Over the past few months, I’ve recorded a number of interviews for BBC 5 Live’s Pods and Blogs. For those who have never dabbled in conducting an audio interview, it really is quite fun to walk up to people and… Continue Reading
Thursday 4:41 pm 1/18/07 Originally uploaded by robinhamman. At 11.30am today I set off from home for Manchester, a journey that should have taken around 3 hours and 20 minutes including an hour long connection. At 4.30pm I arrived at… Continue Reading
Yesterday, a journalism student wrote to ask: Do you feel blogging is a valid form of journalism? I responded with: Journalism and blogging need not be seperate activities undertaken by separate people and I certainly don’t believe that journalism is… Continue Reading
When the BBC’s Political Editor, Nick Robinson, went to the White House for a press conference with George Bush and Tony Blair, he did something fairly extraordinary – he composed it on his Blackberry and hit send as the President… Continue Reading
Thursday 6:16 pm 12/7/06 Originally uploaded by robinhamman. Today we had Charles Leadbeater in to give a presentation. Leadbeater is an “award winning consultant” who used to be a journalist at the Financial Times. If you read Jeff Jarvis, Dan… Continue Reading
A Canadian court case [R. v. LeBlanc, 2006 NBPC 37 (CanLII)] appears to have created two important legal precedents: that blogging can be an occupation and that bloggers are reporters (and have the same responsibility to follow the law as… Continue Reading
Back in February I found myself wondering outloud when flickr would position itself as a photo agency. Today the NY Times reports (Thanks Joe!) that Yahoo and Reuters have joined forces to launch a new “citizen journalism” service tomorrow, with… Continue Reading
As previously mentioned here, I’m taking part in a Readers’ Revolution panel discussion, organised by Journalism.co.uk, and taking place on Monday, 04 December, at Imperial College, London. Tickets for the event ran dry almost as soon as it was announced… Continue Reading
The first BBC Manchester Blogging Workshop, part of the BBC Manchester Blog Project, will take place on 6pm on Thursday the 18th of January, 2007. This free two hour workshop is for anyone who wants to learn more about blogging… Continue Reading
Reuters recent investment of USD $7 million in blog syndication service Pluck is already bearing fruit, with the launch of “related postings” from blogs appearing alongside (actually at the bottom of) Reuters own Health, Technology and Entertainment content. Dean Wright,… Continue Reading