I know, I know I said I had closed down the blog (apart from the results of the video survey. Which are still coming by the way) but I though the blog was the best place to plant a flag for this.
Myself and long term partner in crime Paul Egglestone (@digitaldocs) had a chat with [...]

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Last in my (just invented) Day’o’screengrabs. Those of you using wordpress may have seen, via the dashboard, that Top Gear (the show and magazine) are using wordpress for their web presence. Cue a lot of comments from Toyota driving reps.
From the screengrab above you can see that they haven’t quite got the excerpts sorted yet [...]

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Isn’t twitter great (when it’s working). Mark Comerford shared a link to a report on an EU report – no, no, keep reading, honest it’s good (and not about the Irish referendum.)
The report goes under the title of DRAFT REPORT on concentration and pluralism in the media in the European Union (PDF link) that’s (2007/2253(INI)) [...]

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Interesting stuff from Bob Eggington,  one of the founding fathers of BBC Online, in todays Guardian
BBC Online needs a new content strategy. If there is an existing content strategy, it is impossible to discern it. The current offering is a massive, rambling construction – with hundreds of separate sites of hugely varying quality. The kindest [...]

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Robin and Alf ( thanks guys) posted on the BBC’s Jeremy Paxman “arrogance or a joke that misfired?” about submitting videos to the Newsnight website.
You could say something about an old school attitudes misplaced confidence in the security of their medium but sometimes a joke is a joke.  that misfired is probably a better explanation.
I [...]

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Video whirlwind David Dunkley Gyimah has been out and about with his camera and got a chat with the BBC’s Peter Horrocks.
Uniquely, Horrocks was also fielding video questions from a number of super bloggers, academics and journalists from around the world enveloping multimedia journalism in what’s referred to as a Vlog Butterfly.
That’s right. He spiced [...]

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BBC radio 4 look at the impact of blogging on US journalism in New kids on the blog (Wednesday 19 December 2007 11:00-11:30)
Matt Frei looks at how the digital revolution is changing the face of American media.
American journalism is changing faster than ever before and the mass audiences of the nightly network news are in [...]

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Yes, it’s hoaky headline Monday!
Like Doug Fisher, I missed this piece on BBC Newsnight about Channel 5 banning the noddy. It’s a nice piece (a little like a recent episode of Screenwipe, but well put together.) But why are 5 doing it?

(cut to interview) Because they are just cheats. It’s a small step towards [...]

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