Robert Andrews

UK Editor at ContentNext

Flicking angry over sale of painting

October 25, 2006
John is touting a meme. I'm a bit busy to look into it in any depth at the moment, but I will pass it on... As BBC News reports, "a council planning to auction an LS Lowry painting to help balance its books may be excluded from the Museums Association, its chief has said". John and some ot...

Mixing with Paidcontent

October 19, 2006
Well done to Rafat Ali (pictured talking with Graeme Ferguson, ex of Vodafone) and co. of Paidcontent on their first UK mixer, held at Bethnal Green last night. And a "hello" to the various associates I caught up with there, including Graham Holliday (better photos), Jemima Kiss, Kevin Anders...

Slightly worrying, Dr Kawashima

September 26, 2006
Well I'll claim this is because it's a brand-new toy and this was my first go....

Merc reporter launches micronews site

September 4, 2006
San Jose Mercury News venture capital reporter Matt Marshall, who, together with colleague Michael Bazeley, has followed the valley money in their must-read SiliconBeat blog for two years, has quit the paper to form an independent website covering the same beat. VentureBeat, a WordPress-power...

Scoopt moves to sort the stock from the scandals

August 17, 2006
Citizen photojournalism agency Scoopt has teamed up with digital picture distributor fotoLibra in a partnership designed to better identify newsworthy images from stock material. Cardiff-based fotoLibra, an open-access photo house with 10,000 members, is an online channel for photographers to...

From media, to me-dia, to we-dia?

April 4, 2006
After the final coffee of the day, it's time for the session titled Blogs and the Media (perhaps the one I've most been looking forward to)....

More blogosphere linkage

April 4, 2006
Anu Gupta has joined the party, writing about today's event at his scale|free blog. He has more comments than we do. Gabe MacIntyre's there, too....

Rules, regs and how to do business blogging safely

April 4, 2006
"Lawyers can give you many reasons why corporate blogging is a really bad idea", says Pinsent Masons partner Struan Robertson, who runs the very good tech/law webzine Out-Law, as the session on Dos and Don't of Corporate Blogging session begins......

Bloggerati luncherati

April 4, 2006
Just returned from lunch. Over salmon fishcakes, chatted with Alfie Dennen, Hugh Macleod and more about moblogging, publicity, smoking and how to market wine....

Keeping your ear to the ground

April 4, 2006
It's time for B4B's What Blogs Are Saying About Your Business session on how to monitor what the great washed/unwashed amongst the estimated 33.2m worldwide blogs are writing/podcasting about you....

Podcasting and vidcasting

April 4, 2006
Alex Bellinger of Audacious is moderating the Introduction to Podcasting and Video Podcasting panel, consisting of podcast practitioners Marc van Woudenberg, Nick Mailer, Lloyd Davis and Nathalie McDermott....

Read a hundred websites a day? Kiss my RSS

April 4, 2006
It's time for the RSS Workshop session, with Jeremy Phillips, COO of Market Clusters. RSS, or Really Simple Syndication, is a great way to stay in touch with all your favourite websites' latest content - subscribe to RSS feeds published by an increasing number of websites, and their new content, may...