Archive for January, 2007
Tuesday, January 30th, 2007
Vista launches
Who’s the hairy geek about 2 minutes in on the BBC report, though? And welcome to anyone who heard me on PM on Radio 4 this evening - please note that comments are moderated on this blog, but I’ll get to them as soon as I get home from London!
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Tuesday, January 30th, 2007
Time for digital literacy
[Also available on the BBC News website]
A senior manager at lottery operator Camelot has discovered that adopting different online identities is not as straightforward as it might appear, and it seems to have cost her her job.
The contract to run the UK national lottery comes up for renewal in 2009, and Camelot is obviously very […]
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Monday, January 22nd, 2007
Learning from the locals
[As ever, you can read this on the BBC News website, and it was also picked up by Charles Johnson on lgf]
The students in my online journalism class at City University this year must be wondering whether they have made the right choice.
Getting a professional qualification in journalism, with its shorthand classes, endless lectures on […]
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Thursday, January 18th, 2007
Oxford Media Convention
Oxford Media Convention
Originally uploaded by BillT.
Still working hard…
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Thursday, January 18th, 2007
Oxford Media Convention
Oxford Media Convention
Originally uploaded by BillT.
In the session discussing news online, and The Guardian’s Jemima Kiss is working hard at the front of the room for Organ Grinder
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Thursday, January 18th, 2007
Oxford Media Convention
Ed Richards has just finished talking at the Oxford Media Convention and is taking some questions - including the obvious one from a Daily Telegraph journalist, which he will almost certainly kick into touch.
It was, as always with the patrician Mr Richards, a carefully judged, eloquently delivered and cleverly constructed speech, one which could be […]
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Wednesday, January 17th, 2007
The fragile network
[As ever, you can also read this on the BBC News website. (28/1/07 - it was also picked up by CircleID]
One of the more persistent founding myths around the internet is that it was designed to be able to withstand a nuclear war, built by the US military to ensure that even after the bombs […]
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Saturday, January 6th, 2007
A new you?
[As ever you can read this on the BBC News website]
A business user who forgot the password for their account on the corporate network would probably get a withering look from the IT department as they grovelled to have it reset, but it seems that young people who forget their MySpace logins are just as […]
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Saturday, January 6th, 2007
Digital Planet on net governance and Vista
This week’s DP is a discussion about Microsoft Vista which segues smoothly into consideration of net regulation and governance. Gareth and I were joined by Kieren McCarthy, Hossein Derakhshan and John Palfrey - yes, all men, and it’s an issue which we’re very aware with on the programme and hope to do more about this […]
