Yesterday I returned from the DNA2008 conference in Brussels with my facebook and twitter bulging with new friends and contacts. The problem is, I suddenly found my friend feeds full of updates in Flemish, Dutch, French and other languages I… Continue Reading
In an interview with BBC Radio 4’s Chris Vallance, Tim Toulmin, the Director of the Press Complaints Commission, revealed that the PCC is embarking on a major consultative investigation of how news and media organisations are reusing content found online,… Continue Reading
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
According to BBC News, buyers and sellers on ebay will no longer, from May, be able to leave neutral or negative feedback. EBay claims that negative comments were slowing down trade and leading to other problems because those given negative… Continue Reading
One of the bigger stories today in the blogosphere is that Robert Scoble has had his facebook account blocked after running a script to scrape the data out of his account so that he could take it, and one assumes… Continue Reading
Three potentially interesting conferences coming up in the first half of next year, with paper submissions in Dec 07 / Jan 08. I’m likely to be speaking at the event in Skopje. Futuresonic 2008: The Social – Online, Mobile and… Continue Reading
Last week I was interviewed by Valeria Maltoni for her marketing blog, Conversation Agent. We spoke about finding inspiration for blogging, the BBC’s blog strategy and how blogging is changing the work that journalists and editors do. The post ended… Continue Reading
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a post explaining my decision to take a lot of personal information off my facebook profile following a number of informal chats I’d had with various people about privacy, identity theft and the… Continue Reading
kitbag for Cardiff trip Originally uploaded by robinhamman If you’re close to Cardiff University on Wednesday you might be able to catch me giving a presentation at the School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies (Bute Building) from… Continue Reading