Round up: Wednesday 4 November 2009
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| 15:24 UK time, Wednesday, 4 November 2009
You'll no doubt recognise the face above as belonging to Rory Cellan-Jones, the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳'s technology correspondent who can be found posting most days of the week on the dot.life blog. Rory made it into last week's Round up with his post about Ubuntu (372 comments and counting).
The photo was taken at a get together of ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ bloggers where Rory described how the blog has changed many of the ways he works, not least the way that stories develop through feedback from users either on the blog or . Similarly the blog's an ideal outlet for stories that don't make it onto TV or radio because they're more specialised or perhaps too difficult to explain within the confines of a news bulletin.
Tonight's Moral Maze on Radio 4 asks 'when does a popular and spontaneous protest become mob rule?' with particular reference to how people campaign using social media. If you'd like to join in ( naturally) there are some suggestions over on the Radio 4 blog.
Project Canvas awaits a decision about its future from the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Trust (and following the Trust's 'Nein danke' to Open iPlayer nothing is certain). The Telegraph used a FOI request to find out how much had been spent on the project to date: . The answer is the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ itself has spent £715,140 and the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Trust "nearly £400,000 purely on consulting on whether to give its approval".
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"The ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳'s original submission [to the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Trust] put the cost of Canvas to the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ at £16.6m, based on four partners being involved, but this projection has now been revised to £24.7m. The ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ hopes, however, to have at least six partners in place, a move that would reduce the cost to the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ to £16.4m."The ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Trust issued a further statement about Canvas today and you can read all of ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ management's submissions to the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Trust here.
The ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ launched this week what we at blog towers are calling a (or a "portal of parliaments" - exec ed) due to its panel of eight feeds from the UK's national political institutions and the European Parliament but the press release is, more mundanely, calling Democracy Live.
as the "worst-kept secret in the history of mankind" the iPlayer is due to appear in a closed Beta on the Freesat platform at the end of November. Apparently it was the fact that "all freesat receivers have had an Ethernet socket fitted to them from launch" that gave the game away.
And finally, over on the other side of ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Internet blog towers there's the Blueroom. The and it's definitely worth having a look at.
Paul Murphy is the Editor of the Internet blog.
Comment number 1.
At 4th Nov 2009, cping500 wrote:I note the Trust has invited everyone (note: not just people who pay the license but visitors... the lot... who are in the UK (that is in brief who the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ is supposed to serve)to give their views on the latest twist in the Canvas... for surely that is what stakeholders means.... Or perhaps not... just some people with a financial interest perhaps?
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Comment number 2.
At 4th Nov 2009, PaulBillo wrote:Just a quick question regarding the Democracy Live website; as a Londoner, is there a reason why the London Assembly is not included on the website?
³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Parliament show 40 minutes worth of questions to the Mayor every so often which is interesting, so I was wondering if this could be included or if it is planned in the very near future...
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Comment number 3.
At 5th Nov 2009, artesea wrote:So how do those of us with Freesat get in on this iPlayer beta? (Pretty please)
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Comment number 4.
At 5th Nov 2009, Matt Sims wrote:A bit of an insult to say that some people are experiencing problems with iPlayer on Wii. A system update on the Wii means that NOONE with an up to date system can watch the iPlayer.
My Sky HD box has an ethernet port on the back, whats the chances of getting iPlayer via that?
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At 5th Nov 2009, Paul Murphy wrote:#2
Hi Paul_Billo
I asked Mark Coyle, Editor, Political Programmes about getting the London Assembly on Democracy Live. He said:
"Once Democracy Live has bedded in, we plan to look at how we might reflect the work of the London Assembly , particularly the monthly Mayor's questions, which is already carried by ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Parliament."
So watch this space.
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At 5th Nov 2009, PaulBillo wrote:@Paul Murphy
Thanks for that Paul, thanks for finding out that for me from Mark so quickly; much appreciated. All the best.
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