Work was a hive of activity on Friday, as our new exhibition, Game On, had its media launch ahead of its opening to the public today. I’m told it was one of our most successful launches ever, in terms of media turnout, and so we got a great deal of coverage on tv, in print [...]
I spent today at an event being run by the Science Museum to present some ideas about emerging new media and exhibition trends to a group of MPs, Lords and other officials who are working on a project to build a visitor centre for the Houses of Parliament. My role was to blog the event, [...]
Crikey, it’s been a while since I’ve written much here. In fact, it seems to me to be quiet generally in the blogosphere at the moment. My reasons for not having posted much are that I’ve been busy at work, and that it’s so hot that it’s too uncomfortable to spend much time on the [...]
BBC Director General Mark Thompson presented his plans for future BBC strategy today, in what he called ‘Creative Future’. Most of the best coverage was over on Media Guardian, which carried Thompson’s speech in full (registration required) and many followup articles. Most of the mainstream media, eg this morning’s London Metro newspaper, had picked up [...]
I went to a talk yesterday afternoon called Online Marketing at the Crossroads (sponsored by SEO company Latitude, in association with NMK). It was only two hours long, it was in the basement of an odd private members club off The Strand, and it was pretty good. Paul Doleman from Latitude opened the even with [...]
I’ve already written up a quick reaction to ‘Podcastcon’, the podcasting conference that took place on Saturday, but this is a more in-depth review of the day. I’ve already praised the conference for being very interesting and well-organised, so this entry is taking a more critical approach. 9:30am – Welcome Neil Dixon introduces the conference [...]
Well, what a busy weekend I had. Saturday was spent moving to my new flat in Dulwich, which was not without its upsets. The bed man arrived before we had got there (even though I had asked for it a bit later), and so it took many phone calls before we could finally pick it [...]
I really like the BBC’s Coast series, which is currently on BBC2 and being trailed across the BBC network heavily. The programme itself is interesting, but pretty standard. It’s the new media element which is really exciting though. They’ve created audio commentaries for twelve walks at coastal points across the UK, and these can be [...]
The BBC’s Creative Archive is a project, announced yonks ago by Greg Dyke, in which BBC content would be made available to the public under a Creative Commons-esqe license, allowing redistribution and derivative works (in the UK). The site launched a couple of months ago, but so far the only material to have been released [...]
The slightly bewilderingly name Yahoo! MyWeb 2.0 marks and attempt by Yahoo! to clawl some credibility back to its search offerings. It consists of a few features, most of which can already be found elsewhere: Saving search history – As seen at: A9 and Google. Implementation: nothing special, the switch to turn it off isn’t [...]