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Martin Belam CV - Articles, publications, presentations and education

Articles, publications and presentations

May 2008: "My Favourite Tipples", Free Pint newsletter
April 2008: "RSS Feeds: Managing the Mechanism", FUMSI
Nov 2007: A series of articles on the 'BBC Internet Blog' to celebrate the 10th anniversary of bbc.co.uk
2007-2008: "Does your website know its RSS from its elbow?", "News personalisation: Taking the 'My' road", "The Independent's web redesign review", Press Gazatte, UK
Apr 2006: A series of articles about redesigning the BBC homepage on the reboot:bbc.co.uk blog
Feb 2005: "BBC-TAXONOMIE" (in Dutch translation), Informatie Professional, The Netherlands
Jul 2004: "Search within a search", ei magazine, Volume 1 Issue 2, UK

I have given presentations about search engines, web strategy and widgets at a wide range of conferences including the 2008 IA Summit in Miami, IBERSID in Zaragoza, IP Lezing in Amsterdam and the Infonortics Search Engine Meeting in The Hague.

A full list of my online articles can be found at http://www.currybet.net/articles. My blog at www.currybet.net is about UXD, IA & usability, specifically focused on search engines, newspaper, media and music websites. In October 2007 it was listed in Blogstorm's Top 100 UK Blogs, and in recent months it has been referenced by The Independent, Guardian, Telegraph and Times newspapers.

Education

1994: BA (Hons) 2:1 History - Leeds University
1990: 4 A-Levels (English, History, Religious Studies, General Studies) - Forest School, London
1988: 1 AO-Level (Advanced Mathematics) - Forest School, London
1988: 11 GCSEs (English Language, English Literature, History, Geography, Computer Science, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Latin, Religious Studies, Music) - Forest School, London
1987: 2 O-Levels (Mathematics, French) - Forest School, London
1986: 1 City & Guilds Certificate (Computer Literacy) - Forest School, London

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Talks & presentations

"Journalism in the digital age"
I'll be appearing on a panel with Sarah Hartley and Iain Hepburn at the Edinburgh International Science Festival on Sunday April 11th. More details...

Posts of the moment

Day of the Triffids
If everyone suddenly went blind, how long would the Internet survive, and could you still publish news on it?

With professionals of this quality, who needs 'citizen journalist' enemies?
It is hard to argue that ethics and quality set the 'professional journalist' apart from the amateur blogger, if the 'professional' keeps publishing articles so wrong that they have to be deleted.