cbc

Home
cbc

Share |

A click too far

Why Quit Facebook Day didn't work

1 June, 2010
3
by Rob Cottingham

The CBC's Theresa Lalonde interviewed me back in January about social media trends for the coming year, and she was kind enough to replay one of my predictions that actually seems to be coming true (that people are going to become more attentive to how they use platforms like Facebook, and who they friend) in a piece about Quit Facebook Day.

read full article

Share |

Social media, on purpose

Rob on what 2010 will bring for social media

15 February, 2010
0
by Rob Cottingham

I missed passing this along when it first came out, because I didn't know those nice CBC people had put it on YouTube. It's their segment on what to expect in 2010 for social media, based on an interview they did with me in their stunning new Vancouver studios.

read full article

Share |

This week's vendetta: Comments on news stories

For news sites, "just add comments" is a recipe for disaster

29 May, 2008
2
by Rob Cottingham

Vendetta of the Week It's an axiom of Web 2.0 that you have to, have to allow users to comment on your content. Have to.

And there's no question it can lead to some interesting, provocative, productive conversations. The downside is that it can also lead to little more than splenetic venting.

read full article

Share |

George Stroumboulopoulos has a new hangout in Second Life

24 February, 2007
1
by Rob Cottingham

I think it was Tod Maffin who mentioned it today at Northern Voice: CBC host George Stroumboulopoulos now has an official crib in Second Life, built by Montomery Nordwind. Click here to visit.

(Y'know, I think that's the most links I've ever put in a single sentence.)

read full article

Share |

CBC dips the whole foot in the podcasting waters

4 May, 2006
0
by Rob Cottingham

Okay, so it isn't the revolution. But it's a big step forward for the CBC as Radio One unleashes a whole bunch of new podcasts on an unsuspecting public.

Every day will bring a new edition of a particular podcast:

Monday - The Best of Ideas
Tuesday - Dispatches
Wednesday - The Best of Outfront
Thursday - The Best of The Current
Friday - The Best of As It Happens
Saturday - Quirks & Quarks
Sunday - The Best of DNTO

That enough for you? Wait, don't answer – there's more, updated with varying frequency:

CBC Radio 3
Sounds Like Canada: The Digital Extra
CBC Radio Editor's Choice
Words at Large
Word of the Week

Still got some room on that iPod? There's also a weekly roundup of stories from every region of Canada.

The upshot is a dramatic multiplication of the CBC's podcast offerings, with a promise of more to come. This has to be pretty gratifying for the broadcaster's in-house tech visionary and podcast evangelist, Tod Maffin, who's done a lot to make this happen. Online communities around each podcast would be a natural next step, but this is terrific progress.

read full article