Be careful what news stories you comment on - you might end up on BBC News!

So, the other day was a great bit of fun for me.

I was eating lunch (at my PC, I know - yuck!) and reading a business story on the BBC web pages. It was a good story and being a bit of a Web contributer, I decided to post a comment on the story. Well, 10 minutes later and a member of BBC staff was on the phone to me - "we liked your comment - would you be willing to talk to a reporter?"

"Sure", I said - I mean, the company I work for has put me through media training!

30 minutes after that and a reporter calls me, turns out she wasn't a reporter, rather the business editor of the BBC Breakfast show. We had a nice chat, and she said that "I was very clearly spoken and would I be willing to say my comment on camera?"

"err, sure" I said - I mean, I'm sure that it was very good media training...

"Ok, they will be with you in an hour", she said.

Wow, just like that - a bit less than an hour later and a film crew turned up at my house (thanks for letting me pop home boss!)

A fun experience having the BBC film in my house for 40 seconds of fame:

The really fun thing is that as I was watching this the next morning, some of my friends started te xting me - my favorite was from a friend over in IBM (hiss) - "Ruddy heck, you are on the BBC!"

So, turns out contributing to the internet community can start a chain of events that ends up with you on national TV!

Matt