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
Last night I went to a Eurovision party. It’s something people all over Europe do – often dressing up in strange outfits to support the underdogs in the European Broadcasting Union’s annual music competition. But the party I went to… Continue Reading
I’ve posted a few times before about turning processes into content but wanted to try to pull it all together in a new way – combining it with the presentations I give that talk about unsustainable models of audience engagement… Continue Reading
This morning I spent an hour and a half showing a group of journalists at the BBC World Service how I use RSS, social networking services, social bookmarking, my blog and other tools. As I did, it dawned upon me… Continue Reading
I’m going to be speaking at quite a few conferences and events over the next few months. Do drop me a note if you’re speaking at or planning to attend one of these: 17 April – BBC World Service, Spanish… Continue Reading
Here’s a couple of twitter applications which could be useful for those working in journalism or broadcasting: PollDaddy makes it easy to create and run multiple choice polls on twitter. To use it you simply author a question, set up… Continue Reading
As part of the BBC’s White Season, a week of programmes on BBC2 as well as other BBC TV and Radio outlets, BBC News online hosted an online discussion asking if "white working class people [are] ignored in Britain?" The… Continue Reading
Cross-posting is useful where it genuinely adds value but sometimes it’s just plain spammy. That, at least, is the conclusion I’ve drawn on the use of automated cross-posting to and from blogs and social networking services. For the past month… Continue Reading
Click to Play A few days ago, Rory Cellan-Jones, the BBC’s Technology Correspondent, asked on his blog: "What would happen if everyone, anywhere, could have their own live television station from a mobile phone?" I guess the answer is, things… Continue Reading
Lee and Sachi at CommonCraft have probably, through their wonderfully simple video explantations, introduced more people to Social Bookmarking and RSS than anyone. Now they’ve done their magic with Twitter, a micro-blogging service that allows users to "share short, bite-sized… Continue Reading