Tag: BBC

  • In defence of Twitter

    Top debunker Andrew Orlowski put the boot into Twitter and to poor old Rory Cellan-Jones in a very entertaining way in the tech Private Eye The Register the other day.…

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  • Brand and Ross are innocent

    The Russell Brand show was outstanding radio and didn’t deserve censure. I’m just going to come out and say this because I have a feeling you might not agree with…

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  • Freeing content at the BBC

    I had a bit of a whinge over at Speechification earlier on about the BBC’s content archiving policy. I find it frustrating to say the least that Heather Couper’s epic…

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  • Could the competition referral save Kangaroo?

    Competition regulators could force Project Kangaroo to open its player to all-comers and trigger a renaissance in British video creation: OpenKangaroo? The Office of Fair Trading (“acting decisively to stop…

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  • The BBC common platform debate

    Last Wednesday’s common platform debate at Broadcasting House was a hit. We talked for nearly three hours plus time in the pub afterwards. Mike covered it (live) over at Techcrunch…

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  • Coming to tonight’s Common Platform debate?

    First of all, it’s sold out, so if you’ve not got a confirmed seat I’m afraid you’ll just have to fight your way past three rows of braided Commissionaires (mostly…

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  • What’s the difference between the common platform and the web?

    James Cherkoff wonders (in a comment) if my common platform isn’t really just… well… the web. It’s a good question because the web, of course, is the mother-and-father of all…

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  • Another confirmed speaker for the Common Platform debate

    Jon Gisby, who is Director of New Media at Channel 4, is now confirmed as a panelist in our debate next week about the BBC’s public service obligations—and beyond! (echoey…

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  • A common platform?

    What does the future of public service media look like? What comes after the current crop of public service entities, which are all essentially channels? Could it be a kind…

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  • Is the BBC Trust a Trojan Horse?

    Looks like it, doesn’t it? The history: a short-term crisis (Hutton and then all that premium-rate stuff and the lies about the Blue Peter cat?) produced an apparently innocent change…

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