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
Over the years I reckon I've tried hundreds of social networking sites, blogging and micro-blogging tools, online participatory spaces, and content sharing services. In most instances I register, set up a profile, have a look around, and abandon all in… 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
Much has been made of twitter as a tool for finding eyewitness accounts and tracking discussion of breaking news and yesterday's airplane crash in the Hudson River was just one of a growing number of instances – along with earthquakes,… Continue Reading
Last December, in a guest post I wrote over on the Telegraph's Technology Blog, I gave some of my own predictions of social media trends I think we'll see in 2009. Along a similar line, Trendspotting has shared an interesting… Continue Reading
Tomorrow will be the second of the four lecture and workshop sessions I'm scheduled to deliver on the City University MA in International Journalism course during the 2008/9 academic year. I've given plenty of one off lectures at universities in… 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
Today was my first day teaching on the MA International Journalism programme at City University London. In preparation, I’ve been asking my twitter and facebook followers to help me come up with an outline for the lecture and received an… Continue Reading
I spent most of the morning on BBC radio. It all started yesterday, when I saw a tweet by Rory Cellan-Jones, alerting me to a blog post he was writing in response to a Wired article proclaiming blogging is dead.… Continue Reading