Interesting Stuff 2008-10-06
The Media section of The Guardian holds over today's front page - and pages two and three - for puzzling out How To Save The BBC.
Polly Toynbee gives an overview; Owen Gibson and Maggie Brown look at regulation and the BBC Trust; Owen Gibson and Richard Wray look at co-operation; Emily Bell looks at an aggregational platform and, most pertinent to BBC Internet Blog, Jemima Kiss has a piece called The BBC Can Be An Open Source For All Of UK plc which quotes our blogger-in-residence Steve Bowbrick and current BBC internet controller Tony Ageh on the BBC's twin roles as programme maker and distributor:
There must be a way to achieve both of these outcomes, without harming the BBC, that would massively increase the viability of some SMEs and invigorate the entire UK ecosystem. Given what's going on in the world, this would be a very good time for such an injection of resources and support.
Stephen Brook also seeks your views.
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Image by James Enck from Flickr
Telecom analyst James Enck went to "HD Online: Can it be a Commercial Reality?" at Bafta:
There followed two very interesting presentations, by Anthony Rose and Andy Quested from the BBC. Anthony Rose seemed to express fatigue with the iPlayer bandwidth debate, and stated his hope that the industry could now move on to consider issues around ISP incentivization and monetization.
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Mike at SocialRovr crunches some BBC subscriber numbers and asks whether YouTube is "atrocious at serving news content in an intelligible way":
Yet it's equally certain that what is presented through YouTube, the de facto leader in varietal Web video, is not grabbing much traction. At least not the sort of traction and recognition that stalwarts like the BBC and AP and others tend to register in the minds of consumers.
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Charlotte McEleny writes at New Media Age about "an online teaser to promote a documentary to be shown at the BBC Electric Proms":
The BBC Electric Proms aims to support new music filmmaking and this year has also commissioned three short films inspired by music tracks from Wild Beasts, XX Teens and Roots Manuva.
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Journalism student Rob Wells discerns a direct tone in one of the Beeb's redirect URLs:
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Internet Blog would like to wish a happy birthday to the Beeb's Indian Ocean relay station:
Launched in October 1988, and currently run on behalf of BBC World Service by VT Communications, the station is transmitting BBC World Service programmes on shortwave to an estimated audience of up to nine million listeners across East Africa.
[For more detail, the BBC press office has a handy list called BBC In The Seychelles: Noteworthy Dates.]
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Finally, a plea from Folie A Deux:
Please people, don't try and fill your time reading the BBCs Internet Blog. Its boring, and to read it I'd need a grey suit and a desk with files on it.
Well, it's a big internet and other technology-focused accountability weblogs are available. Are you still here?
Not that we're caving into these demands, but as a public service, here is the Electric Proms video referred to above:
Alan Connor is co-editor, BBC Internet Blog.
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