An interesting take on blogging from Nick Robinson at the BBC. As the Chancellor was delivering his Budget to the Commons, Nick was delivering his thoughts to the blogosphere at a specially created Budget 07 ‘blog’.
But look again – lots of short updates in a very short space of time? You might call that ‘microblogging’… perhaps a classic use-case for last week’s darling of the blogosphere, Twitter?
If I’d had more time, I was going to register the Twitter ID ‘gordonbrown’, and twitterise the speech. But, like, I’ve got a day job. (And I’m quite proud to say I published my 600-word write-up of the speech within 30 minutes of Brown sitting down. 🙂 )
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Interesting you should point that out, because it’s exactly what the Press Association did on the day : http://blogs.pressgazette.co.uk/fleetstreet/2007/03/15/pa-will-report-2007-budget-in-second-life-and-on-twitter/
Great minds thinking alike… what can I say? 🙂