Just spoke to Ian MacKenzie from BBC Radio 1, a piece for Newsbeat,
5:45pm today.
* I stressed that editing from work is fine, it's conflict of interest
that's bad.
* "the CIA guy can edit Buffy, he shouldn't edit CIA"
* "If your boss is OK with you editing from work, we're OK with you
editing from work"
* "Someone at the BBC shouldn't edit Radio 1, even if they're not in
that department"
* A lot of people just don't know how to approach us, e.g. Microsoft
example. We want to be more approachable, we don't want people scared
of us.
* Public perceptions - even though Microsoft were very open about
offering to pay a blogger to edit, people were outraged
* "Everything you do online is visible. If people catch you lying, or
even being unethical, it will be recorded online, it will be
remembered and they'll tear you to pieces. Be utterly honest." - he
really liked this one, I suspect it's going in.
(I know some here disagree on Microsoft's innocent intentions ... but
we lose nothing by being nice, and they did get massive bad publicity,
and everyone I've spoken to remembers them getting massive bad
publicity :-D )
I'm now going down the shops. Next radio interview will have to be on
the mobile ...
- d.