Category Archives: UK AOP

@AOP: From chatroom to newsroom

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Mike Butcher of Techcrunch UK is moderating a panel on interactivity and user-generated content and how it integrates with the traditional editorial process. THe panel features Meg Pickard of Guardian Unlimited, What Car publishing director Patrick Fuller, Alison Wheeler of Wikimedia and Sun Online editor Pete Picton. Patrick Fuller says WhatCar is Haymarket Online’s most successful [...]

@AOP: Meet the aggregators

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There were some sparks in the first panel discussion of the day about aggregators and portals. AOP president and GMG digital Simon Waldman challenged each participant to excplain “Why should we publishers like you?” Google News business product manager Joshua Cohen reiterated the usual lines from Google’s relationship with publishers. It’s a tech company, not a [...]

@AOP Online Publishing Conference 2007

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I’m blogging UK Association of Online Publishers’ Online Publishing Conference at the Hilton Park Lane. The programme for the first half today will look something like this: 9am: AOP chairman and Guardian Media Group director of digital strategy Simon Waldman and the conference chairman, BBC media correspondent Torin Douglas make opening remarks 9.20am: Caroline Little, chief [...]