Continue Reading
Bush Administration wants anyone offering community or publishing platform to keep records “The Bush administration has accelerated its Internet surveillance push by proposing that Web sites must keep records of who uploads photographs or videos in case police determine the… Continue Reading
Interview with Rob Curley: vice president of product dev for Washingtonpost/Newsweek Interactive Includes a good bullet point list of what news orgs need to do to adapt to the online world (tags: journalism journalisttraining news2.0 washingtonpost newspaperbusiness newspaperwebsites) A charity… Continue Reading
The French Constitutional Council has, according to the IDG News Service, “approved a law that criminalizes the filming or broadcasting of acts of violence by people other than professional journalists. The law could lead to the imprisonment of eyewitnesses who… Continue Reading
WashingtonPost: Police Turn to YouTube to Catch Suspects Patrolman Brian Johnson of the Franklin, Mass., Police Department used YouTube to post a surveillance video showing two men using allegedly stolen credit cards at a Home Depot… (tags: washingtonpost youtube crime… Continue Reading
This week I’ll be talking about blogging on three different BBC local radio programmes. I think my colleagues in radio must have put my name into a database of interview guests or something because in the past two weeks I’ve… Continue Reading
Steve Hermann ponders the future of BBC News Blogs “Should BBC correspondents writing for the News website write in blogs, or in conventional diaries/columns? Not the most burning issue in the world maybe but we’ve been pondering it nonetheless…” (tags:… Continue Reading
The BBC has just announced a partnership with YouTube. The deal will create three BBC branded channels (two in the UK) on the video sharing service: From the BBC: Clips of new shows and specially commissioned promotional content linked to… Continue Reading
Me and My Blogs in the Manchester Evening News Originally uploaded by robinhamman. Last Thursday the Manchester Evening News carried a full page article about blogging. As the article points out, Manchester is emerging as one of the UK’s key… Continue Reading
Thursday 9:21 am 3/1/07 Originally uploaded by robinhamman. I spent most of yesterday at a “social media consensus” workshop at the British Library. The group included people working with social media from a range of organisations including Microsoft, Channel 4,… Continue Reading