May 4, 2006
open democracy
In blogging terms, the Brits have three great online heavy hitters:
1. The Economist.
2. The Guardian.
3. The BBC.
Actually, there’s now a fourth. Open Democracy.
Jeff, I hope you’ve picked up on it. Articles like this one. Brilliant stuff.
Serious kudos to them. I hope you’ll check it out.
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Hey Hugh, do you not think yo are being a little unfaor to the BBC there? They should be in second place at least!
I feel they are doing a great job of building momentum up after the recent conference speech about emerging media technologies.
With Alfred Hermida (Chief Technology Editor) now blogging about the changing media space and other public interest events being blogged about (such as the Commonwealth Games) I feel that they are doing a great job in bringing these tools to the public.
Then again, credit to The Guardian already having put into practice what the BBC is now explaining to the masses.
I wasn’t ranking them, Paul
I never had you down for a ranker anyway Hugh!
the BBC is using the net to disseminate programming that would never get widespread distribution any other way — but blogs are not the tool of choice for any large media organization — check the “power of nightmares”. Why did the BBC choose to put all 3 episodes of this online? They could have just explained it in a blog enty using a lot less bandwidth.
Stroll on
Just linked to Open Democracy.Do we need more stuff like this? Yeah!Yeah! probably to infinity.
Hugh you and Tara rank high too.
Roger