My friend and former work colleague, Matthew Cashmore, who is soon to leave BBC Backstage for his dream job at Lonely Planet in Melbourne, has teamed up with a couple of his mates on a Journey to Russia to raise… Continue Reading
Last night I gave a presentation at PR Newswire’s Meet the Media event. I kicked off by asking the audience how many of them had come to learn how they could get their messages across to bloggers. At least half,… Continue Reading
If you’re based in London, you can catch me speaking, alongside Michael Pranikoff, Director of Emerging Media at PR Newswire, and Robert Andrews of PaidContent, at the next PR Newswire Meet the Media event on 04 September 2008. The free… Continue Reading
When the English county of Berkshire was hit by flooding last year, Ollie Williams, then at BBC Berkshire, put together a map that mashed up BBC coverage, the location of emergency relief centres, flickr photos and youtube videos. Now Ollie’s… Continue Reading
Last week as I was stopped on Oxford Street by a crew from TVP1 (Poland) and asked to give a vox pop (comment) on the attire of British politicians. Gordon Brown, I told them, tends to look quite stuffy and… Continue Reading
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This morning I had the pleasure of interviewing Dominic Sparkes*, Managing Director of Tempero, one of the leading online content and community moderation providers. Other UK based moderation providers include ChatModerators and eModeration Ltd. In the video, Dom provides insight… Continue Reading
On Wednesday (25 June) I’ll be at the Press Gazette Media Law conference in London, delivering what will be my last conference presentation as a BBC person before I leave (on Friday) to join Headshift. I’m going to be speaking… Continue Reading
I streamed about 45 minutes of the "What is the Media For Today?" panel at Media Futures Conference (backchannel tracker feed here) before the memory on my N95 was filled, then the battery started to pack in, then someone tweeted… Continue Reading
For a couple of weeks I’ve been dropping hints, via tweets and facebook updates of course, that I would soon be leaving the BBC. Now that everyone who really needs to know has been informed of my departure, I can… Continue Reading