Interesting Stuff 2008-10-06
The holds over today's front page - and pages two and three - for puzzling out .
Polly Toynbee gives an ; Owen Gibson and Maggie Brown look at and the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Trust; Owen Gibson and Richard Wray look at ; Emily Bell looks at and, most pertinent to ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Internet Blog, Jemima Kiss has a piece called which quotes our blogger-in-residence and current ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ internet controller Tony Ageh on the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳'s twin roles as programme maker and distributor:
There must be a way to achieve both of these outcomes, without harming the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳, that would massively increase the viability of some SMEs and invigorate the entire UK ecosystem. Given what's going on in the world, this would be a very good time for such an injection of resources and support.
Stephen Brook also seeks .
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Telecom analyst "HD Online: Can it be a Commercial Reality?" at Bafta:
There followed two very interesting presentations, by Anthony Rose and Andy Quested from the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳. Anthony Rose seemed to express fatigue with the iPlayer bandwidth debate, and stated his hope that the industry could now move on to consider issues around ISP incentivization and monetization.
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crunches some ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ subscriber numbers and asks whether YouTube is "atrocious at serving news content in an intelligible way":
Yet it's equally certain that what is presented through YouTube, the de facto leader in varietal Web video, is not grabbing much traction. At least not the sort of traction and recognition that stalwarts like the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ and AP and others tend to register in the minds of consumers.
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Charlotte McEleny writes at about "an online teaser to promote a documentary to be shown at the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Electric Proms":
The ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Electric Proms aims to support new music filmmaking and this year has also commissioned three short films inspired by music tracks from Wild Beasts, XX Teens and Roots Manuva.
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Journalism student discerns in one of the Beeb's :
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Internet Blog would like :
Launched in October 1988, and currently run on behalf of ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ World Service by VT Communications, the station is transmitting ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ World Service programmes on shortwave to an estimated audience of up to nine million listeners across East Africa.
[For more detail, the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ press office has a handy list called ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ In The Seychelles: Noteworthy Dates.]
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Finally, :
Please people, don't try and fill your time reading the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳s Internet Blog. Its boring, and to read it I'd need a grey suit and a desk with files on it.
Well, it's a big internet and other accountability are . Are you still here?
Not that we're caving into these demands, but as a public service, here is the Electric Proms video referred to above:
Alan Connor is co-editor, ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Internet Blog.
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