Last November I wrote a post in response to the question "what’s the point of tv and radio blogs?" – a question which, I think, is fundamental for understanding why the BBC has been getting into blogging and how we’re… Continue Reading
Iain Dale, one of the UK’s leading political bloggers, recently asked 500 of his blog’s readers to list their 30 favourite media blogs. Top of the list is BBC Political Editor, Nick Robinson whose blog is one of 9 BBC… Continue Reading
Recently I’ve been kept quite busy organising, amongst other things, a big blogging event here at the BBC. It’s internal (sorry) but various people are going to be blogging, twittering and otherwise telling the world outside the firewall about it.… Continue Reading
At last week’s Networked Journalism Summit in New York I was interviewed by Alan Levy and John C. Havens for blog talk radio. I spoke about my role at the BBC, where I spend a lot of my time speaking… Continue Reading
Jeff Jarvis kicked off the Networked Journalism Summit by walking us through the hectic schedule of the day. The event should be well covered as there is free wifi and the Times Center Auditorium is a sea of bloggers feverishly… Continue Reading
I’m in New York City for the Networked Journalism Summit that’s been organised by Jeff Jarvis to bring together the best practices and practitioners in collaborative, pro-am journalism. I’m hoping to meet up with Neil McIntosh from the Guardian later… Continue Reading
The Guardian’s Readers’ Editor, Siobhain Butterworth, has written an insightful post explaining why, in some circumstances, posts on Comment is Free don’t allow comments from readers. Online community managers will also find some sound advice here. Butterworth writes, "Last week…… Continue Reading
Manchester Blog Stories is a project where readers can help determine the twists of plot in a work of blog based fiction or, as they explain: "a fictional blog you can help to shape, set in real time Manchester. Each… Continue Reading
The UK blogosphere continues to buzz about last week’s incident involving an Uzbek billionaire requesting that an ISP remove content which he felt was defamatory. Lastnight, I spoke about UK libel law and how it relates to content originators and… Continue Reading
A number of UK bloggers, including the Tory London Mayoral Candidate Boris Johnson, had their blogs taken down by their ISP Friday following threats of legal action by Uzbek billionaire and major Arsenal shareholder Alisher Usmanov. The bloggers, who were… Continue Reading