Outside Tony’s new gaffe Originally uploaded by Azeem Azhar I’m listening to the BBC News coverage of Tony Blair’s final minutes at the British Prime Minister. It’s exactly what you expect to see – big name BBC reporters… Continue Reading
I’m one of the half dozen BBC people attending The Social Impact of the Web event today at the RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce) in London. The central theme is: “With e-democracy and new… 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
The French Constitutional Council has, according to the IDG News Service, “approved a law that criminalizes the filming or broadcasting of acts of violence by people other than professional journalists. The law could lead to the imprisonment of eyewitnesses who… Continue Reading
The campaign website for American Democratic Presidential hopeful, Senator Barack Obama, has pulled out all the stops to embrace social software. From the main index, visitors can join the site and create a profile which they can then use to… Continue Reading
My post the other day about the BBC’s Nick Robinson live blogging from a White House press briefing landing Bush in trouble after the Daily Kos and others picked up on discrepencies between the wording blogged (and heard on camera)… Continue Reading
When the BBC’s Political Editor, Nick Robinson, went to the White House for a press conference with George Bush and Tony Blair, he did something fairly extraordinary – he composed it on his Blackberry and hit send as the President… Continue Reading
The American mid-term elections are today (Tuesday 07 Nov) and lots of bloggers – and I’m not just talking about the BBC, Daily Kos and Instapundit – are likely to be providing coverage of the elections, last minute campaigning and… Continue Reading
It wasn’t quite the point I was trying to make when I posted yesterday about Guido scoffing at the idea of getting out of bed for £21,000, reportedly the average being offered for professional bloggers as based on a large… Continue Reading
Most political campaigns aren’t exactly cutting edge or, at least they haven’t been until now. Over on Smartmobs they’re talking about the use of mobile phone technology in campaigning, having linked to a 30 page pdf on the subject the… Continue Reading