Archive for 'bbc'
BBC sounds death-knell for left-hand nav
There's a fascinating (and lengthy) post on the BBC's internet blog, setting the scene for a forthcoming 'post-2.0' redesign of its web presence. It's a design geek's paradise - global visual languages, grid systems, typography and colour palettes.
Intriguingly, they start their potted history of the BBC website with a screenshot from December 1997. My own [...]
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BBC iPlayer back on Wii: a tipping point?
The BBC's new iPlayer 'app' for the Wii is now available for download: and it has the potential to do amazing things to UK viewing habits.
Thus far, if you wanted to watch iPlayer via your Nintendo Wii (and your wireless broadband connection), there was a web-based interface, not dissimilar to iplayer/bigscreen - which was fine, [...]
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Why the fork does the BBC need its own jQuery?
Of course it's good news that the BBC's in-house Javascript library, Glow has been released as open source. It's a very respectable chunk of code, with some quite nice built-in widgetry. But why on earth should the BBC have its own Javascript library in the first place? Its 'lead product manager' - itself a worrying [...]
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Our top story: government web video
It isn't every evening that a video clip from a government website features prominently on the main evening news. Except this week.
Last night, it was the Treasury's YouTube clip of Alastair Darling preparing for tomorrow's Budget: nothing too spectacular, nice visual wallpaper for the story. Tonight, the PM's announcement of changes to MPs' expenses - [...]
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David Lammy, Twitter expert
It came as a bit of a shock this evening, when BBC1's The One Show started talking about Twitter, that reporter Gyles Brandreth's first port of call was Kingsgate House on Victoria Street, home of DIUS and minister David Lammy. With traffic up by a factor of three this year already, Twitter's certainly a hot [...]
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BBC anger at DCSF data formats
BBC News website editor Steve Herrmann is not happy. In previous years, the Beeb site has carried full school league table data, as soon as the embargo is lifted at 09:30am. But not this year.
'This is because the government has tightened up on the media's pre-release access to official statistics,' he explains. 'In the past, [...]
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Home Of The Future at High St prices
Never has a nail been hit more squarely on its head than when Charles Arthur wrote his Guardian piece last week about how 'The digital home hub is finally happening':
[Gates and Jobs's] vision is coming true. Except that it's not the computer they thought which is at the hub. It's a rather different one that [...]
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MySociety completes crowd-sourced video markup
Congratulations (hardly for the first time, of course) to the MySociety crew: in less than two months, it looks like their community of volunteers has completed the work to timestamp the 42,019 video clips supplied to They Work For You by BBC Parliament, covering the entire 2007-8 parliamentary session. Hero status is rightly accorded to [...]
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Govt comms: better, but years behind
Flicking across the news channels tonight, I bumped into recorded coverage of Wednesday's Lords Communications Committee. You had the BBC's Frank Gardner and Sky's Tim Marshall, plus a couple of other senior journalists, giving their frank opinions on the state of media, politics and government. I only caught the last few minutes; it looks like [...]
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Here are your winners
It took a couple of days, but the list of winners from this week's New Statesman awards has finally emerged. As predicted, MySociety didn't go home empty-handed, with recognition for their FOI site, What Do They Know? And it's good to see Patient Opinion getting recognition in the Community Activism category - their approach to [...]
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