Sunday, June 22, 2003
"Umm, what is up dood? We are down with the kiddies and this happening 'blogging' malarky, oh yus! Why, I ought to pop a cap up yo' ass, yes indeedy!"
The BBC is hosting a 'Blogging in Brazil' page. All fine and dandy. They've sent a reporter to Brazil to travel along the São Francisco river, following the trail of Sir Richard Burton. Ver' good. But if the page in question is anything to go by, it's not going to look any different to any other BBC webpage. Plus there's the little matter that the first entry posted today has a dateline of, um, tomorrow. Maybe it will look better when there is more than one entry, but at the moment it looks little more than a typical BBC report, with the 'blog' keyword dropped in to sound like they're up-to-date on current trends. What about a group-blog for the foreign correspondents around the world, so they can talk about their day-to-day lives and local stories that normally get hidden away at the end of 'From Our Own Correspondent' type shows? That's something I'd like to see.
The BBC is hosting a 'Blogging in Brazil' page. All fine and dandy. They've sent a reporter to Brazil to travel along the São Francisco river, following the trail of Sir Richard Burton. Ver' good. But if the page in question is anything to go by, it's not going to look any different to any other BBC webpage. Plus there's the little matter that the first entry posted today has a dateline of, um, tomorrow. Maybe it will look better when there is more than one entry, but at the moment it looks little more than a typical BBC report, with the 'blog' keyword dropped in to sound like they're up-to-date on current trends. What about a group-blog for the foreign correspondents around the world, so they can talk about their day-to-day lives and local stories that normally get hidden away at the end of 'From Our Own Correspondent' type shows? That's something I'd like to see.
