newmedia | Ryan Morrison (Up Your Ego)

May
16

Imitation, flattery and the BBC

Category: Blog Tags: BBC, clone, copy, Design, hrt, interface, newmedia, rtl 4 Comments

I have an a blog post in draft I’ve been putting off four about a month now that asks the question “what’s wrong with the new BBC Homepage?” The premis being that I like so why doesn’t everyone else.

Apr
14

By Ryan Morrison

Highfield moves to Kangaroo

Category: Blog, Media Tags: ashleyhighfield, BBC, erikhuggers, futuremedia, guardian, iplayer, kangaroo, newmedia, Technology Leave a Comment

The BBCs Future Media Director, Ashley Highfield, is to leave the embrace of the public service arm of Aunty and move to the Commercial arm of Uncle BBC.

Mar
30

By Ryan Morrison

New BBC News Soon

Category: Blog, Media Tags: BBC, BBC News, BBC News Online, Design, interfact, newmedia, Steve Herrmann, Television, website Leave a Comment

I’ve blogged a few times now about various news websites and their designs and I’ve mentioned more than once that I think BBC News is in need of a new look.

Mar
25

By Ryan Morrison

Five tips when writing online

Category: Blog, Web Tags: article, blog, blogging, Media, newmedia, text, writing 1 Comment

I’ve been working professionaly in new media for a decade now – the first half as an interactive designer and the second half as a new media journalist. Over the decade I’ve written tens of thousands of words.

Mar
6

By Ryan Morrison

All white on the Beeb

Category: Blog Tags: BBC, Design, interactive, interface, Media, newmedia, tv Leave a Comment

I’m not going to write about the content of the series, or even the series itself at the moment – but as it’s the first big brand show to launch since the move to the new wide format on bbc.co.uk (excluding BBC THREE which is another post all to itself). I felt I’d write a few words about the new BBC White series section of the Beeb website.

Feb
24

By Ryan Morrison

Jersey in the news

Category: Blog, Media Tags: "Haut de la Garenne", google, googlenews, interactive, jersey, Media, newmedia, police, search Leave a Comment

As part of my job I often find myself searching for Jersey on Google, Google News or Google Blog Search – I’ll even occasionally look up the island on sites like IMDB, Wikipedia, TV.com and others.

Feb
22

By Ryan Morrison

As seen on four

Category: Blog Tags: BBC, bbcfour, Design, links, newmedia, Promotion Leave a Comment

They like me, they really like me. I’ve looked at the BBC TWO and BBC FOUR websites in envy in the past as I’ve seen other bloggers quoted and linked to from their index.

Feb
14

By Ryan Morrison

People buy people

Category: Blog, News Tags: amazon:asin=0330411926, bbcnews, editors, Entertainment, newmedia, News Leave a Comment

I was just listening to No Agenda with John C Dvorak and Adam Curry where they were talking about the news and the proliferation of entertainment news into every aspect of reportage.

Feb
14

By Ryan Morrison

Anti-Social Creature

Category: Blog, Web Tags: amazon:asin=1591392705, antisocial, Media, network, newmedia, socialnetworks Leave a Comment

I’ve signed up for every social network that pops up and continue to sign up for every social network as they launch.

Imitation, flattery and the BBC

Highfield moves to Kangaroo

New BBC News Soon

Five tips when writing online

All white on the Beeb

Jersey in the news

As seen on four

People buy people

Anti-Social Creature

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