- Alex Trickett
- 25 Oct 07, 11:18 AM
London - The Rugby World Cup blog is now closed for comments.
Thanks to all of you for reading - we have had some 10 million page views since launching back on 28 August. And particular thanks to all who have written in to share their thoughts with us.
You can continue to get your blog fix on our Editors, TMS and Mihir Bose blogs.
And keep your eyes peeled for new blogs in 2008, which will be a phenomenally busy sporting year. Olympics, Euro 2008, Ryder Cup... Bring it on!
- Alex Trickett
- 28 Aug 07, 10:16 AM
Keep reading this blog for all the latest from rugby union's showpiece event in France.
News and reports will be on the but we hope to bring you the colour and gossip behind the scenes right here.
In particular, two of our journalists - Tom Fordyce and Ben Dirs - will be blogging their way around France in a camper van.
They - like all of our bloggers - are keen to hear your views. We want people to engage and comment on what we have to say.
Continue reading "About the Rugby World Cup Blog"
- Alex Trickett
- 13 Jul 07, 11:41 AM
After six years as a journalist, I'm now a senior content producer, helping to run and evolve many of the interactive things we do. This means overseeing established areas like our blogs, , votes and .
But it also means trying out new things with cutting edge websites like , and .
I'm well aware that our office is not the sole domain for bright ideas though. So your thoughts, comments and questions are always welcome.
A born and bred Londoner, my sporting allegiances obviously lie in Liverpool (), New York () and Louisiana () and I'm a big boxing fan.
I'm also currently obsessed with the Amazon (rainforest not online shop), pan fried scallops and .
- Alex Trickett
- 30 Jun 07, 02:43 PM
Sometimes comments do not appear promptly.
The number of comments you see after each post (and on the right hand side of the main blog page) is the number of comments that should be on each post. But there are some technical limitations which slow this process...
Here's why it happens.. (you may have seen this explanation before, on Nick Robinson's blog..)
"The difference is due to the way that the content of the blogs is published. Without going into too much heavy detail, when a blog is updated, certain bits of it are rebuilt and certain bits are automatically changed. These rebuilt sections are then transferred across multiple servers. Sometimes due to the heavy load on bbc.co.uk some of the bits find themselves stuck in a queue waiting to be published. The rebuilt bits can take longer to arrive than the others... and so there is sometimes a disparity between number of comments 'totals' and actual published numbers."
Please bear with us and your comments will appear, subject to them not breaking the house rules.
