"It's goodbye from me": Round up, 27 September 2010
Today is my last day as Editor on the BBC Internet blog and I wanted to say goodbye.
It's the job of this blog to share interesting and important things that the BBC's up to in the digital space. But it only works because of the active participation of the blog's community engaging and asking questions. Keep up the good work.
In the time that I've been here there have been lots of good things on the blog and interesting conversations on other websites that we've linked to on BBC Internet blog's delicious feed (also available via Twitter). Here are a few we featured on delicious recently:
On the Online Journalism Blog Paul Bradshaw criticises BBC news stories for happily quoting data but not linking to the data itself or publish it in full:
"In the world of print and broadcast, narrowing a story to fit space was a regrettable limitation of the medium; in the online world, linking to your sources is a fundamental quality of the medium. Not doing so looks either ignorant or arrogant."
Visual designer Paul Robert Lloyd is an enthusiast for the BBC News redesign:
"There is often talk of there being no landmark design on the web. I’m going to stick my neck out, and suggest it won’t be long before BBC News Online is considered one of the greatest design icons online today."
It was announced last week that Project Canvas will be called YouView. Martin Belam wrote:
"Whilst most people have concerned themselves with whether the YouView logo is a little too close to Star Wars for comfort, personally I'm delighted to see that, as a project involving the BBC, the new website homepage has obeyed Currybet's Law."
BBC iPlayer is now available on more and more devices such as Sony's new TVs.
A recent FOI request for some iPlayer bandwidth info has been answered.
There’s a new kid on the BBC blogging block in the shape of the BBC Radio blog.
Paul Murphy was the Editor of the BBC Internet blog.
Comment number 1.
At 19:47 27th Sep 2010, Mo McRoberts wrote:Farewell Paul, you were a beacon of sanity in a crazy crazy world.
Hope new pastures treat you well!
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Comment number 2.
At 15:27 28th Sep 2010, clare wrote:Best of luck with your next endeavour! It's a loss to the BBC.
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