The rumours are true: I’m leaving the BBC…
When I joined the organisation, back in 2000, I didn’t think I would be at the BBC for more than one or two years. But on 8th May 2006 I will have been at the BBC for 6 years. And it’s been six...
View ArticleBBC News adds live stats (+ XML)
The BBC News Website has added a number of “Live Stats” features to their site. And I’ve been able to derive the urls for all the XML files powering it – creating some amazing mash-up potential! First...
View ArticleNeville on Astroturfing, Me on Project Astroturfing (Mk II)
Neville Hobson (of the excellent For Immediate Release podcast) has a nice piece on his blog about Astroturfing. Neville quotes from Wikipedia’s definition: …astroturfing describes formal public...
View ArticleBackstage.bbc.co.uk wins Innovation Award
I attended the NewStatesman New Media Awards 2006, last night. I’m pleased to say that backstage.bbc.co.uk came away with the prize in the Innovation category. Despite not working at the BBC anymore, I...
View ArticleI had a change of heart…
So look, it’s the morning after the night before and I’ve decided to take down the links to the JSON and RSS feeds. In general don’t feel it ‘wrong’ for someone to link to them directly, after all they...
View ArticleWhy I have an ‘extreme’ alter-ego
Much of what Tara wrote in her recent post ‘Missing the point’ resonates with me too. A couple of months back, someone asked me why I’m such an extremist. Surely, everything traditional marketing can’t...
View ArticleIan Forrester is the new man @ backstage.bbc.co.uk
I would like to be the first on the blogosphere to congratulate Ian Forrester on successfully becoming the new Senior Producer of backstage.bbc.co.uk (which is the new title for my old job). I left the...
View ArticleBackstage hosts round-table debate on DRM to kick off it’s first podcast
(disclosure: I was part of the team who launched backstage.bbc.co.uk, although I no longer work at the BBC. Many of the people around the table are friends and ex-colleagues) So I just finished...
View ArticleChannel 4 launches tiny widget/mashup competition
Given that I helped establish (probably) the first developer mash-up competition run by a media organization and also my recent foray into the world of widgets, I was particularly interested to read...
View Article‘Hacking the BBC’, a BBC Backstage Retrospective
Back in October 2010 the BBC announced that BBC Backstage - the developer platform and open data project I had created with Tom Loosemore and James Boardwell back in 2004 - would be closing at the end...
View ArticleThe rumours are true: I’m leaving the BBC…
When I joined the organisation, back in 2000, I didn’t think I would be at the BBC for more than one or two years. But on 8th May 2006 I will have been at the BBC for 6 years. And it’s been six...
View ArticleBBC News adds live stats (+ XML)
The BBC News Website has added a number of “Live Stats” features to their site. And I’ve been able to derive the urls for all the XML files powering it – creating some amazing mash-up potential! First...
View ArticleNeville on Astroturfing, Me on Project Astroturfing (Mk II)
Neville Hobson (of the excellent For Immediate Release podcast) has a nice piece on his blog about Astroturfing. Neville quotes from Wikipedia’s definition: …astroturfing describes formal public...
View ArticleBackstage.bbc.co.uk wins Innovation Award
I attended the NewStatesman New Media Awards 2006, last night. I’m pleased to say that backstage.bbc.co.uk came away with the prize in the Innovation category. Despite not working at the BBC anymore, I...
View ArticleI had a change of heart…
So look, it’s the morning after the night before and I’ve decided to take down the links to the JSON and RSS feeds. In general don’t feel it ‘wrong’ for someone to link to them directly, after all they...
View ArticleWhy I have an ‘extreme’ alter-ego
Much of what Tara wrote in her recent post ‘Missing the point’ resonates with me too. A couple of months back, someone asked me why I’m such an extremist. Surely, everything traditional marketing can’t...
View ArticleIan Forrester is the new man @ backstage.bbc.co.uk
I would like to be the first on the blogosphere to congratulate Ian Forrester on successfully becoming the new Senior Producer of backstage.bbc.co.uk (which is the new title for my old job). I left the...
View ArticleBackstage hosts round-table debate on DRM to kick off it’s first podcast
(disclosure: I was part of the team who launched backstage.bbc.co.uk, although I no longer work at the BBC. Many of the people around the table are friends and ex-colleagues) So I just finished...
View ArticleChannel 4 launches tiny widget/mashup competition
Given that I helped establish (probably) the first developer mash-up competition run by a media organization and also my recent foray into the world of widgets, I was particularly interested to read...
View Article‘Hacking the BBC’, a BBC Backstage Retrospective
Back in October 2010 the BBC announced that BBC Backstage – the developer platform and open data project I had created with Tom Loosemore and James Boardwell back in 2004 – would be closing at the end...
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