In my preparation for the Networked Journalism Summit tomorrow, I came across a thoughtful post by Jeff Jarvis who asks, "So if news is conversation, then the question is, how do we teach the conversation?" It’s a good question, and… Continue Reading
The Google Monster has swooped again, this time devouring Jaiku, a social networking / microblogging service that’s a bit like twitter with a nicer interface. You’ll be able to see for yourself once the initial interest dies off a bit… Continue Reading
Dump Your Pen Friend Originally uploaded by sesh00 Creative commons licensing gives content producers control over who uses their work and how. I use a creative commons license on nearly all the photos I post to flickr and… Continue Reading
Yesterday I took a phone call from a BBC colleague who was hoping for some tips as to where he might look – photo and video sharing websites, social networking service, etc – for people posting from inside Burma. Journalists… Continue Reading
I’m at the 2nd European Corporate Blogging Summit where I kicked things off earlier with some opening remarks. As usual, I’ve uploaded my slides and my notes (Download bfiblogconnotescybersoc.rtf). Andrew Piper from IBM’s WebSphere Solutions team is now enthusiastically speaking… Continue Reading
Next month I’ll be in New York City to attend a Networked Journalism Summit that’s being organised by Jeff Jarvis, hosted at CUNY, and is funded by a grant from the MacArthur Foundation. The list of attendees is quite impressive,… Continue Reading
I’m at the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA) office in London where Howard Rheingold (who I’ve known online for many years and have had the pleasure of meeting, and interviewing, on a number of occasions) has… Continue Reading
A BBC News article justed pointed me towards a particularly interesting new facebook application: Cityware is an application that helps you explore how your real world and online social networks are intertwined. Using Cityware you will be able to explore… Continue Reading
The new BBC Rugby World Cup Blog, which launched at the end of last week, isn’t the first BBC blog or website to use twitter but it’s almost certainly going to be the most high profile use of the service… Continue Reading
I’ve long enjoyed reading the CommonCraft blog, an excellent source of information aimed primarily at online community builders. Their recent focus has been a series of short videos that explain potentially complex and confusing web tools into plain English. The… Continue Reading