Interesting Stuff 2009-01-20
Hitwise that following a ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ drama series, the has experienced a traffic hike of 19 times its usual hit rate.
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Gavin and Stacey stars Mat Horne and James Cordon will be featuring in a series of 'webisodes' to accompany their new sketch-show series on ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Three.
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Readers using Linux distribution Ubuntu may find useful for setting up iPlayer Desktop.
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Today marks the inauguration of Barack Obama, and Rory Cellan-Jones discusses how it'll pan out across the web. The ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳, he says, will feature:
Video reactions sent in by users of services like and , and there will be a "mood map" with people around the world invited to say whether they are optimistic or pessimistic about an Obama administration, and their reactions then flagged on the map."
Five Live is also publishing plenty of Inauguration Day pictures on .
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It's all gone a bit hypothetical on the mailing list. Ian Forrester with this scenario:
Say, we had a ton of media assets from a ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ programme which we owned all the rights to and wanted to distribute widely. Not just video, but images, sound, subtitles, metadata about the programme scripts, etc.
How would you 1. Package it? 2. Distribute it? 3. Licence it?
Dave Lee is co-editor, ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Internet blog, ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Online, ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Future Media & Technology.
Comment number 1.
At 21st Jan 2009, Seurat wrote:Cool.
A graph showing that primetime showing of a television programme increases public awareness of a subject, with a subsequent increase in internet traffic.
Can we have a pie chart showing the religious persuasion of Roman Pontiffs next?
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At 22nd Jan 2009, Joe Halliday wrote:Don't be silly, this isn't called 'Things You May Not Have Realised'; rather 'Interesting Stuff'.
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At 13th Sep 2009, U14134634 wrote:This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the house rules. Explain.
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