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Talk about small pieces loosley joined

I’m at a conference for editors at a large traditional business publisher, Reed Business Information. I’m here to about how blogs have successfully used personality, character and attitude to gain attention (that’s a simplification – obviously there’s the whole Cluetrain stuff as well, among many other things). Mention is made of Rafat’s PaidContent, which is described as a blog about paid-for content (except, to be brutally honest, outside of its

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Talking at Reed Net happening

I’m talking to journalists and editors today at the Reed Editors conference in sunny (well, not today) Brighton. The entire day is about the Internet – and it’s fascinating to see a business publishing company like Reed getting to grips with the ‘new wave’ of online publishing. I’m talking about blogging. Hope it goes well…

File sharers start to shutter after Supreme Court ruling

[Reuters]: Popular file-sharing site WinMX.com has shut its doors, along with eDonkey.com, appeared to be closed, following the landmark ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court in June that held anyone who distributes a device used to infringe copyright is liable for the resulting acts of infringement by others. In the wake of the decision, the trade group Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) last week sent out “cease-and-desist” letters to

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Reflections on PodcastCon

Is the geeky, sniggering, know-it-all world of ham radio alive and well in the UK? The answer of course is, who knows and who cares. But it’s clear a similar crowd is being attracted to a new craze – podcasting. That, at least, could well have been the impression some took away from PodcastCon.co.uk, the first ever conference held on podcasting in the UK yesterday. Ok, let me back-up here.

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At PodcastCon

I’m at PodcastCon. Lots of podcasters here, from the UK and abroad. People range from the big media firms (Virgin, BBC etc) to lots of ‘amateurs’ (ie they have a day job too). Interesting stuff. I’ll write it up later (my notes are not great blog material, and I’m too busy making them to blog them as well, sorry). Actually scratch that, here are some badly typed notes form this

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I’m a gun for hire

I’ve decided to pull back from a couple of things I’ve been doing lately and make myself more available for new projects. No, that is not a round-about way of saying ‘gizzajob’! And I’ll still be writing for the usual suspects. I’m just saying I’m a ‘gun for hire’. There are a number of interesting things going on right now, so it seems like the right time to be open

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