I don’t know how many State-owned broadcasters there are left in the world (Zimbabwe, Kazakhstan, North Korea, Italy…) but can you imagine any one of them having the resources or the courage or the commitment to new forms to attempt anything like this? I’m very proud of the Beeb and of the people inside it who are pushing backstage.bbc.co.uk (and the other open source projects I know to be going on in there). Keep your eye on the feed for this one.
In which I try, after 25 years of blogging, to drop my ironic stance a bit.