Interesting Stuff 2008-09-03: Seetha Kumar new Controller, bbc.co.uk
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| 10:39 UK time, Wednesday, 3 September 2008
Seetha Kumar (ex head of BBC HD) has been appointed Controller, bbc.co.uk. From the press release:
Seetha will lead the overall strategic and editorial development of bbc.co.uk, chairing a new bbc.co.uk board which brings together key executives from across the BBC.
The BBC's Research and Development at Kingswood Warren celebrated its 60th birthday last week with a demonstration of a "working real-time demodulator capable of receiving signals compliant to the DVB-T2 standard":
This is the first time anywhere in the world that a live end-to-end DVB-T2 chain has been demonstrated.
There's also a thread on the Digital Spy forums.
"MPs slam BBC Lonely Planet Link" from today's Daily Telegraph. Plus a blog post from TRIPHOW.
If you've been following reaction to BBC News' experiment with in-text linking Steve Herrmann has now responded to comments while ex-BBC man Ben Metcalfe thinks it's been "a great success".
Matt Deegan has some thought-provoking observations about series stacking on the BBC iPlayer.
And Innus thinks the iPlayer is "smart" - so smart he's twittered it.
Nick Reynolds is editor, BBC Internet Blog.
Comment number 1.
At 16:35 3rd Sep 2008, Ben Metcalfe wrote:As a stickler for disclosure (wonder where I got that from?? Oh yeah, my days at BBC!) I just wanted to state that whilst I do genuinely believe the trial with Apture has been "a great success", I would like to point out I am an advisor and have an interest in the company.
I feel uncomfortable about people reading this post without that disclosure being made.
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