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October 30, 2006

And what is Network Neutrality?

Filed under: Web, Business

From Huffington Post

The free and open internet is about to change dramatically.

If the telcos get their way in Congress this fall (I’m looking at you, AT&T, Verizon and Comcast), we consumers might wake up one morning and suddenly find the Huffington Post takes forever to load, or doesn’t load at all. The videos you just posted on YouTube might suddenly become slow, jerky and unviewable — whereas video on say, foxnews.com, plays just fine and dandy and in HD.

If something called Network Neutrality is thrown out the window, then this uneven online world is the one we will all be forced to live in very soon.

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October 29, 2006

Scobles: 10 Tips to a Killer Blog

Filed under: Web, New Media, Business, Blogs

This is a lift from KNow More Media

Ten tips to a killer blog

Robert Scoble

Maryam Ghaemmaghami Scoble

 

 

  1. Blog cause you want to
  2. Read other blogs
  1. Pick out writing styles that you like
  2. Are you compelled to become part of the conversation?  If not, blogging really isn’t for you
  • Pick a niche you can own (be dfferent)
    1. People who write about a specific niche seems to gather an audience faster.  Generalists have a harder time.
  • Link to other blogs
    1. Begin a conversation
    2. Talk about them
    3. Comment on their blog with a relevant comment
  • Admit mistakes
    1. Gains credibility
    2. People keep piling on if you don’t
  • Write Good Headlines
    1. Good headlines get noticed by people in a hurry (who read feeds as a “river of news”.
  • Use other media
    1. Techcrunch uses a graphic in every post
    2. Video
    3. Podcast
  • Have a voice
  • Get outside the blogosphere
    1. Go to conferences
    2. Meet ups
    3. Geek dinners
    4. Create those personal relationships
  • Market yourself
    1. Put url on your business card, email
    2. Stand out
  • Write well
  • Expose yourself
    1. Not Chris Pirillo style
    2. People want authenticity and exposing yourself a little lets people know you are a human being.
    3. Tell interesting personal tidbits that show your uniqueness
  • Help other people blog
    1. Bring new voices into the blogosphere, making our world more interesting
  • Engage with commenters
    1. Respond
    2. Respond quickly
  • Keep your integrity
    1. Disclose sponsorships or paid interests
    2. Let people know who you are

     

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    ON Second Life

    Filed under: Web, Business, Social Network

      From MEDIASHIFT

    A friend of mine who works in PR in San Francisco came up to me at a party last week, and was wide-eyed at what’s been going on lately at the virtual world Second Life.

    “Now that Reuters has a correspondent actually reporting on stories from Second Life regularly, is this now becoming a real world?” she wondered. “How can you tell the difference anymore?”

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    Poynter’s New Media Bibliography

    Filed under: Web, New Media, Business

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    ONLINE RESOURCES

    Adapt or Die
    http://www.ajr.org/Article.asp?id=4111
    AJR, June/July 2006

    A Brief History of the Internet
    http://www.isoc.org/internet/history/brief.shtml
    The Internet Society.

    Center for History & New Media
    http://chnm.gmu.edu/

    ClickZ Internet Statistics and Demographics
    http://www.clickz.com/stats/

    CyberJournalist.net (Jonathan Dube)
    (and CyberJournalist.net J-Blog list)
    http://www.cyberjournalist.net/

    The Day of an American Journalist in 2889
    http://eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/DayAmer.shtml
    Jules Verne’s 1890 short story. (East of the Web)

    The Electronic Frontier Foundation
    http://www.eff.org/

    Elements for Digital Storytelling
    http://www.inms.umn.edu/Elements/
    Nora Paul and Christina Fiebich,
    Institute for New Media Studies, 2005.

    Estlow International Center for Journalism and New Media
    (University of Denver)
    http://estlowcenter.du.edu/

    History of Computing Project
    http://www.thocp.net/

    Hobbes’ Internet Timeline
    http://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/

    Imagining the Internet - Predictions Database
    Elon University/Pew Internet
    and American Life Project.

    Information Science in the 20th Century
    http://libsci.sc.edu/bob/istchron/ISCNET/ISC20CEN.HTM
    Robert V. Williams, University of South Carolina.

    Institute for New Media Studies
    http://www.inms.umn.edu/

    Internet Archive
    http://www.archive.org/

    The Internet: A Short History of Getting Connected (FCC)
    http://www.fcc.gov/omd/history/internet/

    Interactive Narratives
    http://www.interactivenarratives.org/
    Andrew DeVigal.

    International Symposium on Online Journalism
    University of Texas at Austin.

    J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism
    http://www.j-lab.org/
    University of Maryland Philip Merrill College of Journalism.

    Legal Guide for Bloggers (EFF)
    http://www.eff.org/bloggers/lg/

    Lost Remote
    http://www.lostremote.com/

    Mass Media Web Design Historical Screenshots
    http://www.radford.edu/~wkovarik/
    design/designhist/wdmm.hist1.html
    Web Design for Mass Media, by Bill Kovarik, 2002.

    Media Bloggers Assocation
    http://www.mediabloggers.org/

    National Digital Information Infrastructure
    and Preservation Program
    (Library of Congress)
    http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/

    NAA: Digital Edge
    http://www.digitaledge.org/

    NAA: Electronic Publishing
    http://www.naa.org/Electronic-Publishing.aspx

    Nerds 2.0.1 Internet Timeline
    http://www.pbs.org/opb/nerds2.0.1/timeline/

    Newsplex
    http://www.newsplex.org/

    Nielsen/NetRatings
    http://www.nielsen-netratings.com/

    Online Journalism Review
    http://www.ojr.org/ojr/page_one/index.php

    Online News Association
    http://www.onlinenewsassociation.org/

    Online Publishers Association
    (and Internet Activity Index)
    http://www.online-publishers.org/

    The Online Timeline
    http://iml.jou.ufl.edu/carlson/timeline.shtml
    David Carlson, University of Florida.

    Pew Internet and American Life Project
    (and lastest trends findings)
    http://www.pewinternet.org/

    Podcasting Legal Guide
    http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Podcasting_Legal_Guide

    Poynter Online’s “The Chaser”
    http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=56

    Poynter Online’s “E-Media Tidbits”
    http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=31

    Poynter Online’s Eyetrack III (2004)
    http://poynterextra.org/eyetrack2004/

    Poynter Online’s New Media Timeline
    http://poynter.org/nmt

    Poynter Online’s “News University
    http://www.newsu.org/

    Poynter Online’s Online Resources
    http://www.poynter.org/subject.asp?id=26

    Poynter Online’s Search Engine
    (Example: Type in the word “Convergence“)
    http://poynteronline.org/search/

    Poynter Online’s
    Stanford-Poynter EyeTrac Project
    (2000)
    http://www.poynterextra.org/et/i.htm

    Poynter Online’s “Tip Sheets”
    http://poynteronline.org/content/content_view.asp?id=31898

    Poynter Online’s “Web Tips”
    http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=32

    PressThink
    http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/
    Jay Rosen

    Search Engine Watch
    http://searchenginewatch.com/

    Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society

    http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/

    Twenty Year Usenet Timeline
    http://google.com/googlegroups/archive_announce_20.html
    Google, December 2001.

    USC Annenberg Center for the Digital Future
    http://www.digitalcenter.org/

    Useit.com: Jakob Nielsen on Usability and Web Design
    http://www.useit.com/

    Web Credibility Project
    (Stanford University)
    http://www.webcredibility.org/

    WWW-VL: History: Internet & W3 World-Wide Web
    http://vlib.iue.it/history/internet/

     


    BOOKS

     

    BOOKS
    1993-2006

    Abbate, Janet. Inventing the Internet.
    Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999.

    Albarran, Alan B. and David H. Goff, eds.
    Understanding the Web.
    Ames: Iowa State University Press, 2000.

    Anderson, Janna Quitney. Imagining the Internet:
    Personalities, Predictions, Perspectives
    .
    Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005.

    Battelle, John. The Search: How Google and its Rivals
    Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed our Culture
    .
    New York: Porfolio, 2005.

    Berkman, Robert I. and Christopher A. Shumway.
    Digital Dilemmas: Ethical Issues for Online Media Professionals.
    Ames: Iowa State Press, 2003.

    Berners-Lee, Tim. Weaving the Web.
    New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2000.

    Boczkowski, Pablo J. Digitizing the News:
    Innovation in Online Newspapers
    .
    Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2004.

    Borden, Diane L., and Kerric Harvey, eds.
    The Electronic Grapevine: Rumor, Reputation,
    and Reporting in the New Online Environment.

    Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1998.

    Brooks, Brian S. Journalism in the Information Age:
    A Guide to Computers for Reporters and Editors.

    Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1997.

    Burke, Colin B. Information and Secrecy:
    Vannevar Bush, Ultra, and the Other Memex.

    Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1994.

    Callahan, Christopher. A Journalist’s Guide to the Internet.
    Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2002.

    Campbell-Kelly, Martin and William Aspray.
    Computer: A History of the Information Machine.
    New York: BasicBooks, 1996.

    Ceruzzi, Paul E. A History of Modern Computing.
    Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2003.

    Craig, Richard. Online Journalism:
    Reporting, Writing and Editing for New Media
    .
    Belmont, CA: Thomson/Wadsworth, 2005.

    De Wolk, Roland. Introduction to Online Journalism.
    Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 2001.

    Dizard, Jr. Wilson. Old Media / New Media:
    Mass Communication in the Information Age.

    New York: Longman, 2000.

    Fidler, Roger. Mediamorphosis: Understanding New Media.
    Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press, 1997.

    Foust, James C. Online Journalism:
    Principles and Practices of News for the Web
    .
    Scottsdale, AZ: Holcomb Hathaway, 2005.

    Garcia, Mario R. Redesigning Print for the Web.
    Indianapolis, IN: Hayden Books, 1997.

    Garrison, Bruce. Computer-Assisted Reporting. 2nd ed.
    Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1998.

    Gillies, James and Robert Cailliau. How the Web was Born.
    Oxford University Press, 2000.

    Gillmor, Dan. We the Media:
    Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People
    .
    Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly Media, 2004.

    Goldstein, Norm.
    The Associated Press Guide to Internet Research and Reporting
    .
    New York: Perseus Books Group, 2002.

    Graziplene, Leonard R. Teletext: Its Promise and Demise.
    Cranbury, NJ: Lehigh University Press, 2000.

    Gunter, Barrie. News and the Net.
    Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2003.

    Hafner, Katie and Matthew Lyon.
    Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet.
    New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996.

    Hall, Jim. Online Journalism: A Critical Primer.
    Sterling, VA: Pluto Press, 2001.

    Hane, Paula J. Super Searchers in the News.
    Medford, NJ: Information Today, 2000.

    Hansen, Kathleen A. and Nora Paul.
    Behind the Message:
    Information Strategies for Communicators
    .
    Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 2004.

    Harper, Christopher. And That’s the Way It Will Be:
    News and Information in a Digital World.

    New York: New York University Press, 1997.

    Hiltzik, Michael A. Dealers of Lighting:
    Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age
    .
    New York: Harper Business, 1999.

    Jones, Steve. Encyclopedia of New Media.
    Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2003.

    Kaye, Barbara K. and Norman J. Medoff.
    The World Wide Web: A Mass Communication Perspective.
    Mountain View, CA: Mayfield Publishing Company, 1999.

    Kawamoto, Kevin. Digital Journalism:
    Emerging Media and Changing Horizons of Journalism
    .
    Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003.

    —-. Media and Society in the Digital Age.
    Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2002.

    Kolodzy, Janet. Convergence Journalism:
    Writing and Reporting Across the News Media
    .
    Llanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006.

    Lubar, Steven. InfoCulture: the Smithsonian Book
    of the Inventions of the Information Age.

    Boston: MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1993.

    McAdams, Mindy. Flash Journalism:
    How to Create Multimedia News Packages
    .
    Burlington, MA: Focal Press, 2005.

    McGuire, Mary and Linda Stilborne, Melinda McAdams, Laurel Hyatt.
    The Internet Handbook for Writers, Researchers, and Journalists.
    New York: The Guilford Press, 2002.

    Martin, Shannon E. and Kathleen A. Hansen.
    Newspapers of Record in a Digital Age: From Hot Type to Hot Link.
    Westport, CT: Praeger, 1998.

    Moschovitis, Christos J.P. History of the Internet.
    Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1999.

    Naughton, John. A Brief History of the Future.
    Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, 2000.

    Negroponte, Nicholas. Being Digital.
    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995.

    Nielsen, Jakob and Marie Tahir.
    Jakob Nielsen’s 50 Web Sites.
    Indianapolis, IN: New Riders Publishing, 2001.

    Pavlik, John V. Journalism and New Media.
    New York: Columbia University Press, 2001.

    Randall, Neil. The Soul of The Internet.
    New York: International Thomson Computer Press, 1997.

    Reddick, Randy and Elliot King. The Online Journalist. 3rd ed.
    Fort Worth, TX: Harcourt Brace, 2000.

    Rich, Carole. Creating Online Media:
    A Guide to Research, Writing, and Design on the Internet.

    New York: McGraw-Hill, 1998.

    Richardson, Will. Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts,
    and other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms
    .
    Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press, 2006.

    Salus, Peter H. Casting the Net:
    From ARPANET to Internet & Beyond.

    Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1995.

    Salwen, Michael Brain,  Bruce Garrison, and Paul D. Driscoll.
    Online News and the Public.
    Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2005.

    Seib, Philip. Going Live:
    Getting the News Right in a Real-Time, Online World
    .
    Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000.

    Semonche, Barbara P. “Internet.”
    in History of the Mass Media in the United States:
    An Encyclopedia.
    Edited by Margaret A. Blanchard.
    Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1998.

    Segaller, Stephen. Nerds 2.0.1: A Brief History of the Internet.
    New York: TV Books, 1998.

    Stovall, James Glen. Web Journalism.
    Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2004.

    Ward, Mike. Journalism Online.
    Woburn, MA: Focal Press, 2002.

    Wendland, Mike. Wired Journalist:
    Newsroom Guide to the Internet.
    3rd ed.
    Washington, DC: RTNDA, 1999.

    Weinberger, David. Small Pieces Loosely Joined.
    Cambridge, MA: Perseus Press, 2002.

    Wickham, Kathleen, ed. Perspectives: Online Journalism.
    Boulder, CO: Coursewise Publishing, 1998.

    Wood, Andrew F. Online Communication:
    Linking Technology, Identity, & Culture
    . 2nd ed.
    Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2005.

    Xigen, Li. Internet Newspapers: Making a Mainstream Medium.
    Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2005.



    BOOKS
    Before 1993

    Alber, Antone F. Videotex / Teletext.
    New York: McGraw-Hill, 1985.

    Aspray, William, ed. Computing Before Computers.
    Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1990.

    Aumente, Jerome. New Electronic Pathways:
    Videotex, Teletext, and Online Databases.

    Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications, 1987.

    Cringley, Robert X. Accidental Empires.
    Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1992.

    Frieberger, Paul, and Michael Swaine. Fire in the Valley:
    The Making of the Personal Computer.

    Berkeley, CA: Osborne/McGraw-Hill, 1984.

    Hyman, Anthony. Charles Babbage: Pioneer of the Computer.
    Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1982.

    Koch, Tom. Journalism for the 21st Century.
    Westport: CT: Greenwood Press, 1991.

    Licklider, J.C.R. Libraries of the Future.
    Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1965.

    Marvin, Carolyn. When Old Technologies Were New:
    Thinking About Electric Communication
    in the Late Nineteenth Century.

    New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.

    Nyce, James, M., and Paul Kahn, eds.
    From Memex to Hypertext.

    Boston: Academic Press, 1991.

    Postman, Neil. Technopoly:
    The Surrender of Culture to Technology.

    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992.

    Provenzo, Eugene F. Beyond the Gutenberg Galaxy.
    New York: Teachers College Press, 1986.

    Stephens, Mitchell. A History of News:
    From the Drum to the Satellite.

    New York: Viking, 1988.

    Wells, Herbert George. World Brain.
    London: Methuen, 1938.

         
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    YouTube Removes Comedy Central Clips

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    • Sat 28 Oct 2006 11:14 PM PST

    This is probably the most significant cleansing of YouTube since its launch: the service, now in the process of being bought by Google, has removed clips from Comedy Central’s Colbert Report and the Daily Show., in effect getting rid of some of the most popular clips on the service.

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    Multiply

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    A new social networking service Multiply which aggragates all your online social content - photos, video, music, reviews etc.  All the networking in one place.

    October 24, 2006

    Europe more Mobi-centric than US

    Filed under: Uncategorized

    Europeans are far more likely to access the Web on their mobiles than their US counterparts, according to new research reported in Net Imperitive.

    The findings, from comScore Networks, form part of the research firm’s new Mobile Tracking Study, which examines how consumers across six countries in Europe and America (US, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK) access Internet content from their mobile phones.
     
    The research shows that 29% of European Internet users regularly access the Web from their mobile phones compared to only 19% in the US. 

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    Don’t Log On To Us …

    Filed under: Web, Business
    From Media Guardian
    The internet may kill off the demo tape and demo CD. EMI Music’s Parlophone said yesterday that it had become the first big label to adopt a new online demo system.

    A&R Tools, created by the software group Senica, is already used by some independents and now allows would-be artists to upload their MP3 and pictures and stream them to Parlophone’s A&R (artist and repertoire) team.

    Parlophone hopes the scheme will make talent spotting more efficient by letting reviewers assign ratings. For hopeful artists, there is the comfort of automatic notification once tracks have been reviewed.

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    http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=political+action+committee&btnG=Google+Search&meta=

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    From Media Guardian

    Last month Washington’s political set, always ready for a good gossip, were sent into a flurry of chattering by news that Google had registered a political action committee (PAC) with the US federal election commission.

    The creation of Google NetPAC is a first step towards making corporate donations to support candidates seeking elected office. Its foundation less than two months before the mid-term congressional elections, plus the recent appointment of a clutch of Washington movers and shakers to Google’s DC office, has observers painting the company as a possible kingmaker.

    This side of the Atlantic, Google’s chairman and chief executive, Eric Schmidt, has been courted by both main political parties. He lent his Google Zeitgeist conference platform in the summer to David Cameron so he could launch his "happiness" offensive. Earlier this month Schmidt met Tony Blair to discuss the internet, and the next day addressed the Conservative party conference.

    Google Europe’s hiring policy for its corporate communications unit, meanwhile, also seems to have a political angle as, in the space of a few months, it has brought a former union activist together with the partner of Cameron’s chief strategy adviser.

    Is the self-appointed organiser of the world’s information about to become involved in politics? Or is it just a maturing business beginning to realise that the next challenge may well come from regulators and governments?

    Ricardo Reyes, Google’s senior manager of global communications and public affairs, maintains that the company will not follow party lines but will focus on specific issues that affect the internet and therefore the business.

    October 22, 2006

    No Porn in Ireland

    Filed under: Web, General

    There is a story that a T.D. (member of the Irish Parliament) once claimed that there was so sex in Ireland until the arrival of broadcaster RTENiall Stokes told me a story in his in his early days as Hot Press editor coming home through Dublin Airport having a copy of Playboy confiscated - he had bought it for a John Lennon interview.

    But there is sex in Ireland now; I asked for directions in Dublin a few months ago and the helpful passerby directed me "Past the Anne Summer’s shop …".  I do believe my jaw dropped just a little.   There is even sex.ie (don’t get too excited - it’s hardly worth the click - but you will, won’t you …).  OK I’ll wait, then.

    Back?  Crap isn’t it?  Back to the story.

    According to today’s Sunday Times (Ireland edition)

    "A business manwho tried to register the porn.ie domain namehas been refused under Section 3.4 of the .ie naming policy which states thatwebsite addresses ‘must not be offensive or contrary to public policy or generally accepted principles of morality’

    According to both the Irish register of the .ie internet domain extension and the Companies Registration Office (CRO), the word "porn" is a danger to public morality."

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    The country is going to the dogs …..

    Online sales boom for UK

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    From The Sunday Times

    SHROUDED in autumnal mist, within earshot of the din of the M1 motorway in Bedfordshire, extends an enormous, grey windowless building that covers an area six times as large as St Paul’s cathedral, or seven times the size of the Royal Navy’s biggest aircraft carrier.

    Amazon.co.uk’s “fulfilment centre” at Ridgmont, just south of Milton Keynes, is well into a pre-Christmas recruitment drive that will treble the size of its workforce in 12 weeks to deal with up to 450,000 parcels dispatched on each of the busiest days in the festive season.

    *
    The 1,000 students and temporary workers arriving at Ridgmont and its sister site at Gourock, west of Glasgow, are hard evidence of the explosive 25% to 30% annual growth in internet retailing.

    Whether it is customers buying Humble Pie by celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay from Amazon, or one of the 42,000 cars for sale on Ebay’s UK website, or mince pies from Tesco, online retailing this year is expected to rack up sales of £10.3 billion, excluding services such as travel and finance.

    “We are planning for very strong and sustainable expansion,” said Brian McBride, Amazon UK’s managing director.

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    It’s astonishing what you find on Wikipedia.  It’s only recently that I discovered there that I discovered that I was born on the same day that Heartbreak Hotel was released.  Although I'’ve never been an Elvis fan.

    In the late ’70’s when the smell of Punk was still fresh in the Belfast air, I began my broadcasting career playing loud, discordant music to a small audience of radio listeners. Following a stupid argument with a BBC executive I was hired as a radio producer by the corporation to establish a "youth programme" at a time when "youth" a fashionable accessory for the broadcasters of the UK. I continued to present occasionally, including a series for TV which all now accept to be a "mistake".

     

    In the 1980s I was to been found in the glittering world of Radio 1 during the last days of the Smiley and Nicey brigade, and in the intellectual capital of broadcasting, Radio 4, working for two periods until overcome by home sickness and an unalterable belief that there is no place better than Northern Ireland. And that was when Northern Ireland was generally a dangerous place to be. I returned home to work on a range of programmes on Radio Ulster.

     

    I joined BBC Online in 1999 first as a producer and was appointed Editor in 2002 overseeing the production of bbc.co.uk/northernireland and interactive and enhanced TV productions. The growth of New Media audiences has been staggering. The website now has more monthly users than there are people in NI and around 12 million page impressions each month.

    In the vanguard of driving forward a digitally aware and literate Northern Ireland, I work with several other organisations including NI Government departments, BT, Business in the Community, Educational Guidance Service for Adults, BBC R&D, Qinetiq, Northern Ireland Council for Voluntary Action, Invest NI and a whole bunch of others.

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