Interesting Stuff 2009-01-20
Hitwise informs us that following a BBC drama series, the official Anne Frank website has experienced a traffic hike of 19 times its usual hit rate.
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Gavin and Stacey stars Mat Horne and James Cordon will be featuring in a series of 'webisodes' to accompany their new sketch-show series on BBC Three.
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Readers using Linux distribution Ubuntu may find these instructions useful for setting up iPlayer Desktop.
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Today marks the inauguration of Barack Obama, and Rory Cellan-Jones discusses how it'll pan out across the web. The BBC, he says, will feature:
Video reactions sent in by users of services like Seesmic and Qik, and there will be a "mood map" with people around the world invited to say whether they are optimistic or pessimistic about an Obama administration, and their reactions then flagged on the map."
Five Live is also publishing plenty of Inauguration Day pictures on its Flickr stream.
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It's all gone a bit hypothetical on the Backstage mailing list. Ian Forrester chipped in with this scenario:
Say, we had a ton of media assets from a BBC programme which we owned all the rights to and wanted to distribute widely. Not just video, but images, sound, subtitles, metadata about the programme scripts, etc.
How would you 1. Package it? 2. Distribute it? 3. Licence it?
Dave Lee is co-editor, BBC Internet blog, BBC Online, BBC Future Media & Technology.
Comment number 1.
At 18:51 21st Jan 2009, Seurat wrote:Cool.
A graph showing that primetime showing of a television programme increases public awareness of a subject, with a subsequent increase in internet traffic.
Can we have a pie chart showing the religious persuasion of Roman Pontiffs next?
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At 21:46 22nd Jan 2009, Joe Halliday wrote:Don't be silly, this isn't called 'Things You May Not Have Realised'; rather 'Interesting Stuff'.
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At 10:44 13th Sep 2009, U14134634 wrote:This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the house rules. Explain.
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