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Woman's Own gets a print 'blog'
You'll do almost anything to keep yourself amused in an airport whilst waiting for a flight. On Monday in Heathrow's godforsaken Terminal 2, that included flicking through a copy of "Woman's Own". Well, a man has to get his fill of celebrity gossip, female health problems and lead interviewee Piers Morgan. At the back of the mag was the "Woman's Own" 'interactive' section, called 'Chat Room - Your life, your opinions, your page'. I was more interested in this than...

Read the full post - Published March 19, 2008 in Blogging, Media, Voting, Web

Vote Super Furry Animals!
I noticed last week that my favourite Welsh band, Super Furry Animals, were adding an interactive element into their North American tour. They are visiting the US to promote their most recent album, 'Hey Venus!', and are allowing people to vote for the songs they most want to hear included in the set-list. It reminded me of a couple of earlier attempts at doing this kind of interactive set-list. In 1986 Elvis Costello went out on tour with the 'Spectacular...

Read the full post - Published February 1, 2008 in Music, Voting, Widgets

I'm not convinced online voting shows Rhydian was robbed on X-Factor
"In years to come when someone asks the question Where were you at 10:35 on 15th December 2007? most people will instantly know." Well, I'm not entirely sure about that, but there has certainly been a furore over the result of the X-Factor voting at the weekend. I always loved these spats - I remember well disgruntled Fame Academy and Strictly Come Dancing fans having it out with each other on the BBC's Points Of View message board with the...

Read the full post - Published December 17, 2007 in Blogging, Daily Mail, Television, Voting

Voting for your American Idol in Greece
One of the causes of the recent ITV premium phone line vote scandals was the re-showing of programmes on their +1 chaanel without giving the viewer information that the competition had closed. There doesn't seem to be any similar pressure over here in Greece. At the moment, on Sunday nights the ΣΚΑΙ channel is showing "American Idol". After each contestant sings, Greek television shows the presenter giving viewers the instructions on how to vote. Not only doesn't Greek TV indicate...

Read the full post - Published December 10, 2007 in Greece, Media, Music, Voting

The Blue Peter cat flap - when online voting goes bad
A couple of people have expressed surprise to me that I have not yet commented on the great Blue Peter online voting catflap (I refuse to use the term 'Socksgate') since the BBC and Voting are two of the regular topics on this site. Full disclosure up front by the way - I used to be a Senior Development Producer in the BBC's New Media department (as was), was responsible for voting applications, and I'm currently doing some work as...

Read the full post - Published September 29, 2007 in BBC, Voting

The London freesheets and the web - Part 3: Voting
Last week I started looking at how London's free newspapers incorporate online and user-generated content into their printed editions. So far I've looked at music reviews, and at films and celebrity gossip. In this post I want to look at how the papers handle something I've worked on a lot online - voting. Voting Of the three London freesheets, it is The London Paper that seems to have gone into reflecting their reader's views via voting in a big way....

Read the full post - Published September 24, 2007 in Newspapers, Voting

"Show must go on" culture at the BBC more to blame for errors than a calculating culture of deceit
In all my time working at the BBC there was never anything as high-pressured, stressful, or as worrying as having an application with a 'TX critical' deadline - meaning that it had to go live and work at the appointed moment that it was mentioned in the broadcast stream. Software updates could be put back, new content publishing could be delayed, whole website launches could be shelved, as long as it wasn't going to be mentioned on TV or Radio....

Read the full post - Published July 19, 2007 in BBC, Radio, Television, Voting

National Television Awards vote seems wide open to multiple vote fraud
Like a good Doctor Who fan I was gently shepherded along by the Outpost Gallifrey site RSS feed this week to go and cast my vote for Freema, David and the series in the National Television Awards 2007 vote. It seems slightly early in the year to be handing out gongs, but there you go. There were a couple of things that struck me about the voting process itself - particularly with the announcement this week that the BBC has...

Read the full post - Published July 12, 2007 in Doctor Who, Media, Television, Usability, Voting, Web

Joseph and the BBC's amazing technicolor nightmare vote
I see that the BBC has got itself into a bit of a pickle over the online voting for the school choir competition that accompanies the current 'talent' search programme "Any Dream Will Do". Often when these kind of issues occurred with an online vote it would happen because the television or radio production team had consulted with the new media department about their plans too late in the day. After all, if you are not au fait with the...

Read the full post - Published May 27, 2007 in BBC, Voting

The White Horse bridge comes back to haunt me in Salzburg
It is funny how things can come back to haunt you - in the way the F.A. are currently being haunted by their decision to employ Steve McClaren for the England job. With the much delayed opening of the new Wembley stadium taking place last weekend, it was the White Horse bridge that came back to haunt me. A couple of years back I worked on the vote, hosted by the BBC's Radio Five Live station, to determine the...

Read the full post - Published March 30, 2007 in BBC, Football, Newspapers, The Guardian, Voting

The Sun's sexiest barmaid vote goes a bit tits up

Published February 22, 2007 in Media, The Sun, Usability, Voting

More politics over the BBC's political votes

Published January 12, 2007 in BBC, Voting

Today and the Hunting ban repeal vote

Published January 9, 2007 in BBC, Politics, Radio, Voting

Did the BBC pull, then re-instate, a poll about holocaust denial?

Published September 27, 2006 in BBC, Voting

New media pensioner and president in the old media

Published August 16, 2006 in Media, Voting, Web, YouTube

GIYUS.org's Megaphone Desktop Tool - the web turns their 'malware' against them

Published August 10, 2006 in BBC, Media, Politics, Voting, Web

Vote for your 50 favourite number one albums

Published July 27, 2006 in Music, Voting

Vote for your favourite John Lennon track using our new system

Published December 6, 2005 in BBC, Radio, Voting

The Evening Standard's Vanishing Booze Vote

Published November 24, 2005 in Evening Standard, Media, Voting

Five Live's Greatest Team of All Time vote

Published November 24, 2005 in BBC, Voting

Golden TV Moments vote - Carol Thatcher need not apply

Published November 23, 2005 in BBC, Voting

Voting frenzy on bbc.co.uk

Published November 8, 2005 in BBC, Voting

Using WAP To Collect Phone Votes

Published September 18, 2005 in BBC, Voting

Government Drops E-Voting Plans: U-Turn or Sensible Policy Change?

Published September 7, 2005 in Media, Politics, Voting

Greatest Painting Result In Print

Published September 7, 2005 in BBC, Media, Newspapers, Radio, Voting

Turner Prize - The Greatest Painting In Britain Vote Result

Published September 5, 2005 in BBC, Radio, Voting

Last Chance To Vote For Britain's Greatest Painting

Published September 4, 2005 in BBC, Radio, Voting

Greatest Painting Vote Update

Published August 24, 2005 in BBC, Radio, Voting

The Today Programme's Greatest Painting In Britain Vote

Published August 16, 2005 in BBC, Radio, Voting

He Thinks Therefore Michael Gove Is Not Voting Marx

Published June 23, 2005 in BBC, Media, Radio, Voting

Now In Our Time shows the BBC is "ignorant as well as biased"

Published June 22, 2005 in BBC, Evening Standard, Radio, Voting

Cardiff Singer of the World Audience Vote

Published June 17, 2005 in BBC, Music, Radio, Voting

If You Want To Outvote Marx....

Published June 10, 2005 in BBC, Radio, Voting

In Our Time Greatest Philosophers Vote in The Guardian

Published June 10, 2005 in BBC, Media, Newspapers, Radio, Voting

In Our Time Greatest Philosopher Vote

Published June 1, 2005 in BBC, Media, Newspapers, Radio, The Guardian, Voting

The White Horse Bridge at Wembley

Published May 25, 2005 in BBC, Football, Voting

Vote to name the new Wembley footbridge on BBC.co.uk

Published May 19, 2005 in BBC, Football, Radio, Voting

Baxter vs Moore - Costing you money in Parliament

Published March 6, 2005 in Football, Politics, Voting

More music votes on bbc.co.uk

Published January 5, 2005 in BBC, Music, Radio, Voting

Bob Geldof is the Listener's Lord

Published January 4, 2005 in BBC, Radio, Voting

Today's Listener's Lord

Published December 29, 2004 in BBC, Radio, Voting

Nominate your Listener's Lord

Published December 23, 2004 in BBC, Radio, Voting

Voting prejudice

Published December 9, 2004 in BBC, Radio, Voting

Top 100 of 2004 Vote on the BBC Asian Network

Published December 5, 2004 in BBC, Voting

Last chance to vote in Radio Five Live's Sporting Year

Published December 2, 2004 in BBC, Radio, Voting

BBC Radio Five Live's Sporting Year Vote

Published November 22, 2004 in BBC, Radio, Voting

EastEnders vote in The Sun

Published September 17, 2004 in BBC, The Sun, Voting

Not The Big Read, but two smaller reads

Published September 15, 2004 in BBC, Voting

Vote for your favourite EastEnders characters

Published August 26, 2004 in BBC, Voting

The reporting of Internet polls during elections

Published June 10, 2004 in BBC, Evening Standard, Politics, Voting, Web