A couple of weeks ago Andrew Grant-Adamson, who teaches journalism at the University of Westminster, kicked off an interesting debate when he asked "What's the Purpose of Newspaper Blogs?".
That debate drew comment from The Guardian's Neil Mcintosh, The Telegraph's Shane Richmond and many others both from within the newspaper industry, academics, observers and indeed the audience.
Well, I realise the BBC isn't a newspaper but I couldn't resist taking this opportunity to try to open up the debate wider to see what people think the BBC and other media organisations should or shouldn't be trying to do with their blogs. The post and debate is over on BBC 5 Live's Pods and Blogs...
Talking about 'opening up' the BBC. The new bbcgoodfood.com site is quietly doing something simple, but interesting, in the background and I don't think they're shouting about it - yet.
http://flickr.com/groups/bbcgoodfood/
Posted by: graham | 16 November 2006 at 02:58 PM
Well spotted Graham. It's not the first BBC website to have a flickr group though:
http://flickr.com/groups/theoneshow
http://flickr.com/groups/bbcworldcup/
http://flickr.com/groups/bbcattinthepark/
There are more here: http://flickr.com/search/groups/?q=BBC
We've also done some experimentation with asking people to tag their photos with a particular tag so that we can go out and find them: http://flickr.com/photos/tags/bbcmanchesterblog
Posted by: Robin Hamman | 17 November 2006 at 10:22 AM