Round up: Friday 9 October 2009
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| 15:28 UK time, Friday, 9 October 2009
On the Internet blog we spend a lot of our time keeping track on what's being said, discussed and debated about the things the Â鶹Éç's up to in the online and digital space. Often the good stuff is found on people's personal blogs where they get to share aspects of their Beeb work.
On the Managing Editor for the Â鶹Éç's Mobile Platforms shares the slides from his presentation showing some of the things the Beeb's up to in the mobile space as well as Jason's predictions for the next big things in his area.
The that:
"The Â鶹Éç Trust has frozen the budgets of three of the Â鶹Éç's online learning services pending a review of their market impact. The investment freeze follows a complaint from the British Educational Suppliers Association (BESA) which was partially upheld by the trust."Read the Â鶹Éç Trust's findings.
The Â鶹Éç Trust has also released new draft editorial guidlelines for public consultation. The rounds up some of the background to the new draft but wonders:
"How many members of the public actually read through the 190-page document is another question, and obviously it is impossible to say how much attention the Â鶹Éç Trust will actually pay to suggestions."
There's an interesting debate on the use of open codecs developing over on the Radio Labs blog in response to a post on the phasing out of RealMedia on Â鶹Éç services. Elsewhere on the Radio Labs blog there's Duncan Robertson's intriguingly titled post: Fun with Quartz Composer in Snow Leopard and the Â鶹Éç Radio Schedule.
Finally, the team putting together the TV documentary history of the Web currently known as Digital Revolution (working title) are asking for suggestions for a new name. They've also made available rushes of interviews with Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Howard RheingoldÌý under a permissive licence if you fancy editing them into your own Web documentary.
UPDATE (PM): It's just been pointed out to me by my colleague Jonathan that while many of this blog's readers are no doubt interested in the latest findings of the Â鶹Éç Trust (see above) he was rather suprised that we hadn't even mentioned Â鶹Éç4's Micro Men shown last night. It's a comedy drama about inventor Clive Sinclair, ex-employee Chris Curry and the nascent British home computing market of the 'eighties. You can watch it on the Micro Men programme page for the next six days.
Sam Wollaston gave it on the Guardian website and has an interview with its producer and a review which ends neatly with this:
One final thought: before the film was shown, the continuity announcer warned us there will be some strong language; I guess I was the only one who thought, 'Perl as well as 6502 assembler?'
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