Saturday, December 26th, 2009
Nearing the end of 2009
It’s been a hectic year, and I’m currently embedded in the BBC Archive Development team until at least April, though I’ll be continuing my work with Digital Planet, Focus Magazine and the Billboard, as well as other gigs that come up during 2010.
In the meantime, here are two of my stories that I didn’t get [...]
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Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
Turn and Face the Strain
I left my job as head of The Guardian’s New Media Lab in 1996 to work as a freelance writer and consultant, and also to look after my two young children. After a few years of freelance life I started to describe myself as ‘unemployable’, and to tell anyone who would listen that not only [...]
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Thursday, June 25th, 2009
Whose Service?
[As ever, you can read this on the BBC News website]
Much of the debate that followed last week’s publication of the Digital Britain report has focused on the proposal to take some of the income from the TV Licence and make it available to fund universal broadband access, with a suggestion that once this has [...]
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Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
Digital Britain: Engaging with the Internet
I got home at 1500, checked out the Digital Britain website, then fired up the Parliament channel at 1530 to see new Culture Secretary Ben Bradshaw present the Digital Britain White Paper (according to BERR) or Final Report (according to DCMS). And then I tweeted while I read, before sitting down to write this, which [...]
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Wednesday, February 18th, 2009
[As ever, you can read this on the BBC News website too]
When I heard that full episodes of The Prisoner TV series were available online I immediately headed over to the AMC website to wallow in nostalgic enjoyment and remind myself just how cool Patrick McGoohan was as he stumbled around Portmeirion trying to avoid [...]
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Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
I saw this…
Here’s what I’ve tagged on del.icio.us on %date%:
Cuba supports unrestricted Internet, but US embargo makes it impossible, CB – Cuba needs our support
TechCrunch UK » Blog Archive » BBC?s Sound Index is good, but we won?t get the data – Free our data campaigner Mike Butcher keeps on pushing
Speech to Google Zeitgeist Conference – [...]
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Sunday, December 9th, 2007
Who Pays the Paper?
[As ever, you can read this on the BBC News website]
If you live outside the United Kingdom then the BBC website at bbc.com has a surprise for you, in the form of some prominent advertisements.
While the license-fee supported sites provided to the UK population remain free of ads, the BBC has started treating the web [...]
