bbc.co.uk Service Licence: Reaction
Post categories: ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Online
| 12:10 UK time, Monday, 2 June 2008
So while the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳'s words are all about "protecting'' the market, its actions are all about "owning'' the market.
Edward Roussel of the Telegraph in the Guardian's (and a good discussion in ).
(answered by ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ trustee Patricia Hodgson), from ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ News.
"Report reveals bbc.co.uk is £36m over annual budget": from the Guardian.
Never mind whether the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ will produce 'ultra-local' news hubs, it is Google's infinite budget, spotless brand, and seemingly completely free hand in the UK market that poses a bigger commercial threat to all of the UK's web industry
at Currybet.net.
David at Webometric Thoughts the Trust's conclusion that "bbc.co.uk is an excellent service that is highly valued by users... is definitely the most obvious finding ever" and some stats for traffic he's had from bbc.co.uk.
Alfred Hermida at reportr.net
"Good news for websites - ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ told to link out more!": Blogstorm .
Nick Reynolds is editor, ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Internet Blog.
Comment number 1.
At 4th Jun 2008, paulcanning wrote:I'm glad to see others picked up on the linking issue - though this, like other issues, doesn't seem to be raised in the Trust's reports in the context of benefits for users.
But what seems to have been entirely missed was this:
"We are [also] not convinced that ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ management's ambition to be 'part of' the web rather than 'on it' by embedding ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ content on other sites, such as YouTube, plays any role in acting as a 'trusted guide' to the wider web. Rather, this is mainly a way of marketing ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ content to those who might not otherwise access it."
And this is a bad thing?
I did put this question in to Hodgson but wasn't picked. I'd be interested to know if this affect your plans to 'eventually' enable embedding, Nick.
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