After three or four months deliberating over which new mobile phone upgrade to, a process that’s caused me to realise that there is no single solution that does everything I require, I’ve finally managed to get a new phone. The… Continue Reading
Spotted earlier today in London – and made me chuckle…;-)
I’m currently working on a project to investigate how the BBC might use one-click social bookmarking and recommendation service links across our content. The work, which coincides with work being done by our user experience (eg. interaction design) team, is… Continue Reading
Late last month, the Editor of the BBC News website, Steve Herrmann, wrote a post asking, "When is it acceptable for us to make use of personal pictures and video available on the internet? In the past, personal pictures of… Continue Reading
David Brain writes, "in this years’ Edelman Trust Barometer we asked opinion leaders in 18 countries about the news sources they rely on most for information on companies. Not surprisingly, local sources dominated, but three global brands appeared regularly among… Continue Reading
Stuart Pinfold, who works in the audio traffic department at the BBC (recording despatches as they come in and routing them to the appropriate broadcast outlet), has put together a google map that shows the locations of the BBC’s global… Continue Reading
Many people are starting to create cool things by aggregating RSS [what?] feeds, applying rules to them, then outputting the content in useful ways. My favourite two examples of this are the Best of the Journalism Blogs meta-feed created by… Continue Reading
I’m often astonished to come across – still – the occasional journalist or editor who thinks that linking out from a news story or other page to third party content is counterproductive because, in their minds, it simply sends traffic… Continue Reading
I’ve been invited to do an hour long session on blogging and social media – paying particular attention to turning existing processes into content and integrating blogs into programmes – at the DNA 2008 conference in Brussels, 3-4 March 2008.… Continue Reading
posh wash Originally uploaded by robinhamman For a long time I’ve been using my cameraphone to take and upload photos, via zonetag or shozu, to flickr where I’m just days away from posting my 2000th photo. Many of… Continue Reading