March 2010 Archives

The decision of the BBC Trust to examine whether the BBC's iPhone application plans need further regulatory oversight is the right one, and the only that could have been made.

The BBC has announced it will close half of BBC Online's top level sites - but the list published yesterday has only caused confusion about what actually constitutes a top level site in the eyes of the Corporation.

Today's Russian owned London Evening Standard opted not to lead with the suicide bombings in Moscow - a case of being damned if they did, and damned if they didn't.

The Sun overlays an explosion from an advertiser on top of news of the suicide bombings on the Moscow subway.

I'm continuing my break from blogging, but here are some events I will be attending and taking part in during the next few weeks. Plus a picture of my baby.

For Ada Lovelace day, I've blogged about 5 women who have inspired and influenced my career in technology, and to whom I owe a huge debt of gratitude.

Over the last week or so I've been reviewing online newspaper coverage of the recent Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics. In the final part of this series, I want to look at elements of coverage in Germany and Canada, and present an overview video with some clips of the sites in action.

The fifth part of this series looking at online newspaper coverage of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics is an overview of some of the features that appeared in the Austrian press before the games got underway.

In describing The Guardian's MPs Expenses crowd-sourcing experiment as a "total failure", the Evening Standard's Paul Waugh gives us a glimpse of one of the reasons the traditional media industry finds it hard to innovate with technology.

In part 4 of this series examining online coverage by newspapers of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics, I'm looking at uses of Twitter from Sweden and Germany, and a community platform in South Korea.

Best ever user comment in the Mail about the James Bulger killers? "We should have hung them when they were ten. Killing children is wrong". This article looks at what happened when I tweeted a link to it...

In the third part of this series, I'm reviewing the very similar online coverage of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics from two of Sweden's biggest papers - Aftonbladet and Expressen.

The second part of this series looking at online newspaper coverage of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games has a focus on visual navigation elements appearing in France and Italy.

The opening post in a series looking at online newspaper coverage of the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics from around the world.

In the last of several posts around the web about the 2nd London Linked Data meet-up, here are my notes on issues of privacy, distribution, software licences and setting usable standards for open linked data.

My blog post yesterday about human readable linked data URIs sparked a lot of discussion in the comments and on Twitter. In this follow up post, I argue that just because it wouldn't make sense for the BBC to do it with their /programmes URI schema, doesn't mean it should be ditched as a worthwhile aspiration for those who can manage it.

One of the topics that came up in last week's London Linked Data meet-up was whether URIs needed to be human readable, or whether computer generated random mixes of characters were acceptable. For me, human readable is the way to go every time.