In March 2007, Jay Rosen helped launch Assignment Zero, a networked journalism experiment that got a bit of help from Wired.com. He posted his review of that project last night on his blog PressThink and has just walked the audience… Continue Reading
I’m at the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA) office in London where Howard Rheingold (who I’ve known online for many years and have had the pleasure of meeting, and interviewing, on a number of occasions) has… Continue Reading
As blogged earlier today by the Guardian’s Jemima Kiss, the BBC has teamed up with research teams from a number of UK universities to launch eight studies looking at user generated content, audiences, and social learning through virtual worlds: "The… Continue Reading
Jyri Engestrom’s thoughtful presentation at the NMK Forum in London two days ago was, for me at least, the most insightful presentation of the day. Luckily, I’d recently heard Lee Bryant mention Jyri and, as Lee usually gives a good… Continue Reading
I’m at a debate organised by the BBC College of Journalism to discuss how the Virginia Tech shootings were covered by mainstream media, particularly in America. The email about the event says the following will be covered: The Cho Seung-hui… Continue Reading
I’ve spent the last couple of weeks mulling over three presentations I’ll be giving over the next two weeks: 09/10 May: Karlstads Universitet in Sweden – I’ll be giving a 45 minute presentation at Medborgarmedier (flyer pdf) as part of… Continue Reading
Justin Hall is often credited as being one of the first bloggers. Justin’s Links from the Underground, started as a sort of tour of the early internet turned into an intimate diary of his life. He stopped actively blogging because,… Continue Reading
I’ve been invited to speak, along with my BBC Manchester Blog colleague Richard Fair, at the 6th Journalism Leaders Forum will take place at the University of Central Lancashire on the 15th of May, 2007. According to the website, “The… 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
A book I contributed a chapter to, Online Matchmaking is now available for pre-order on Amazon. The book was edited by by Monica T. Whitty, Andrea J. Baker, James A. Inman. My chapter looks at how things have changed in… Continue Reading