Round Up (The Usual Suspects) Friday 22 October 2010
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| 20:04 UK time, Friday, 22 October 2010
It's good to be busy. In the pile of links today:
plusnet shows a graph about Government Spending Review: BBC iPlayer Traffic:
Streaming traffic on the BBC iPlayer hit 1.7 Gbits/second this afternoon, a record for a political steam...
"YouView chief: we are not anti-competitive" from the Guardian. Anthony Rose (ex BBC iPlayer, now Chief Technology Officer for YouView), is quoted:
"There are seven shareholders, clearly they are all contributing their money for some purpose; but to me, it's a little bit like the [movie] Usual Suspects. There's a body somewhere, police have arrested eight people, they've all done something in the past but they are probably not directly connected with this... When you see the way the user experience team and the technologists work to solve very basic problems it becomes very clear that it's nothing to do with these cartel aspersions."
Crave takes a robust view of YouView: "YouView waved through as Ofcom ignores Sky's moaning". While in comments on the story Andy Dandy is even more robust:
A real step forward. C'mon you BBC! iPlayer, Yoooooooooou Vieeeeeeeeeeeeeew. Knock em dead.
To my embarrassment I missed Steve Herrmann's post about "BBC News Linking Policy" earlier this week.
Broadband TV News reports Erik Huggers' post about Net Neutrality: "BBC Argues For Net Neutrality."
A FOI request from Robert Holmes about the BBC and "Social Networking" from What Do They Know reveals:
"Our HR department has conducted a search for all those staff with 'social media' either in their job title or in the department name. This search identifies 20 individual staff equivalent to 19.6 FTE."
Bat Signal image from singloud12 on Flickr
Roo Reynolds (one of those BBC staff with social media in his job title) on his personal blog:
"Hashtags on programmes - It's the bat signal!"
"It's a secret bat-signal. A neat solution to a tricky editorial problem... It works for all microblogging services, and doesn't give undue prominence to Twitter".
Nick Reynolds is another of those twenty people: Social Media Executive, BBC Online
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