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’m one of the half dozen BBC people attending The Social Impact of the Web event today at the RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce) in London. The central theme is: “With e-democracy and new… Continue Reading
Plazes is a service that tracks your mobile phone and/or the points where you connect to the internet and plots them on a map. You can then add descriptions and images to the new plazes you create so that other… Continue Reading
(note: I’ve just posted the following entry on the BBC College of Journalism blog. The opinions expressed in this post are my own and are NOT official BBC policy. I’m reposting here, outside the BBC firewall, so that you can… Continue Reading
This was my view from the podium as John Patrick introduces me at the BBC’s Internal Management Conference, “The Future of News”, where I was giving a presentation about blogging to a group of around 80 senior BBC managers. Of… Continue Reading
medborgarmedier Originally uploaded by robinhamman. I’m not exactly sure what the title means, but I’m in Karlstad, Sweden – the self proclaimed, and currently somewhat overcast, “city of sunshine” – where I’ll be giving a presentation tomorrow morning. I’ll post… Continue Reading
This morning I’ve been testing kyte.tv, a new – quite revolutionary – service that allows me to stream live video from my 3G cameraphone (Nokia N70) to a flash video player embedded into any website or blog (see below). A… 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
Because April was an unusual month, I’ve spent a little bit more time looking at the monthly statistics cybersoc.com than I normally would. For the 15 days leading up to the horrific Virginia Tech massacre, this blog served up an… Continue Reading
I just made my 1000th bookmark on del.icio.us – just one year one month and one day after I joined. That’s around 3 bookmarks per day, give or take a few percentage points that aren’t worth revisiting the math anxiety… Continue Reading