When the BBC’s Political Editor, Nick Robinson, went to the White House for a press conference with George Bush and Tony Blair, he did something fairly extraordinary – he composed it on his Blackberry and hit send as the President… Continue Reading
Thursday 6:16 pm 12/7/06 Originally uploaded by robinhamman. Today we had Charles Leadbeater in to give a presentation. Leadbeater is an “award winning consultant” who used to be a journalist at the Financial Times. If you read Jeff Jarvis, Dan… Continue Reading
Manchester City Council is consulting the public about a bid they hope to make for Government funding to build Europe’s largest wifi hotspot – a whopping 400 square miles worth of wire free internet access. Sounds great to me but… Continue Reading
As previously mentioned here, I’m taking part in a Readers’ Revolution panel discussion, organised by Journalism.co.uk, and taking place on Monday, 04 December, at Imperial College, London. Tickets for the event ran dry almost as soon as it was announced… Continue Reading
The first BBC Manchester Blogging Workshop, part of the BBC Manchester Blog Project, will take place on 6pm on Thursday the 18th of January, 2007. This free two hour workshop is for anyone who wants to learn more about blogging… Continue Reading
If a dispute between The Newspaper Guild of Greater Philadelphia and the publishers of The Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News isn’t settled by midnight tonight, the union has announced that instead of simply manning picket lines, members will immediately… Continue Reading
A few months ago I went on holiday and left my blog at home. This presented a dilemma for me and I sought, and received, advice from a number of regular readers. I’m not, of course, the first blogger to… Continue Reading
A couple of weeks ago Andrew Grant-Adamson, who teaches journalism at the University of Westminster, kicked off an interesting debate when he asked “What’s the Purpose of Newspaper Blogs?“. That debate drew comment from The Guardian’s Neil Mcintosh, The Telegraph’s… Continue Reading
I’m working on a project where we require a web based RSS reader that can output RSS. Sounds crazy, I know, but basically we want to populate the RSS reader with a whole bunch of feeds, split into different categories,… Continue Reading
The BBC’s long running Newsnight, a TV current affairs programme that most people in the UK will be familiar with, is asking viewers to submit their own news and current affairs videos for inclusion in the programme early in 2007.… Continue Reading