Tag: bbc news

Who do you need to talk about the iPhone Antennagate? Me!

Because after Steve Jobs has made an emergency press conference to discover discuss the “there’s not a problem with the antenna, but people say these bumpers fix the antenna problem” you need to have someone cast a cold and dispassionate eye over the whole thing. So who are BBC News gonna call? Me.   Thanks to Leeky for the video.

Picked up by the Nationals

The Daily Dust, the “good news newspaper” Kevin Dixie and I have been working on in the background had a good 2009, and it continues to grow in the new year. The promise of a quick read newspaper (naturally online) with just good news, no war, famine, death, destruction or being run over by cows seems to be popular with readers in the UK (and beyond). It might not have been picked up by the Web 2.0 geekerati, but it’s making small waves in its own special way and on the radar of many. The coverage of Chris Evans new

Le Web Report now up on BBC News

My annual report from Le Web is now posted on BBC News, in the Technology section. The venue may be a former morgue, but Le Web, one of the largest conferences looking at net-based businesses and technologies, proves the web is very much alive and kicking. Hosted by Geraldine and Loic Le Meur, the 2,300 attendees spent two days in Paris looking at how the internet has developed and what technologies are likely to shape its evolution. The Le Meurs spotted the rise of the "real-time web" when planning this year’s conference – with so much information being created every

Blog World Expo Report – The Professional View (via BBC News)

I’ll be doing a more personal look from my time at last weekend’s Blog World Expo in the next few days, but I’ve (a) got some catching up to do after spending a carbon-footprint decadant long weekend in Las Vegas and (b) the paying gigs come first. In the meantime you can get my professional thoughts via BBC News. The advertising slogan says that what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. But at Blogworld Expo it was more likely to appear online, either written up on a website, as a photo on image sharing sites such as Flickr, or as