Maggie Brown asks in the Guardian today ‘whether the BBC has become too affraid to take risks?‘. Her piece focuses around the dreaded “BBC Editorial…
One CommentCategory: BBC
Back in October 2010 the BBC announced that BBC Backstage – the developer platform and open data project I had created with Tom Loosemore and…
4 CommentsLike many of its counterparts, the BBC News Website maintains two distinct versions of it’s front page – a ‘domestic’ orientated front page and an…
26 CommentsI live in the USA, and I can’t access the BBC’s stream of John McCain’s acceptance speech… because “the media is unavailable in my territory”.…
11 Comments“Wow, that’s really really slick!” That was my reaction when Tristan first showed me a demo of Apture (which just opened for signups, if you…
4 CommentsGiven that I helped establish (probably) the first developer mash-up competition run by a media organization and also my recent foray into the world of…
2 CommentsBobbie Johnson wrote an interesting article in yesterday’s Guardian about the continued stifling of innovation and general staff frustration within BBC Future Media (the department…
13 CommentsI guess if this headline didn’t end with “in the UK” this news would be getting a lot more attention than it currently is. I…
Comments closedThe BBC has announced that it’s done a deal with YouTube, to put short clips and trailers up on the video sharing site. I actually…
12 Comments(disclosure: I was part of the team who launched backstage.bbc.co.uk, although I no longer work at the BBC. Many of the people around the table…
9 Comments