BBC staff with blogs – a list
Posted on Thursday, September 13th, 2007 at 11:59pm. #
Signs pointing to the BBC, from Redvers on Flickr. Used under licence.
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Update: These lists are now removed. I’ve posted an archive in case you wanted a list for yourself.
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Within the BBC, you can run your own blog on the intranet. This appears within the BBC firewall, so we can speak more freely, and, conversely, nobody can read it unless they’re at work, and if they’re at work, they should be doing something more interesting than reading guff from their colleagues. As a concept, I’m slightly dubious. I can’t plug those blogs into Google Reader, and I’ve not found an easy way to find them, so I don’t read them. Sorry, colleagues.
However, a discussion on something called talk.gateway (think “a discussion forum linked from the intranet to help people while away their dismal lunchbreaks eating their mangiare soup” for those people stuck in W12) today included a list of BBC staff with public blogs. I appeared there, despite this blog descending into nothing more than a del.icio.us link list recently, and there were some I didn’t know about (and conversely, I knew of some that they didn’t know about).
Anyway, for those of you – and I know there are some – who want all BBC staff public blogs, then you, too, can read them – here. If you’d prefer an RSS feed, you’ll find one here. This list contains some ex-BBC people of note too; and the naming convention shows who they are, and where they’re based – so mine says “James Cridland/AMi” since I’m based within Audio and Music Interactive (even though I actually work for Future Media & Technology). I hope you find it useful. If I’ve missed you, and you work in the BBC, then a) keep your blog up to date, and b) let me know where it lives – via email if you like.
And as I type, two boring things:
1. I discover that my RSS feed here is broken. I’ll fix that tomorrow. Fixed. Feedburner wierdness: have regressed to feeds.feedburner.com instead of rss.james.cridland.net
2. My del.icio.us links. Are these actually useful within this blog? Should I just link to my del.icio.us page, and stop adding them to my blog itself? Please let me know – by comments here – whether you want me to keep adding my del.icio.us links to my blog postings. I’m thinking about stopping them; do you want me to keep posting?
Andy Buckingham
Bem
Martin
Keep posting the del.icio.us links. The signal-to-noise ratio is good enough. Nice having them in the RSS feed (which doesn’t seem broken at this end), and I’d never follow a link to a del.icio.us page in the normal course of events. Hope that helps – David