The midwestern mafia talk about “stuff”
Tuesday, 5 December 2006, 01:45
This evening I went to a Journalism.co.uk event at Imperial College featuring Clyde Bentley, who founded MyMissourian.com at the University of Missouri, along with Guardian blogs editor Kevin Anderson and Robin Hamman of the BBC blogs project.
This “midwestern mafia”, as Kevin described the American-accented panel, talked about who Robin called “stuff” to avoid the dread phrases “UGC” and “citizen journalism”. And it was great stuff as you would expect from that panel.
Robin explained the BBC Manchester Blog Project, which is encouraging bloggers to use non-BBC platforms like Blogger and Flickr but to use the tag “bbcmanchesterblog” to draw alert the BBC to new material. Blogging gives journalists “contact, context and content”, he said.
Kevin described the Guardian’s new Travel site as the first itiration of “R2″, the relaunch which will bring interactivity from the margins to the centre of the Guardian’s online operations.
Blogging at 1:45am on a school night is not good, so more details will follow tomorrow.
I’ve just come home from White City where I was a guest on BBC Five Live’s Pods & Blogs with Chris Vallance and Rhod Sharp. If you’re still up at the unsocial hour of 2am, you can listen to me provide several shameless plugs for this blog. (listen online)
Entry Filed under: BBC, Blogs, Miscellanea, Radio, bbcmanchesterblog
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1. cybersoc.com&hellip | 14 March 2007 at 1705
European Broadcasting Union in Geneva, Switzerland on the 29th and 30th of March. We’ll be talking about the BBC Manchester Blog project which is a slightly out of the ordinary take on mainstream media’s engagement with the stuff formerly known as user generated content. The conference blog says: “The Manchester blog project, which is run by Richard Fair and Robin Hamman, turns the conventional BBC way of doing things on its head. Instead of using sub-editors to review and approve UGC, Richard
2. cybersoc.com&hellip | 14 March 2007 at 0837
European Broadcasting Union in Geneva, Switzerland on the 29th and 30th of March. We’ll be talking about the BBC Manchester Blog project which is a slightly out of the ordinary take on mainstream media’s engagement with the stuff formerly known as user generated content. The conference blog says: “The Manchester blog project, which is run by Richard Fair and Robin Hamman, turns the conventional BBC way of doing things on its head. Instead of using sub-editors to review and approve UGC, Richard
3. Robin Hamman | 5 December 2006 at 1108
Glad you liked the talk and it’s great to hear that the Press Gazette is going to re-emerge and that you’ll still be onboard.
I wonder how long a gap there will be between your “shameless plugs” and an appearance here from one of our regulars, Roberto from Miami.
Roberto, meet Martin…
4. Martin Stabe » Midw&hellip | 6 December 2006 at 1407
[...] Journalism.co.uk has posted three YouTube videos of the speakers at their Reader’ Revolution event on Monday evening. [...]
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