Last December, in a guest post I wrote over on the Telegraph's Technology Blog, I gave some of my own predictions of social media trends I think we'll see in 2009. Along a similar line, Trendspotting has shared an interesting… Continue Reading
Many thanks to all of you who visited, and particularly to those who commented or quoted and linked, over 2008. I look forward to what the year ahead will bring. Over the year, there were 78,128 page views from 65,681… Continue Reading
I'm the Dubai Marriott for The New Media Event, billed as "the first event in the region dedicated to the growing power of new media…" I've not made much of an attempt to value add in this post – it's… Continue Reading
Tomorrow will be the second of the four lecture and workshop sessions I'm scheduled to deliver on the City University MA in International Journalism course during the 2008/9 academic year. I've given plenty of one off lectures at universities in… Continue Reading
I've been really busy speaking at different events the past few weeks. At the end of October, I spent an afternoon at the News of the World Editors Conference. I'm afraid I can't tell you much more about that but… Continue Reading
Today was my first day teaching on the MA International Journalism programme at City University London. In preparation, I’ve been asking my twitter and facebook followers to help me come up with an outline for the lecture and received an… Continue Reading
On Sunday, I’m heading to Ghent to take part in Blog Boat 1.0 – Citizen Journalism. As the name suggests, it’s an event about blogging and journalism which will take place on a boat but, rest assured, the organisers tell… Continue Reading
I spent most of the morning on BBC radio. It all started yesterday, when I saw a tweet by Rory Cellan-Jones, alerting me to a blog post he was writing in response to a Wired article proclaiming blogging is dead.… Continue Reading
More than anything else, the thing I love about blogging is that it brings people together. Not just online, but offline too. Which, I guess, is why I find myself organising yet another blogger meet-up, this time in St. Albans… Continue Reading