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mbites Podcast – Corporate Blogging – PR guff or PR savvy?

The mbites.com podcast this week looked at the relatively new phenomenon (at least in the UK) of corporate blogging: blogs run by firms and organisations both as a communications exercise and as a kind of customer relationship thing. We also touched on blogging ‘as publishing’. The guests (pictured above) were Tim Houghton, managing director of New Media Intelligence, and Dana Gornitzki, editorial consultant, journalist and contributor to the The Globe

Create and they will come

Does the UK’s creative sector actually know how to make sense of the opportunities the Internet provides? I asked myself this question while chairing a panel about the opportunities for SMEs in the brave new world of “Web 2.0” last night. It was an event by Cass Creatives and InSync. Cass Creatives is a joint initiative from Cass Business School’s Department of Management working with iKnowHow, while InSync is a

Interview with Channel 4’s Jon Snow at Media Guardian Summit

Click to download a short interview with Jon Snow at the Media Guardian Changing Media Summit (see Mediabites.com for coverage). I asked him about his view that the media should collaborate with bloggers.

mbites Podcast: Digital music – how the fans and the bands are revolutionising the music business

The mbites.com podcast this week looked at how digital music is impacting both on music fans and the artists themselves. The guests (pictured) were Laura Lee Davies, former editor of Time Out magazine in London and a music journalist of 20 years experience, and Ben Drury, founder and managing director of 7digital.com, which provides digital downloading services to many leading brands and artists’ web sites. Download the MP3 file here

New event on IPTV

March 21, 2006
Mike Butcher
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I’m developing an event for New Media Knowledge on the new area of IPTV (Internet Protocol TV) on 25th May. I’ll be looking for speakers, participants, delegates and sponsors, so get in touch if you fall into any of those categories.

A pincer movement on the papers

A perfect online storm is gathering against newspapers, and the editor of The Guardian knows all about it. Alan Rusbridger spoke to the Royal Society of Arts in London last Thursday night on the subject “Newspapers in the age of blogs.” The Guardian’s editor is almost certainly unique amongst British newspaper editors as having regularly supped with start-ups and Web 2.0 companies in Silicon Valley. He is trying to figure

Mbites Podcast: Moblogging and Podcasting – media from the masses?

March 16, 2006
Mike Butcher
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This week Mbites.com hosted its latest “Bitecast”, featuring two guests: Alfie Dennen (left), co-founder of Moblog UK and Chris Skinner (right), co-founder of Podcast User Magazine. Download the MP3 file here (approx 19MB, 20 minutes long) or subscribe to the podcast feed and download it automatically into your favourite podcasting software and/or mobile media player device. The second in our regular series of podcasts (chaired by journalist Mike Butcher) looked

The IPTV portals – a road to nowhere

Watching coverage of the recent IPTV Forum in London, I was struck by the extent to which the telecoms industry is poised to make the same mistakes it made during the Internet boom, this time in the realm of TV. To explain. Major telcos like BT, France Telecom and others have a slight problem. Local loop unbundling has brought a number of new players into competition. Revenues from voice calls

Microsoft’s Origami – a paper tiger

Microsoft’s Origami is a joke. Does Gates really think we are going to walk around with this VAST device, as if it were a mobile? Check out the advert. Check out the guy gaming on the device on a tube station. How long would it take him to get mugged? I’d say about 10 mins in some stations in London. It’s bad enough with mobiles. As the BIMA event (note:

Which one has the blog?

I find it interesting that a site started by a 16 year old student to lobby in favour of science and animal testing is unavailable today. But the 16 year old’s original blog is still up, where you can comment and contribute to the debate. Meanwhile the anti-vivisectionist site for Speak doesn’t allow people to comment on their news stories. So which side is more open to debate do you

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