Media Network Series Two

Snaps taken at the official inauguration of the monument to the PHOHI shortwave transmitter towers at 14 hrs UTC, Saturday 11th November 200...

Japanese Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Yoshihide Suga issued an unprecedented and controversial order today, Friday 10 Novemb...

Research in Beijing this week shows that this blog is on the banned list in China - at least attempts to access it are futile. www.jonathanm...

Yep, jokes already coming my way that I live in the city of Two Towers now (see below). Seems the towers will be officially blessed by the m...

  Just down the road from the monument are the Phohi flats and shops. Until now, the only monument to the fact that transmitters once stood ...

  So there I am, driving along the Randweg, a road on the southern side of the my home town, Huizen, in the Netherlands. I came up to a roun...

  Its gone from warm and wet to cold and wet here in the centre of the Netherlands. One day autumn. Make a note of it. 

  Pleased I went for a hybrid car. The Prius I ordered in July has turned up. Amazing technology under the hood. Have just driven 200 km and...

Interested to see this morning that BMW has reported a decline in third-quarter sales as its profits failed to meet market expectations. The...

I have made comments in this blog of the uneven nature of BBC World. Watching the "raw feed" in many parts of Europe is very diffi...

Europe just put the clocks back to winter time. Amsterdam is now UTC +1. It is done on the last Sunday of March and October. This year the U...

Yikes, Windows Error on Rome Departure Terminal Originally uploaded by Jonathan Marks . For my horror collection of Windows error screens. ...

Brochure Chaos - the competition for attention Originally uploaded by Jonathan Marks . Today, the final day of WCCD, a lot of time has been...

Tape Recorder Collection Originally uploaded by Jonathan Marks . Spent a few hours this morning at the radio museum inside the Vatican Gard...

Rome Colosseum Originally uploaded by Jonathan Marks . Buses left the FAO to take people back to the out-of-town hotel and then on to a gal...

Community Radio Discussion Originally uploaded by Jonathan Marks . I went along to a session today on community radio. Held in the Mexico r...

AMREF Student Reporters at WCCD Originally uploaded by Jonathan Marks . Camera man films camera man. He has a better mike than I do. And a ...

AMREF Student Reporters at WCCD Originally uploaded by Jonathan Marks . The African Medical & Research Foundation is training former st...

Great to meet Gordon Adam this afternoon, formerly BBC and now in the broadcast consultancy business, especially in developing countries. He...

BBC World Debate Autocue Originally uploaded by Jonathan Marks . Yep, that's how they do it.