David Rowan’s 10 Tips For Facing The Future

http://www.flickr.com/photos/parakeet/4311345832/ This morning, another encounter with David Rowan, UK editor of the Wired magazine I have read avidly since 1995 - in Cardiff's Wales Millennium Centre. Rowan gave a futuristic and open-minded pep talk to kick off the Creative & New Media Co...

Announcing a change to this site

2002 - June 2002 - Aug 2003 - Feb 2003 - Apr 2003 - Jun 2004 - Mar 2005 - Feb 2005 - Feb 2006 - Nov 2006 - Nov 2007 -Jul 2010 - Jan Better late than never? It's been nearly three years since my last proper blog post ...

Election retrospection

So I'm watching Welsh Assembly election night TV coverage. Probably the first such election I haven't covered as a reporter. Which feels odd. Not least because some folk I know have swanned off to various parties (thrown by parties) down the Bay. Humph. So I thought I would pull out some of my previ...

Back from Paris

Well it's not often I write directly to here nowadays. Just wanted to point you toward some other work I did in Paris last week, for Ifra, at the 6th Newsroom Summit. Wrote a lot about the emerging convergence of multimedia newsrooms here - http://www.ifra.com/website/website.nsf/html/CONT_NP_SUMMIT...

Breaking news – Apple product announcements

Breaking news - Apple product announcements Originally uploaded by RobertAndrews. ...

Will repeat earthquake shake distributed journalism?

As remembrance services take place for the devastating 2004 tsunami in south east Asia, the UK's Sky News TV channel this Boxing Day cites the AP, then other sources as claiming a 6.7 earthquake at sea, off the coast of Taiwan. Japan's meteorological agency chips in to confirm a 7.2 quake and war...

You! Me! Blogging!

Back in August of this year, I had two epiphanies in one night. I took myself (and myself alone) to see a cracking little Canadian band called Broken Social Scene down at The Point. Actually, "little" isn't the word - led by Kevin Drew, BSS is a glorious indie collective made up of around 18 musi...

Sacré Bleu! Le Web 3 fall-out

There were some negative remarks about the Le Web 3 conference when I was out in Paris earlier this week, surrounding the organisation and tone of the event. Upon our return, things took a decidedly weird turn. Following a disagreement between TechCrunch UK publisher Sam Sethi and conference orga...

Reporting from Paris, Le Web 3

Day one of the Le Web 3 conference (about the state of the web, media and communications) was marked, we have decided, by a certain lack of web. The wifi was barely there all day, making it quite difficult to file any copy or do any research. Also thin on the ground were bottles of water, or any ...

What’s the biggest thing in web/media?

So I'm trying to think about what have been the standout trends/developments online this year and how they're going to bear fruit in the media space next year, and because my brain's not working - in the best tradition of "my readers know more than I do" - I thought I'd throw it open and turn it...

Social networking in the real world

So I'm sitting in one of my favourite cafe bars, typing away, booking things and e-mailing people, and the sound system starts playing The Postal Service's The District Sleeps Alone Tonight and it's sweet. The Sunday mums and dads tuck their screaming offspring into their rigidised Islington push...

Is this thing on? What do you think?

Friends, associates, compadres - http://www.robertandrews.co.uk has been resuscitated. Anyone who has been a regular visitor to this address over the past seven or so years (yes, both of you) may have noticed things went a bit quiet back in December - a hiatus imposed by lack of time and other wr...

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