“I think we have been slow to embrace blogs as a way of discussing our strategy and direction. This often leads to the debate happening elsewhere, based often on only half the information, and without our being able fully to join in the debate. We’ve not done ourselves any favours, and we want to use this blog to re-engage with our friends and critics.”

That’s not my words - instead, those of Ashley Highfield, who is Divisional Director for BBC Future Media and Technology (and my boss’s half-boss). I think that’s his first public blog posting, too, and he’s welcoming-in the BBC Internet Blog, a kind-of complement to the BBC Editors’ Blog from BBC News and BBC Sport; and something similar (but hopefully much more responsible and grown-up) to Virgin Radio’s techblog which I launched a few years ago.

It’s great to see this blog there - particularly great to see the owl on the right-hand side of the page (which any tech geek of-a-certain-age will recognise, but I’ll not spoil it for you if you’re too young). I’m one of the people who’s been asked to blog on there, but I’m currently moderately unclear whether my blogs will go past a committee of twenty people who’ll rewrite it and send it back for revisions, so we’ll see how it works. But I’ve a login and a password for the BBC blog system, and someone has taken a photo of me and made it into a little avatar, so it’s all very exciting. I look forward to posting something highly libellous and getting the site shut down.

I’m hoping that I can get away with moderately re-heating some of the postings I make here, but bothering to back up my wild assertions with facts and stuff (though if you read Biased BBC apparently that would be most unlike the Corporation).

Anyway, I notice that they’re linking to my blog already: apparently my high praise for the BBC Electric Proms site was deemed nice enough to link to, so that’s a nice thing.

Let me know what you’d like me to blog about, if anything, in the comments. My comments (unlike the BBC’s blog) are pre-moderated if you’re new, post-moderated if I trust you.

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