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Biased BBC (Free subscription) | yesterday
In the latest issue of Standpoint, Nick Cohen argues that the recent Twitter campaign against the Daily Mail's Jan Moir was less about "'reader power' in action" and more to do with like-minded people "affirming their membership of the liberal tribe…" The use of Twitter to affirm one's trendy, right-on credentials is especially noticeable among the UK's tweeting celebs and...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
We're back in the bowels of the Guardian's Kings Place HQ for another of our not-quite-live and not-quite-outside broadcasts this week. Matt Wells is joined by an all-star panel for a special edition of Media Talk from the Guardian Student Media Conference , where the next generation of Toynbees, Paxmen, and Brookers are preparing to take their first steps into an industry in crisis. Five Live's Richard...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Rival spin doctors Malcolm Tucker and Stewart Pearson go head to head - and find they have a lot in common Read Paul Owen's episode four blog SPOILER ALERT: This weekly blog is for those who are watching The Thick of It series three. Don't read on if you haven't seen episode five The Thick of It seems to be broadening its range of targets specifically so it can start insulting as many BBC colleagues...
AdLand Suit (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
[The below list has already appeared in an earlier post, but people seemed to like it - as such, I thought I'd publish it separately so that people don't have to read through the pro-twitter polemic that originally preceded it. I've added in a few extra points just to make this vaguely defensible as a 'new' post.] The twitter experience is nigh on impossible to define - it's different for everybody....
Peerage News (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
_Victoria Bacon (née Panton) wife of Richard Michael Bacon, Conservative MP for Norfolk South (b 3 Dec 1962), gave birth to a son, Ranulph Stephen Talbot, 29 Oct 2009, a brother for Rollo. --==--
The Guardian - TV & Radio blog (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
George Lamb's departure from his weekday 6Music show has caused quite a stir In the Twittersphere, news that George Lamb is leaving his 6Music weekday show to move to weekend breakfast has caused quite a stir. Someone has already tallied up the tenor of tweets in the hours after the story broke – mostly jubilant, some not, and some just moaning about random other things – and those in...
trading as wdr (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Do you get the feeling that Adrian Van Klaveren and Bob Shennan sit round with a doctored set of Happy Family cards, with big cartoons of presenters on each one ? Bob, at Radio 2, gets Simon Mayo for his drivetime show five days a week; but trades Simon on Friday afternoon back to Ade for a film-based 5Live show with Mark Kermode. This leaves Richard Bacon with four of Mayo's old 5Live slots, and presumably...
The Guardian - TV & Radio blog (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
His critics have been vocal - and now George Lamb is to move to weekends on 6Music. Who else gets you reaching for the radio off button? George Lamb to leave BBC 6Music daytime slot So George Lamb is to lose his daytime slot on 6Music and move to the weekends , news that will surely please Lamb's critics (and they are many in number) no end. They have been vocal in their dislike for the presenter...
Digital Examples (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
I've always been interested in how hits happen - how some ideas get spread around and some don't. This post is a look at some rules for how hits happen on twitter, using data from an analysis of the Jan Moir twitter storm two weeks ago (well covered by The Guardian here ). I used the tracking tool Radian6 to look at the total number of tweets on the day the story broke, then focussed on those that...
computing (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
Tom Young, Computing , Friday 30 October 2009 at 12:25:00 Care records system is likely to be costing taxpayer hundreds of thousands of pounds per user per year, says MP There are only 174 clinicians using Lorenzo patient software across the five early adopter trusts, according to Mike O'Brien, minister for the National Programme for IT (NOfIT). Five Boroughs Partnership, Bradford Teaching Hospitals...
Golf Shoes Blog (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
Golf Shoes Blog Inundated By Comments On Albartross Golf Shoes First of all, check the posts with the comments… (here and here). Two messages from Horton (one on eac post) and two from Damien who also wanted me to know who Richard Bacon was so I suspect he may be Richard Bacon but I don’t know. [...]
accidental observer (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
With the Moir row still rumbling on both on Twitter and in the traditional media, the debate is starting to shift towards analysing the rapid and seismic storm that erupted soon after the article first appeared on the Daily Mail Website. Jan Moir herself posed this very question in her public apology. Of particular focus is the fact that the Twitter storm was very much fuelled by a number of celebrities...
Biased BBC (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
Any thoughts on the new Five Live schedule ? Victoria Derbyshire's recent Nick Clarke Award for best broadcast interview has been rewarded with the loss of an hour to Obama-lovin' glamour puss Gabby Logan, who will now be on from 12 'til 2 weekdays. She'll be followed by Richard Bacon which means that R5L's afternoon output will now be determined by the daily obsessions of a tiny number of like-minded...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
TV sports host Gabby Logan is to host a new daily afternoon show in a shake-up for BBC Radio 5 Live, it was announced today.
trading as wdr (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
Radio 5 Live controller Adrian Van Klaveren must have found money from somewhere. According to the Media Guardian, he's about to unveil Gabby Logan as a weekday presenter on 5Live, with a new slot from 12 to 2pm. If nothing else changes, then Victoria Derbyshire will presumably run 10-12, and Richard Bacon from 2 to 4. But that looks like three slots, three salaries (and three production teams ?) where...
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