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
Toronto based fashion and shopping blog I want – I got picks up on a rather strange advertising campaign for Calvin Klein’s new in2u scent. “We have envisioned this as the first fragrance for the technosexual generation,” said Mr. Murry,… 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 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
Me and My Blogs in the Manchester Evening News Originally uploaded by robinhamman. Last Thursday the Manchester Evening News carried a full page article about blogging. As the article points out, Manchester is emerging as one of the UK’s key… Continue Reading
Thursday 9:21 am 3/1/07 Originally uploaded by robinhamman. I spent most of yesterday at a “social media consensus” workshop at the British Library. The group included people working with social media from a range of organisations including Microsoft, Channel 4,… Continue Reading
Regular readers will know that I’m involved in a project, the BBC Manchester Blog, that I think provides an interesting and sustainable model for news and media companies wishing to engage with “user generated content” – the stuff that people… Continue Reading
Tomorrow I’ll be giving a presentation about blogging to a group of radio producers and executives. I reckon some of them might still be of the persuasion that blogs are simply “web based diaries” and want to do something that… Continue Reading