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
Extortion charges dropped as two take deal in MySpace case The pair had developed software that gave myspace users the ability to track visitors to their profiles based upon IP address. Many bloggers do it with statcounter, so I don’t… Continue Reading
Regular readers will know that I’m involved in a project, the BBC Manchester Blog, that I think provides an interesting and sustainable model for news and media companies wishing to engage with “user generated content” – the stuff that people… Continue Reading
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