On Friday 22 September I’ll be interviewing Howard Rheingold for BBC 5 Live’s Pods and Blogs. Howard has done so much over the past 10 – 15 years of his career that I need your help coming up with some… Continue Reading
BBC Radio 4’s Mark Savage has spent the past several months researching, writing and producing Meet the Bloggers, a new weekly radio series that starts at 9.30am on Tuesday (29 Aug). Some of the audio from the series, as well… Continue Reading
For a few months now I’ve been dropping hints, posting supportive arguments and gathering tips from those running similar projects and today I can tell you what it’s all about because we’ve finally launched the BBC Manchester Blog. In a… Continue Reading
Last Friday I had the pleasure of spending half an hour speaking by phone with Geoff Dougherty, editor of the ChiTownDailyNews. He’s an interesting and friendly bloke whose doing interesting things in Chicago. Dougherty, a journalist with 14 years of… Continue Reading
Yesterday I made my first post over on the Pods and Blogs. It’s a whirlwind tour of the perception of online community as a concept, and development of the online community management industry, from 1993 to today. Here’s a quick… Continue Reading
Last month I had the pleasure of a spending a few hours with online community guru Nancy White who visited the BBC, and gave a presentation at e-mint, whilst in London. As I mentioned here previously, BBC Radio 5 Live’s… Continue Reading
In the last couple of years of the 70’s, or perhaps early 80’s, my parents decided to get a station wagon (the British call this an Estate Car) to better haul our growing family and groceries around. The one thing… Continue Reading
Even Ashley Highfield, the BBC’s Director of New Media and Technology, is a citizen journalist now – I spotted his photo of the queues at Heathrow in a BBC News Online gallery today (click through to the third photo).
When Gina Ford instructed her solicitors to send a letter to the ISP hosting mumsnet, threatening to sue them for libel if they didn’t cease hosting the community site for moms and expectant moms, she probably had no idea how… Continue Reading
Technorati’s Dave Sifry has issued his State of the Blogosphere for August 2006. It’s the usual story of the number of blogs growing at an incredible pace – a new one every two seconds (about 8% of those are spam… Continue Reading