BREAKING NEWS…
We have BBC News 24 on in our office all day. Here’s a reminder of how rolling news ought to be. Technorati Tags: The+Day+Today, Chris+Morris, rolling+news
View ArticleDaddy… what’s TV?
Thought provoking tweet from Mike Butcher who’s at the Edinburgh TV Un-Festival today: “UnTVFest live podcast dwelled overly on TV as shared experienced. My view: the Live Social Web is the new TV....
View ArticleThe brain’s the best plug-in ever for getting rid of unwanted advertising!
Nice post by Sigurd over at thingumy who reinforces almost scientifically (well, he used a computer) something I’ve long harped on about: our innate ability to block unwanted, intrusive advertising. So...
View ArticleStudy examines political internet campaigning in the UK and US
Apologies for the dearth of new posts around these parts – loads of great stuff happening but work too busy to let me check my feeds regularly! But I thought I’d definitely flag up a working paper by...
View ArticleDigital 10p mixed-bag: Today’s Media Guardian, TV news crisis, Advertising...
With work being utterly turmoultous at the moment I don’t have time to even read my RSS feeds, let alone pick up a newspaper. One result of this is I feel totally dis-connected with what’s happening in...
View ArticleGoldsmiths: Futures of News?
I’m back from Goldsmith University’s inaugural symposium for it’s major research project: The Futures of News, funded by the Leverhulme Trust. I’ll try to give the day a full write-up soon, but it’s...
View ArticleGoldsmiths University: the Futures of News write-up
As promised, here are some notes from the Futures of the News conference at Goldsmiths University last Saturday. For my initial reaction, see my previous post. The morning session was opened by Martin...
View ArticleWhat is television for? asks Media Guardian. For being useful, Iannucci answers.
In an oddly, but perfectly timed, front-page splash, Media Guardian asks some top television people what television should be for in the current world of converged media. One of the answerees (made...
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Throwing your license-fee into a hole….
I walked past the giant hole in the ground today that is/will be the BBC’s new Broadcasting House at the top of Regent Street. I think it’s fair to say that’s one of the most immpressive holes I have...
View ArticleA YouTube? On the Interweb?
Once more parliament is reeling from the power of the internet, the BBC reports. Children’s Secretary, Ed Balls, is alleged to have uttered the rather scornful "So what" to David Cameron’s budget...
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