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How major publishers are using social media to drive traffic - Part 1
How major publishers are using social media to drive traffic
An article based on my presentation at May's International Social Media Summit.
London IA Mini Conference review - Part 1
On Monday night The Guardian hosted the first London IA Mini Conference, and yesterday I published an extended version of my presentation on the night: "Introducing Information Architecture at The Guardian" Photo by Nizam Here is the first part of my notes from the rest of the evening after I'd spoken. "Agile UX" - Cennydd Bowles Cennydd was ambitiously trying to pull off what looked like a 45 minute presentation in 10 minutes, and managed it impressively. He was looking...
"Introducing Information Architecture at The Guardian"
"Introducing Information Architecture at The Guardian"
My presentation at the recent London IA Mini Conference explains my role as Information Architect at guardian.co.uk
How the Ian Tomlinson G20 video spread The Guardian brand across the media
It isn't in the too dim and distant past that if you wanted to get some newsworthy video footage published in the UK, you only had a choice of taking it to the BBC, ITN, or Sky. Now the majority of serious newspaper websites have the ability to embed video on the web, and some, like The Guardian, Telegraph and The Sun have made multimedia studios an essential part of their newsroom set-up. Last week one of the biggest news...
Press silence on Alfie Patten DNA test result broken by Google News
Yesterday, The Mirror was reporting a further development in the story of the 13 year old boy named as a father. The initial coverage of this story was a significant factor in boosting The Sun from #5 to #1 in the UK newspaper online charts. Today, The Mirror has pulled the story from their site. It is an interesting test case of whether legal deletions should also cover SEO-orientated keyword stuffed URLs. They might have pulled the story, but I...
London's abandoned Underground Stations on Google Street View
Abandoned Tube Stations on Street View
Peek at the disused bits of London's Underground that you can see overground using Google Street View
Currybet's law - 5 reasons why Doctor Who always crops up in BBC meetings
Currybet's Law
The more BBC staff you put in a meeting room - the more inevitable it becomes that one of them will mention Doctor Who.
Is 'internet news being free at the point of delivery' even still negotiable?
After Cale Cowan's withering response to the last time I joined in a trans-Atlantic debate about how newspapers can survive and thrive in a new media world, I suspect I may qualify as one of the "self-serving bloggers" mentioned in a David Lazarus piece in the LA Times last week. David was making the suggestion that newspapers should group together and offer bundled-up electronic subscriptions. In another variation on the iTunes-for-news theme he argues that "iTunes proves newspapers can and...
'Delivering Digital Britain' still too much about 'delivery'
I was lucky enough to get a seat yesterday morning when Lord Carter presented the next steps for his Digital Britain report at NESTA. The event was heavily over-subscribed and the busiest I've seen at NESTA HQ. The release of the report was heavily criticised in many quarters, some of which was captured by a move to put it into a more malleable format than the PDF document that was initially published. I wondered whether Lord Carter would address any...
What would you put in corporate Twitter usage guidelines?
What would you put in corporate Twitter usage guidelines?
It is surely only a matter of time before companies start drawing them up. Here are my five initial suggestions - what needs to be added?
How accurate was Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" about the future?
Published February 18, 2009 in Nostalgia, Popular, Post of the moment - 8 comments so far 
The BBC's "Points Of View" online culture clash - Part 1
Published February 16, 2009 in Articles, BBC, Blogging, Media, Popular, The Guardian, Web - 8 comments so far
Reports of 'the death of the sub-editor' may not be exaggerated
Published February 13, 2009 in Popular - 2 comments so far
Why the PCC is broken - a case study in trying to complain
Published February 11, 2009 in Daily Mail, Media, Newspapers, Popular, Post of the moment - 16 comments so far
Let's have a PCC for the 21st century
Published February 10, 2009 in Media, Newspapers, Popular, Post of the moment - 3 comments so far
Ban this sick Nazi paedo filth!
Published January 28, 2009 in Media, Popular, The Sun - No comments yet
The BBC colossus stumbles again over DEC appeal
Published January 26, 2009 in BBC, Politics, Popular, Post of the moment - 4 comments so far
"The Tottenham Outrage" centenary
Published January 19, 2009 in London, Nostalgia, Popular, Walthamstow - 1 comment so far
Police try to stop Walthamstow blogger taking pictures of a bus crash
Published January 15, 2009 in Blogging, London, Media, Popular, Transport, Walthamstow - 3 comments so far
6 other things newspapers could stop doing for a day to prove their "unique" value...
Published January 14, 2009 in Media, Newspapers, Popular - 5 comments so far
The BBC stole my money, and now I'm battling to get a TV Licence refund
Published December 26, 2008 in BBC, Popular - 11 comments so far
Mumbai terrorist attacks show that search engines still can't get breaking news right
Published November 26, 2008 in Google, Microsoft, Popular, Search, Yahoo - 4 comments so far
Protecting the identity of Baby P's killers: The courts vs the people vs the Internet
Published November 17, 2008 in Children and Teenagers, Media, Newspapers, Popular, Web - 25 comments so far
Published November 16, 2008 in Events, Popular, The Guardian, Web - No comments yet
The BBC News linking policy is simply clumsy, not 'greedy'
Published November 2, 2008 in BBC, Popular, Web - 13 comments so far
BBC fails the online Brand damage limitation test
Published October 29, 2008 in BBC, Daily Mail, Popular, Radio - 8 comments so far
"The Former Scottish Constituency of Northumbria"
Published October 24, 2008 in Greece, Politics, Popular - 17 comments so far
Social media and www.bbc.co.uk
Published October 14, 2008 in BBC, Popular, Social media - 2 comments so far
Take-away facts and quotes from the 2008 Euro IA Summit in Amsterdam - Part 1
Published September 30, 2008 in Articles, IA Summit, Popular - No comments yet
Measuring UK newspaper success with social media
Published September 15, 2008 in Articles, Newspapers, Popular, Social media - 4 comments so far
More on the Daily Mail and my comments about their 'suicidal five year olds' article
Published September 5, 2008 in Blogging, Children and Teenagers, Daily Mail, Popular, Web - 1 comment so far
A brief history of Olympic dissent: London 2012
Published August 24, 2008 in London Olympics, Olympics, Politics, Popular - 8 comments so far
A brief history of Olympic dissent: Athens 1896
Published August 1, 2008 in Articles, Cyprus, Greece, Olympics, Politics, Popular, Turkey - 4 comments so far
A lifetime of lost playlists: Part 12 - Pretending to see the future
Published July 30, 2008 in Music, Popular - 3 comments so far
Published July 26, 2008 in BBC, Popular, Web - 2 comments so far
A lifetime of lost playlists: Part 1 - Pump up the volume
Published July 10, 2008 in Articles, Music, Popular - 3 comments so far
"People, Places, Subjects" - BBC Topic and Guardian keyword pages: Part 1
Published July 4, 2008 in Articles, BBC, Popular, The Guardian, Web - 3 comments so far
Being an extra on John Fogerty's Live at the Albert Hall DVD
Published June 30, 2008 in Music, Popular - 22 comments so far
Last night's TechCrunch / BBC debate on a 'Common Platform'
Published June 26, 2008 in BBC, Popular - 2 comments so far
"You're wired!" - 7 things The Apprentice can teach you about new media projects
Published June 20, 2008 in Articles, Popular, Television - 5 comments so far
There is the BBC's new media overspend...and then there is Google
Published June 1, 2008 in BBC, Daily Telegraph, Google, Newspapers, Popular, The Guardian, Web - 4 comments so far
"Can you trust a media blogger?"
Published May 20, 2008 in Blogging, Media, Newspapers, Popular - 9 comments so far
60% of Editors Blog comments hate the BBC News redesign
Published April 2, 2008 in BBC, Popular - 30 comments so far
Google hijacks traffic from newspaper site search
Published March 31, 2008 in Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, Google, Newspapers, Popular, The Guardian, The Sun, The Times - 8 comments so far
Published March 2, 2008 in DRM, Doctor Who, Popular - 1 comment so far
The Buffy guide to the Internet - 1997 style
Published February 24, 2008 in Nostalgia, Popular, Television, Web - 8 comments so far
10 tips for integrating your del.icio.us links into your blog
Published February 5, 2008 in Blogging, Popular - 9 comments so far
Blogging at the BBC: Part 1 - My introduction to blogging
Published December 11, 2007 in Articles, BBC, Blogging, Popular - 3 comments so far
ACAP - flawed and broken from the start?
Published December 2, 2007 in Newspapers, Popular, Search, Web - 4 comments so far
Busting the BBC's 600 Linux users myth
Published November 2, 2007 in BBC, Linux, Popular, iPlayer - 25 comments so far
"The Tardis and Multiplatform" - Julie Gardner talks about Doctor Who's multi-media incarnations
Published September 28, 2007 in BBC, Doctor Who, Popular, Web - 1 comment so far
The meerkat photograph hoax review - which UK newspapers admitted online to being duped?
Published September 12, 2007 in Newspapers, Popular - 5 comments so far
Reckless Records RIP - Part 1: An End Has A Start
Published August 13, 2007 in Articles, Music, Popular - No comments yet
BBC iPlayer launch: The first 14 days
Published July 17, 2007 in BBC, DRM, Linux, Popular, iPlayer - 21 comments so far
Why my Doctor Who blog failed: Part 1 - The Greatest Show In The Galaxy
Published July 2, 2007 in Articles, Doctor Who, Popular - 6 comments so far
Free the BBC from the same old tired DRM debate
Published June 13, 2007 in BBC, DRM, Linux, Media, Microsoft, Popular, Radio, Television, Web, iPlayer - 23 comments so far
Madeleine McCann and Alex Meschisvili - a culture contrast
Published May 28, 2007 in Children and Teenagers, Greece, Media, Popular - 5 comments so far
Newspapers 2.0: How Web 2.0 are British newspaper web sites?
Published May 8, 2007 in Articles, Media, Newspapers, Popular, Web - 3 comments so far
It was twenty years ago today...The Beatles CD reissues from 1987
Published April 17, 2007 in Music, Popular - 18 comments so far
The ten things most likely to be on The Daily Express front page
Published April 3, 2007 in Daily Express, Media, Newspapers, Popular - 15 comments so far
My 'biased' view of the Biased BBC blog
Published March 14, 2007 in Articles, BBC, Popular - 9 comments so far
Using Bloglines to snoop on people's private Gmail
Published October 1, 2006 in Google, Popular, Web - 6 comments so far
The software used to access the BBC homepage
Published October 22, 2005 in Apple, Articles, BBC, Linux, Microsoft, Popular - No comments yet
Haunted Walthamstow and Chingford
Published September 8, 2005 in Ghost Walks, Popular, Walthamstow - 13 comments so far
Published July 11, 2005 in Ghost Walks, Popular, Travelogue - 21 comments so far
A day in the life of BBCi Search - part 1
Published March 27, 2003 in Articles, BBC, Popular, Search - 2 comments so far
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