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The opening ceremony for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing gets underway at midday GMT today, an event that will be broadcast live on television across the world.
During the next two weeks, you’ll be hard pressed to avoid seeing and hearing about the Olympic Games whenever you turn on the TV or radio or [...]

London-based publishing conglomerate Pearson - owner of the Financial Times, among other companies - announced its half-year financial results this morning.
Market watchers seem pleased with Pearson’s performance. One item in the press release caught my eye:
[...] FT.com benefits from launch of innovative new access model involving registration for access to more than five articles [...]

One of the reasons I often hear as to why podcasting took off in the US is because of the poor choices available from radio.
Homogenized content and script-reading presenters wherever you listen are among the anecdotal statistics thrown about.
It’s never really been like that here in the UK. I think we still have a rich [...]

I visited the Financial Times headquarters in London yesterday, part of a group of six bloggers who met with some senior FT editors and reporters for an informal get-together to talk about FT.com, blogging, journalism and anything else that took our collective fancies.
As someone who’s been a paid subscriber to FT.com for nearly six [...]

Reading a Reuters story on their website, I noticed something that highlights to me what’s at the heart of the problem with the Associated Press.
These two international news agencies seem to be poles apart in their philosophy about content sharing.
The AP has been at the centre of a storm of protest during the past [...]

It’s hard to see what’s driving the thinking at the Associated Press in light of the storm of anger they have whipped up as they implement what looks to be a “pay-as-you-quote” system that you should comply with if you want to use any AP-distributed content on your website or blog.

And I mean any [...]

At a time when news is fast becoming a commodity - you don’t care so much where the news comes from as it’s the news itself you’re interested in - the behaviour of the Associated Press news agency looks distinctly dinosaurish.
In a nutshell, the AP is trying to stop a blogger posting even small [...]

Today the BBC unveiled a new look to the BBC News website.
It’s a refreshing update. I visit very few websites these days and BBC News is one of them (it’s actually the home page in my browser).
I like the new design. I left a comment (#75) on the post at The Editors to say [...]

French president Nicolas Sarkozy is in the UK on a state visit, the first by a French leader in over a decade.
Watching the BBC News 24 live coverage this morning of his arrival at Windsor Castle for all the pomp and ceremony associated with such occasions - see this 6-minute Qik video I did [...]

A couple of days ago, someone forwarded me a request from a journalist writing a piece for a national UK paper about social networking.
The journalist’s questions were a little unclear:
I need ‘ten top tips’ for social networking, what to do (as opposed to what not to do). i.e., things to encourage comments and feedback on [...]