Steve Hermann ponders the future of BBC News Blogs “Should BBC correspondents writing for the News website write in blogs, or in conventional diaries/columns? Not the most burning issue in the world maybe but we’ve been pondering it nonetheless…” (tags:… Continue Reading
Extortion charges dropped as two take deal in MySpace case The pair had developed software that gave myspace users the ability to track visitors to their profiles based upon IP address. Many bloggers do it with statcounter, so I don’t… Continue Reading
Manchester Evening News talks about BBC Manchester Blog and My Blogs The article talks about our first blogging workshop, which was held at BBC Manchester last Thursday, as well as my various blogs. (tags: bbc bbcblogs bbcblog bbcmanchesterblog bbcmanchester manchester… Continue Reading
Pro Golfer sues business with IP range to trace author of potentially defamatory wikipedia entry Pro golfer Fuzzy Zoeller is suing to track down the author who posted what he considers a defamatory paragraph about him on the Internet reference… Continue Reading
Libel Tourism? Cameron Diaz successfully sues US website for libel in UK court The UK has some of the toughest libel laws – some would say skewed to far towards claimants – and now foreign parties are bringing their libel… Continue Reading
Good sources for UK internet statistics (tags: statistics uk newmedia) Citizen Journalists Compete with Pros to Make Paper’s Homepage ยท MarketingVOX (tags: denmark citizenjournalism citizensnappers usergeneratedcontent) ‘At first it seemed like career suicide’ – Adam Reuters Adam Reuters, the Reuters… Continue Reading
BBC Manchester Originally uploaded by robinhamman. On Thursday, I’m helping give a blogging workshop at BBC Manchester. We’re going to talk about the BBC Manchester Blog project which I’ve written about here before, introduce the BBC’s Editorial Guidelines, then help… Continue Reading
Islanders believe in American GI “John Frum” as their messiah Wowed by US tanks and hardware during WW2, Island villagers continue to believe that their messiah was responsible for delivering to them the munificence of the US military. (tags: weird… Continue Reading
Inventor of the Television Remote Control Dies (tags: tv television)
BBC News: Google Earth is being used to help people survive sectarian violence in Baghdad (tags: google googlemaps maps) Downing Street’s Website “Prat” Speaks Out A government minister has labelled the controversial online petitions on Downing Street’s website as an… Continue Reading