Interesting Stuff 2008-06-16
%3Ca%20href="%3Ca%20href="https://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/news/2008/06/iplayer_to_include_radio_content.html">%3Ca%20href="/blogs/bbcinternet/anthony_rose/">Anthony Rose gives a talk on virtual channels, personalisation and - worryingly - a "shoot out" at %3Ca%20href="https://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/news/2008/06/iplayer_to_include_radio_content.html">Broadcast's Digital Channels Conference:
Rose predicted that a lot of the scheduling for these genre clusters will be done by computer but said there will always be a need for human schedulers.
"The endgame is that the linear scheduler isn't quite dead yet. Long live the online scheduler," he said.
%3Ca%20href="https://www.expressandstar.com/">%3Ca%20href="https://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/jun/15/bbc.digitalmedia">James Robinson writes in The Observer on the Â鶹Éç's plans to enhance its online local coverage and the familiar admixture of public service, market impact and the Â鶹Éç Trust:
It even argues that its enhanced, online offering will drive traffic to local newspaper sites, pointing to a trial in the Midlands 18 months ago which published links to stories from other sources, including %3Ca%20href="https://www.expressandstar.com/">the Wolverhampton Express & Star, doubling the number of hits it received.
%3Ca%20href="https://www.macpredictions.com/2008/06/since-when-did-four-legged-chair-become.html">Graham Bower muses in Mac Predictions on Apple's role in the marketplace for TV delivery:
Apple's US-centric focus is in part to blame. Whilst Virgin Media are doing an excellent job in leveraging their (bizarre) exclusivity with the %3Ca%20href="/iplayer/">Â鶹Éç iPlayer, Apple has failed to do a similar deal - despite the British-broadcast-monopolist's publicly professed %3Ca%20href="/blogs/bbcinternet/2008/01/ip_to_tv_your_comments.html">interest in the platform.
[Editor's note: other British broadcasters are, in fact, available.]
%3Ca%20href="https://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/msg08998.html">On the Â鶹Éç Backstage mailing list, %3Ca%20href="/blogs/bbcinternet/james_cridland/">James Cridland answers concerns about internet-radio-compatibility, talks %3Ca%20href="/blogs/radiolabs/2008/03/coyopa_takes_shape.shtml">Today and chats %3Ca%20href="/blogs/radiolabs/2008/03/coyopa_takes_shape.shtml">Coyopa.
%3Ca%20href="https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/topstories/2008/06/16/no-panic-for-web-drivers-over-fuel-strikes-89520-20608874/">Greig Box Turnbull writes in The Mirror about %3Ca%20href="https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7453326.stm">the Have Your Say fuel map [thanks to Researcher 237269 in the %3Ca%20href="/blogs/profile?userid=237269">comments]:
People power beat the panic out of the strike.
Motorists logged on to an interactive Â鶹Éç website to update each other on where to buy fuel.
And the message was clear yesterday that motorists are not panicking.
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Finally, %3Ca%20href="https://open.typepad.com/open/2008/06/i-see-tags-ever.html">Antony Mayfield blogs at Open... about Brandtags, which "asks people to submit words and phrases that come into their heads when confronted with a series of logos", using the Â鶹Éç as an example.
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Alan Connor is co-editor, Â鶹Éç Internet Blog.
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At 16th Jun 2008, %3Ca%20href="/blogs/profile.shtml?userid=237269" class="comment_username_1033013">Josh wrote:I think this is the interactive service the Mirror means:
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