The Manchester Blog Awards return for the third year running thanks to the efforts of Manchizzle and others. They don’t have a category for blogs that closed earlier this year but, if they did, I reckon we’d be in for… Continue Reading
When the English county of Berkshire was hit by flooding last year, Ollie Williams, then at BBC Berkshire, put together a map that mashed up BBC coverage, the location of emergency relief centres, flickr photos and youtube videos. Now Ollie’s… Continue Reading
I’ve long thought that the BBC’s public service content, paid for as it is by the license fee payer, is effectively owned by those who paid for it. Unfortunately, that’s not, for a whole slew of reasons – some real… Continue Reading
It’s my third day in my new job as a Social Media Consultant at Headshift and already I find myself giving a presentation at a conference, 2gether08. The panel I’m on, Inside Out – How Social Technologies are Influencing Work,… Continue Reading
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On Wednesday (25 June) I’ll be at the Press Gazette Media Law conference in London, delivering what will be my last conference presentation as a BBC person before I leave (on Friday) to join Headshift. I’m going to be speaking… Continue Reading
I streamed about 45 minutes of the "What is the Media For Today?" panel at Media Futures Conference (backchannel tracker feed here) before the memory on my N95 was filled, then the battery started to pack in, then someone tweeted… Continue Reading
For a couple of weeks I’ve been dropping hints, via tweets and facebook updates of course, that I would soon be leaving the BBC. Now that everyone who really needs to know has been informed of my departure, I can… Continue Reading
Ariana Huffington from the Huffington Post is standing a few feet away from me, addressing a standing room only gathering, primarily journalsts (that’s Chris Vallance from iPM and Pods & Blogs in the front middle with Rory Cellan-Jones, BBC… Continue Reading
At this very moment (I’ve set this up to auto-publish), I should be stepping up on the stage at the Below you’ll find the presentation I just gave at the Embracing New Media conference in Amsterdam. Forty-two slides in around… Continue Reading