Socialising news
Kevin Rose was in town for last week’s FOWA event. He was at the BBC the other day too, although he singularly failed to excite an otherwise eager audience of editors and technologists from around the Corporation. Anyway, his presentation at FOWA was a bit more interesting. His principle message was that Digg’s mission is [...]
Could the BBC do this?
NPR’s response to the credit crunch is a terrific new daily podcast from the station’s crack financial team. I don’t mean ‘could the BBC do something of this quality?’. I don’t doubt that. I’m just wondering if the regulatory and editorial regime would permit something so spontaneous and indigenous to the web to emerge in [...]
Kevin Rose came to visit
Digg founder Kevin Rose is in town and the people at FutureNow (which is part of the BBC’s training and development function) invited him in to speak to people from around the organisation. Interesting presentation but, seriously, not that interesting. In fact, to be honest, I found it puzzling to note how little has changed [...]
Quick post about confidentiality
Obvious, I suppose, but as soon as I got my BBC staff pass I started to think differently about what I say here on the blog about the BBC. I’m not worried about upsetting the management or about getting the sack (I don’t really work here – I’m a freelancer) but I am seriously worried [...]
My first week as blogger in residence…
I think this is my fourth full day at the BBC. I’ve got a Staff Pass (temporary) and I’m just getting used to the idea that I’m allowed in the building at all. Here are my notes from a few interesting presentations and meetings I attended last week:
Linked Open Music. First, Matthew Shorter and Tom [...]
Diane Hamer: BBC intellectual property lawyer
And we’re off. For my second meeting Nick took me to meet Diane Hamer, a top BBC copyright lawyer (her business card says ‘Trade Mark Lawyer’ but she’s more general than that). We chatted about the challenges for intellectual property in the digital era and for the BBC in particular (and Nick bought me a [...]
