Category: Online Media

  • The BBC’s Second Life

    This weekend, the BBC is broadcasting One Big Weekend, a live rock concert from Dundee, Scotland. Giant screens in various UK locations enable anyone there to enjoy the happenings from Dundee. Not only in the real world, though: The BBC…

  • The state of British podcasting

    Podcasting in the UK has reached its tipping point, says Dean Whitbread in a podcast interview with Hugh Fraser for ID3 magazine. In the 10-minute podcast, Hugh interviews Dean and Neil Dixon of Britcaster.com, a driving force behind the growth…

  • The shift in trust

    The BBC and Reuters published Trust in The Media (PDF) today: A major 10-nation public opinion poll exploring Trust in the Media has found that even though the media is more trusted than the national government in half the countries…

  • An obituary for mass media

    The announcement yesterday by the BBC on their plans to re-invent themselves for the ‘age of participatory media’ makes everything that any mainstream media organization has done to date with blogs, podcasting and other social media just look like tinkering. Trying…

  • Entertainment community starts with 65 blogs

    Gemstar-TV Guide International, publisher of the US TV listings magazine TV Guide, has launched one of the largest professional entertainment blog communities on the internet. This is huge: […] Over 65 entertainment blogs are now live on the site, featuring…