I rarely find myself nodding in agreement with advice dished out by newspaper agony aunts, but Jeremy Bullmore, the Guardian's Dear Jeremy, had me doing exactly that on Saturday with a piece of advice that I think is spot on… Continue Reading
Last Friday I attended Jeecamp – the Journalism Enterprise and Entrepreneurship Unconference - in Birmingham. The event, organised by Paul Bradshaw from Birmingham City's School of Media, brought together journalists, editors, academics and entrepreneurs for a day of interesting discussion.… Continue Reading
It appears that conference season has begun. On Tuesday I moderated a panel about using social media to have "difficult conversations at Social Media Influence in London with panelists Headshift's Lee Bryant (my boss), Andy Hobsbawm from Agency.com and Paolo… Continue Reading
UK internet measurement agency Hitwise recently announced that Twitter's traffic has increased a staggering 1000% over the past year and now exceeds that to Digg. The Hitwise report reveals something far more interesting, in my mind at least – the… Continue Reading
I've been really busy speaking at different events the past few weeks. At the end of October, I spent an afternoon at the News of the World Editors Conference. I'm afraid I can't tell you much more about that but… Continue Reading
On Sunday, I’m heading to Ghent to take part in Blog Boat 1.0 – Citizen Journalism. As the name suggests, it’s an event about blogging and journalism which will take place on a boat but, rest assured, the organisers tell… Continue Reading
bbc blog costs £17 billion…Originally uploaded by robinhamman Last year, Iain Dale brought us the news that government blogs were costing tax payers many thousands of pounds a month to run. David Milliband’s blog, for example, apparently costs over £40,000… Continue Reading
I’m going to be speaking at the European Broadcasting Union’s International Broadcasting Conference in Geneva on Tuesday. It was a bit of a last minute booking, and will involve a 4am taxi journey to Luton Airport, but it will be… 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 used my camera phone, and a free service called qik, to stream live video of a panel discussion titled "God is a VJ". The panel included: • Pat Loughrey, Director, BBC Nations and Regions • … Continue Reading