Posts tagged “bbc”
The BBC seems to be reporting oil price milestones at every round number — though $94 appears to have been quietly skipped.
The BBC's photo editors couldn't resist choosing the most villainous possible shot of Abu Hamza for his trial coverage. The man already has one eye and hooks for hands. How much more sinister do you need to make him look?
A year ago I was paid by the BBC as part of a group called the "Broadcast Assassins" to discuss downloading TV content. Now Wired is crediting that group with inspiring the Doctor Who BitTorrent leak. The reporting is inaccurate, but I'll take it.
The new Doctor Who episode leaked, the BBC publicized it themselves, and I have my own theories about who's really behind that. Now stop reading and go download it.
I told the BBC in March that internet video would replace broadcast TV. Two months later, they launch an internet media player doing exactly that. Coincidence? I think not. Also: replacement teeth are coming, and I found something on the internet that made me feel weird.
A comic sells out hilariously, and BBC employees anonymously defend their site on a wiki complaint page, creating a bizarre, schizophrenic chorus of justifications and rebuttals.
I spent an afternoon advising BBC managers on how young people actually consume media. We don't watch broadcast TV; we download what we want, when we want it. Broadcasting is dying. The BBC's real job is producing quality content, not running channels. They seemed surprised. They shouldn't be.
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The Hutton report was a complete whitewash. Both sides clearly shared blame, yet the conclusions absolved the government entirely. The BBC lost two top executives over what amounts to a journalistic error, while the government faced zero consequences. This threatens BBC independence and leaves me furious.
The BBC announces plans to sell off its technology division, putting 1,400 jobs at risk. On the same day, a power cut takes them offline. Who's responsible for BBC power? The very division they're selling. You couldn't make it up.
Launched dual-cam StalkerVision. Also: the BBC's undercover racism exposé in the police is a ratings grab but solid journalism. Shocked a cop admired Hitler, though it's just the tip of a deeper national racism problem. Could any British institution survive this kind of scrutiny?
Speaking at a BBC seminar tomorrow about how the Internet is overtaking TV. They want me there because I've stopped watching television entirely, just downloading shows instead. There's a free lunch, but apparently an NDA too. I'll share what I can afterward.
Bloggers don't change lightbulbs, they link to discussions about it. Also, the Tories want to shut down the BBC website, which would be a disaster. The BBC provides something the market doesn't: impartial news. Thankfully, the Tories are completely unelectable anyway.
BBC News redesigned their site and it's a mess. It looks like a worse version of CNN, which is itself losing to Fox News. I'd already moved to The Times for its cleaner layout, and this just confirms I made the right call.
Awarding BBC News Online for their hilariously dramatic mouse and keyboard photo. What happens when you hire too many arts students. Also, yeah, internet addiction at work is real. I spent 6 of my 10 weeks at IBM this summer surfing the web.
I found errors in the BBC's Trinidad profile: their map is wrong and they misidentified Tobago's capital. Also, Sun's Java docs calling a DOM a "garden-variety tree" is idiotic. A tree is a tree, not a data structure.
