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A BBC blogging seminar organised by Robin Hamman. Guests included Jeff Jarvis, Graham Holliday, Adriana Lukas and the fine people from Headshift. Lots of grappling with very practical problems and frustrations.

Closing the day, I mentioned a colleague who loftily declared that anyone who blogs is merely engaged in an act of narcissism. Some truth in that of course. But it overlooks some more interesting reasons.

There's no better way to understand the huge changes sweeping the media than getting your hands dirty online. It's fallen to us to reinvent the industry and we won't do it with heads in either the sand or the clouds...

Comments

[Kempton]

Hi Richard,

It is so refreshing to read what BBC is doing in the blogging front. Bringing outside respected, independent, and outspoken guests like Jeff Jarvis to speak is a great thing. Too bad it was an internal event thus there is probably no video for the public to learn from ?

Being Canadian, we have CBC. And in my humble opinion, CBC's new blogging guidelines is ill-advised to say the least. I even blogged about it here.
http://kempton.wordpress.com/2007/10/26/cbc-blogging-guidelines/

And, in hindsight, may be I should have asked for your permission in advance before I used links to some of your blog entries to illustrate my points.

Now, may I ask for your forgiveness in using those references? Of course, I will remove the links if you wish.

Best Regards,
Kempton

P.S. I am not a CBC employee. But deep down, I am proud of CBC which is why it hurts so much when I saw the wrong signal being sent to CBC employees re blogging. There can be so much good be done by CBC employees.