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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 [...]

Last week, I had a terrific conversation with Brian Pittman, director of content for Bulldog Reporter and Bulldog Reporter’s PR University.
We spent an hour discussing digital immigrants, mindset shifting in PR practice, challenges for communicators with social media, what’s on the horizon, and a lot more.
Brian’s posted that conversation as an interview: Are You [...]

A number of things struck me as I sat in a briefing room in Microsoft’s main London office yesterday morning.
The occasion was a press event by Microsoft to announce their vision for online video in Europe including their strategy for MSN Video, its on-demand free video channel on the web.
Probably the biggest news was [...]

In the blogosphere, you’ll always hear talk about how people who write blogs or otherwise use social media can wield some influence in affecting the opinions of others.
There is plenty of evidence to indicate that social media does have influence on not only the opinions but also the actions of others.
The recently-completed New Media, New [...]

This is what you now see if you go to any of the websites of Blognation, the blog network that’s been embroiled in scandal and controversy for the past few weeks.
It’s too bad. If there’s one thing that disgraced entrepreneur Sam Sethi did, it was pull together a great team of talented writers in [...]

Ever since Blognation opened its virtual doors last July, it’s been one of my primary essential daily destinations for RSS reading.
It’s an ambitious idea from Sam Sethi - build a network of blogs covering news about emerging startups in Web 2.0 tech and mobile in key markets worldwide.
So far, Blognation has 13 localized sites [...]

A new information resource for communicators launched today - Media Bullseye, the latest venture from serial entrepreneur Chip Griffin.

Chip, who is also CEO of CustomScoop - one of the sponsors of the FIR podcast I co-present with Shel Holtz - describes Media Bullseye as "a multimedia magazine focused on the changing communications landscape and [...]

As the chairs in this photo might indicate, the hip Soho Hotel in London has quite an eye-popping venue for a meeting.
This was the scene early yesterday morning in the hotel’s screening room  just before people arrived for the start of "Influencing the online influencers," a meeting organized by Mantra PR in which I [...]

Some interesting posts and discussion on the BBC Internet blog centered around Linux and how open source the BBC is with regard to its sites and its content.
What I found interesting are these stats included in Martin Bellam’s related post:

It’s not so much the raw numbers nor Bellam’s analysis:
[...] as a proportion of users, [...]

Good to see that TechCrunch UK is back up and running again under the editorial helm of Mike Butcher.
Especially good to note that we now have two excellent blog resources on tech and tech startup news in this part of Europe - TechCrunch UK and Blognation UK, the latter launched by Sam Sethi in July.
Mike [...]