BBC News

Every page on the BBC News website now has a bunch of social bookmarking links at the bottom (‘Digg this’, etc). There’s a help page which explains what the icons do: ‘These sites allow you to store, tag and share links across the internet. You can share these links both with friends and people with [...]

A post on the BBC Editors blog announces some developments on the BBC News’s Have Your Say forums. With each story they are now publishing the numbers of rejected comments and the number of comments in the moderation queue. If you sign in, it also tells you the status of all of your comments. The [...]

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News Online As Narrative

December 23, 2004, 12:52 am

Like many people now, I tend to read a lot of news online (mostly BBC News and the Guardian), as well as reading the occasional newspaper (mostly the Independent or the Guardian). It goes without saying that the two forms are very different, and are read in different ways. Newspapers allow you to see lots [...]

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BBCi News and Blogs – Continued

October 7, 2004, 3:10 pm

A while ago, I published the idea that the BBCi News website should accept pings (to allow it to link to blogs discussing the article. Tom Coates points towards a BBC-external website, Wikiproxy, which is pulling together exactly this information. However, rather than accepting trackbacks/pings, it pulls the info from Technorati. This has the advantage [...]

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