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Meanwhile, my complaint against your misleading statements grinds on . . .

Congratulations on winning the Webby
award.....

Glad that you've darkened the text (why didn't you do it sooner though?)

Rest of the site still looks rubbish though. Don't forget that the Sun is the UK's biggest-selling paper...

Really like the embedded video. Any idea when the streaming ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ News (Channel) will be in flash too?

I'm a fan of embedded vvideo too, but those awards don't mean anything to me. I think that in all news items, the reports corresponding to them which have been broadcast on the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳'s TV and radio channels should be embedded. The same approach could be adopted with sport too.

This embedded video is a backward step.

It prevents me from viewing the video in a player of my choice.

It means that I can't scroll away, close the page, load new content or switch to a different tab while leaving the video running.

I could do any and all of those with the MMS streams; hence my regarding this use of Flash as a backward step, big enough that I choose to ignore the video (to the extent of causing my browser not to display it).

Providing links to the Flash videos for use in an external player (or a media player plugin) would address this nicely.

I bet you won the award BEFORE you redesigned the website. It used to be dense and compact; now it wastes space.

Given I work in advertising in marketing I understand the need for generating revenue somehow for those viewing this site outside the boundaries of licence payment systems.....

However as an overseas reader/viewer living in China i am outraged that you feel the need to still place 30sec ads before footage of the eathquake victims in Sichuan!!! Even more so because the clip I keep being shown is 'got some good news' from Hyundai..... well no not particularly i have friends who are stuck in cities with no power and water and have lost their families in an earthquake .... and now will definitely not be buying a hyundai thankyou!!!

Come on ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳.... you're content is usually pretty good but can't you have a conscience and actually consider your ad flights and content before bombaring every viewer with unsolicitated promotions????

SO well done on the new website, the awards and all that, and also a big well done for getting the comments section fixed. Registration seems to have brought the numbers down even if you still get idiots like me slipping through the net.

I am just curious to ask if the new system means that the editors cant reply, The 'conversation' that you said this would bring is still one way. Now I accept that some blogs have no comments, they cant reply, But some only have one or two, Surely a quick answer would be achievable.

With the numbers brought down so drastically I would have thought the editors would engage more as they have a smaller, 'audience'.

Not surprisingly this is not the case. Not one single reply across any of the blogs on your main page.

I appreciate very much all the work you guys do at the Beeb but one thing is getting on my nerves a little. You seem to have decided to write acronyms in "proper case" rather than upper case. Acronyms such as "SAT" (Scholastic Aptitude Test) has become "Sat" so in sentences it becomes:
"Sats trouble even the most..."
Who sat what where uh?

This appears to be a blanket policy and has been applied to Pc (Police Constable), Cas (who is this lady Cas and what is she doing with my Citizens Advice Scotland?)

I like anyone else embrace written and spoken language as ever evolving forms of communication but when it gets the point where you aren't communicating effectively you need to take a step back.

So why on Earth have you started doing this? It has been a gripe of mine for a while!