A student sent me this clip from the British comedy programme, Yes Prime Minister, on who reads the newspapers in Britain. It is very funny, especially because its analysis is spot on

The new guidelines from the BBC on social media are now available online. There are two parts to this, the first dealing with how the BBC should approach social networking sites and the second on how the use by BBC staff of social networking sites. The guidelines on the use of social media by the BBC reflects concerns about protecting the brand. But they also recognises that the corporation should

BBC NEWS | dot.life | Privacy on Facebook New controls but it is unclear exactly what they mean (tags: socialmedia social_software social_media) Photojojo » Photography and The Law: Know Your Rights Excellent advice on rights as a photographer (tags: photography photos citizenjournalism guides law)

The BBC News website has published an analysis I wrote on the tangled web of the Spitzer scandal, the prostitute and social media. It discusses how young adults such Ashley Alexandra Dupre make it easy for journalists and bloggers to find out intimate details about them by posting deeply personal information on social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook. The creator of the web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, summed up

A tongue-in-cheek primer on how to produce a radio show by host Nora Young and the team at the CBC show Spark. Remember, before you do anything, you need a good idea for a radio show! For more gems, here’s the video. (Via Inside the CBC blog)

Do you trust online news more than newspapers? | Guardian Unlimited A new survey shows that online news is now more trusted then newspapers. (tags: journalism newspapers online TV) Four ways to engage our readers : CyberJournalist.net Bill Densmore, director of the Media Giraffe Project at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, proposes that there are four ways of “serving news-hungry consumers”. (tags: newspapers community journalism)

The Project for Excellence in Journalism report on the State of the Media for 2008 is online. It offers a comprehensive and thorough analysis of trends in the media and is required reading for anyone in journalism. Digesting the report will take some time. But I wanted to highlight two of its major trends: “News is shifting from being a product — today’s newspaper, website or newscast — to becoming

The issue over the use of photos of Ashley Alexandra Dupre taken from social networking sites like MySpace has just taken another twist. Her court-appointed attorney, Kelley Drye’s Don D. Buchwald, has attacked the media for invading his client’s privacy. The press release (PDF) from the attorney says the alleged call girl was “thrust into the public glare at age 22 without her consent”. He goes on to accuse some

The mystery of Ashley Alexandra Dupre’s disappearing MySpace page is solved. The profile of Eliot Spitzer’s alleged call girl at myspace.com/ninavenetta was accidentally deleted by MySpace, in response to the flood of people checking out her profile. This set off a feeding frenzy between cyber squatters jostling for control of the hottest space on the social networking site. The profile changes hands frequently, as MySpace canceled accounts, before finally restoring

The BBC has finally started to roll out the use of embedded video in Flash, after a successful trial last year. The trial found, unsurprisingly, that people liked having the video as an embedded Flash file in story pages. One of the first stories to use the new player was a behind the scenes look at Google’s approach to office space on the BBC News website’s technology index. Up until