Interesting Stuff 2008-06-02
Matt Cashmore of and shows us the for , prepares the and launches the .
The Â鶹Éç's Dan Taylor writes about - exemplified by the new Â鶹Éç homepage - and gives other Beeb-related examples:
I was hoping to link to the Â鶹Éç's 'Book of the Future' in my previous post on collaborative storytelling, but was alarmed to discover that not only had the site been taken down, but the URL which had been used to promote the site (bbc.co.uk/future) was now redirecting to a page on the future role of public service broadcasting.
Andrew Bowden of the Â鶹Éç's interactive TV team , his team's "unnervingly accurate" estimates of delivery dates and Â鶹Éçi's new service offering comments from . That done, a certain summer sporting event is approaching:
With Weather out of the door, there's just the simple matter of the Olympics. For Â鶹Éçi, the Olympics are huge - back in 2004, nearly 9m people used the Â鶹Éçi Olympics service on Sky alone - and this year it's expected to be even bigger. And on Freesat too.
has put in to the Â鶹Éç which begins:
I write concerning the entering of whole post codes into Freesat receivers. This has to be done before the receiver will display programmes. Freesat is a joint venture between yourselves and ITV.
Robin Hamman gives this presentation to the conference in Amsterdam and asks "Why do I do this to myself?!":
Finally, Chris Williams writes at about the closure of the Today programme's message boards, followed by some comments sceptical about , including :
The Â鶹Éç may also tend to attract not only people with a feeling of entitlement, but a significant number of people who actively dislike the organisation and don't really care if the forums do suffer.
The "community" to "random-whiner" ratio seems pretty low.
The name "Â鶹Éç" is particularly attractive to the kind of person with time to kill and an ego that thinks everyone else is in desperate need of the enlightenment only they can bring, as well as to regular trolls.
Alan Connor is co-editor, Â鶹Éç Internet Blog.
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