Yesterday I took a phone call from a BBC colleague who was hoping for some tips as to where he might look – photo and video sharing websites, social networking service, etc – for people posting from inside Burma. Journalists… Continue Reading
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
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
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
BBC Berkshire has created a Google Map mash-up that plots and displays the 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
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
As blogged earlier today by the Guardian’s Jemima Kiss, the BBC has teamed up with research teams from a number of UK universities to launch eight studies looking at user generated content, audiences, and social learning through virtual worlds: "The… Continue Reading
Outside Tony’s new gaffe Originally uploaded by Azeem Azhar I’m listening to the BBC News coverage of Tony Blair’s final minutes at the British Prime Minister. It’s exactly what you expect to see – big name BBC reporters… Continue Reading
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Although packed to the rafters with good participants (too many of them?), the Media, Publishing and Advertising Panel was somewhat directionless for the first twenty minutes or so. Then they started talking about journalism – below are some rough notes:… Continue Reading