Next month I’ll be in New York City to attend a Networked Journalism Summit that’s being organised by Jeff Jarvis, hosted at CUNY, and is funded by a grant from the MacArthur Foundation. The list of attendees is quite impressive,… Continue Reading
IMAGE_045 Originally uploaded by robinhamman I’m giving a blogging presentation at BBC Cardiff and wanted to show them how to post from flickr to typepad….
The new BBC Rugby World Cup Blog, which launched at the end of last week, isn’t the first BBC blog or website to use twitter but it’s almost certainly going to be the most high profile use of the service… Continue Reading
<I started a post about social bookmarking but ended up writing about the apparent disappearance of technorati from the Washington Post’s article pages – jump down to normal text for the WP stuff> I’m a big fan of social bookmarking… Continue Reading
I’ve long enjoyed reading the CommonCraft blog, an excellent source of information aimed primarily at online community builders. Their recent focus has been a series of short videos that explain potentially complex and confusing web tools into plain English. The… Continue Reading
A few days ago, I posted about BBC Berkshire’s google maps mash-up showing areas affected by flood warnings, the location of council emergency centres, places where BBC Radio Berkshire has reported from (called outside broadcasts or OB’s), videos of the… Continue Reading
The BBC’s Ben Hammersley, who recently returned from Turkey where he was using various social media tools and blogging techniques to give greater depth and insight into his coverage of the Turkish Parliamentary elections, will be talking about the experiment… Continue Reading
A few weeks ago, I came across an ad for what would probably be the dream job for a reader of this blog. I thought I’d lost the details but yesterday found the ad in my wallet. You’ve still got… Continue Reading
Regular readers will know that, as the Virginia Tech massacre unfolded I, like many other journalists and reporters, went online to see if I could find any firsthand accounts coming out of the campus. One particular account I found, that… Continue Reading
Look at that! Originally uploaded by Paul Hurst About 20 people attended the Manchester Bloggers meetup that we organised as part of the BBC Manchester Blog project. This photo from Paul Hurst really captures the mood – a… Continue Reading