Interesting Stuff 2008-07-18
The Â鶹Éç Trust has published Pricewaterhouse Coopers' research "into the economic impact of the Â鶹Éç's publicly funded services on the UK broadcasting and creative sector" [pdf] - sections 5.5 and 13 are the ones to head for first from a bbc.co.uk angle, but you should of course read all 196 pages.
Tom Loosemore, formerly of this parish, on the Ofcom PSB Blog:
So, we have an estimate of the market upside resulting from a licence-fee funded Â鶹Éç, but no numbers for the downside.
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In an Organgrinder post called , John Plunkett looks at hyperlocalness, asking and answering the question:
How often does my Â鶹Éç regional news service mention Hazlemere shopping centre or those nightmare traffic lights near High Wycombe? Never.
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Lots of activity with mobiles: write up the given by the Beeb's Jason DaPonte at the [] and (tagline: "Subverting telecomms from the edge of industry") writes about where he talked to Charlotte and Anthony from Â鶹Éç Switch about ", , , , , , , , , , , , , , plus lots of other stuff" and looked at new initiatives like :
I was amazed at the innovation taking place at the Â鶹Éç especially from the Switch team in the Youth arena.
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The Beeb's Andrew Bowden the bewildering array of food websites with some connection to the Â鶹Éç, including bbc.co.uk/food, , , and - it's as if all the intricate relationships between the Â鶹Éç, Â鶹Éç Worldwide, UKTV, the Open University, etc, have been depicted, in microcosm, in a diagram made of sausages.
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And there's a Freedom Of Information request [btw, did you know about the Beeb's FoI blog? - Ed] with an unwieldy name that's very much on Internet Blog's beat, , that's currently awaiting clarification:
I note that the process you describe leads one to suspect that the Â鶹Éç Trust will find it hard to be perceived as an effective, independent regulator if all FOI correspondance it receives is automatically handled by and thus shared with Â鶹Éç Management - the very people is it supposed to regulate.
Alan Connor is co-editor, Â鶹Éç Internet Blog.
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