Linkitä, linkitä, linkitä! Originally uploaded by tuija. Tuija grabbed this shot of Richard Fair (right) and myself on stage at the European Broadcasting Union, waiting to give our presentation earlier. While looking at her blog, which is mostly in Finnish… Continue Reading
Graham Holliday, who blogs at noodlepie spent some time recently talking with Guido Fawkes, often referred to as “Britain’s biggest political blogger”. Guido recently interviewed Nick Robinson who didn’t think much of the final product – using his rather good… 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
A few weeks ago, John Thompson, the publisher of Journalism.co.uk (and a nice bloke) emailed to let me know that this blog would be included in a mash-up of journalism blogs he was creating using Yahoo Pipes. For those who… Continue Reading
BBC Manchester’s Richard Fair and myself will be giving a presentation at the Multimedia Meets Radio conference (pdf) organised by the European Broadcasting Union in Geneva, Switzerland on the 29th and 30th of March. We’ll be talking about the BBC… Continue Reading
For months I’ve been proactively trying to cut down on the number of RSS feeds I’m subscribed to because, these days, I rarely get a chance to check more than a dozen of them each day anyway. There’s something about… Continue Reading
The recent controversy over premium rate phone in votes to television programmes in the UK not being tallied properly underlines the point that audiences will eventually question, then turn against, participation for participation’s sake. The programmes in question, where audience… Continue Reading
I don’t watch much television – so little of it is compelling to me and, even if it was, I don’t have much time to spend watching it anyway. It’s not a matter of my lacking access to good video… Continue Reading
The French Constitutional Council has, according to the IDG News Service, “approved a law that criminalizes the filming or broadcasting of acts of violence by people other than professional journalists. The law could lead to the imprisonment of eyewitnesses who… Continue Reading
This week I’ll be talking about blogging on three different BBC local radio programmes. I think my colleagues in radio must have put my name into a database of interview guests or something because in the past two weeks I’ve… Continue Reading