The BBC has created a button that you can add to your blog in a show of support for BBC Reporter Alan Johnston who was abducted in Gaza on the 12th of March. The button is being added to all… Continue Reading
One of the livejournal blogs I found yesterday and linked to from here contains the account of Kate, written by her friend Paul, and tells how a gunman entered her classroom at Norris Hall and began shooting. After the gunman… Continue Reading
Alan Johnston, a BBC journalist, was abuducted as he returned home from his Gaza office over a month ago, on the 12th of March (timeline). On Friday, over 30,000 people signed an online petition calling for Alan’s release following a… Continue Reading
Last week’s bloggers open house at the Daily Telegraph was quite interesting because much of the discussion ended up being about that achille’s heel of online community management: moderation. Participants in online discussions hate moderation. This is fairly easy to… Continue Reading
17.50 Thursday: I’m on may way to The Daily Telegraph’s Blogging Open House, organised by Shane Richmond, the Telegraph’s Communities Editor and Blogger in Chief who announced the event – where else – on his blog. The evening will be… Continue Reading
BBC relic Originally uploaded by dan taylor. Whilst cleaning out my rucksack this morning I came across this quote, neatly clipped from the Business and Media section of the Observer (01 April 2007 pg. 9): Those who suspected that former… Continue Reading
mmr07: Teckensprak Originally uploaded by robinhamman. Gunilla Wagstrom, the “world’s first deaf tv producer”, and Ingeborg Swartlingare from Swedish Educational Broadcasting are giving a presentation about a project called teckensprakswebben. They’ve created a website that helps people to learn Swedish… Continue Reading
Graham Holliday, who blogs at noodlepie spent some time recently talking with Guido Fawkes, often referred to as “Britain’s biggest political blogger”. Guido recently interviewed Nick Robinson who didn’t think much of the final product – using his rather good… Continue Reading
Here’s a video of Guillaume’s (who is moblogging) presentation (well done tuija!): Hillary Perkins (tuija has video) is giving the first of several BBC presentations of the conference. Radio One rented an island on Second Life. She says the point… Continue Reading
I’m sitting next to BBC Manchester’s Richard Fair at Multimedia Meets Radioconference at the European Broadcasting Union in Geneva. Yes, the EBU are the people who put on the Eurovision song contest. Michael Mullane, who seems to be the person… Continue Reading