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Online-Publishers.org have a great page that shows the average amount of time Internet users spend communicating, searching, shopping and viewing ‘content’ online. This is broken…
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90% of the time, I’m proud to be working for a broadcaster and internet company (well, organisation) that “gets it”. One that understands the ever emerging opportunities that ‘new media’ affords us. But one that also has the foresight to ensure that the overlap where ‘old media’ meets ‘new media’ is as great and far-reaching as possible – creating exceptional propositions that capitalise on our strengths in both areas. The Creative Archive is a fantastic example of this.
However, there are also times where new collides with old. And I do mean “collide” – with both acting as an apposing force to the other. This is the frustrating 10% of the time where out of fear, ignorance, miss-understanding or perhaps the unwarranted need to self-preserve; ‘old media’ chooses not to embrace ‘new media’.
For the past few months I have been flying high in an environment that ‘gets it’ 100% – for so long in fact, that I had almost forgotten that there was a side that still doesn’t.
Then I attended a BBC News away day last Friday that bought me back to Earth with a bump.
8 CommentsA useful skeleton timeline for producing podcasts by Eric Rice. Interesting ideas about lengths of promos and ordering of stories. Not sure I agree about…
Comments closedBen H wrote about outsourcing some small bits of coding he needed doing in his recent article for the Guardian: “Swift and offshore”. However, this…
3 CommentsThe bike racks here in the BBC Media Village are overflowing. All of the allotted space for bikes on “The Network” (the stupid name for…
Comments closedToday’s announcement that the 2012 Olympic Games will be held in London is great news for the residents of the East End. It’s an area…
Comments closedFor me, the highlight of last night’s Live8 concert has to be Roger Waters reunited with David Gilmour, Richard Wright and Nick Mason for my…
Comments closedWe’re being asked to make poverty history today. But we need to make corruption history first. African governments are some of the most corrupt in…
6 CommentsBeing the “professional blog of Ben Metcalfe”, I’m always slightly nervous of pushing my own distorted tastes in music and film (particularly seeing as they often expose my non-work-friendly “from da street” alter-ego and usually require “parental advisory” – this one is no exception).
However one of my favourite MC’s, Kano, has just dropped his first album and it’s totally off the hook sick (Sofia doesn’t want me to write “off the hook” because she says I sound like Maxwell from BB).
Most of you will probably have never even heard Grime before, particuarlly if you’re outside of the UK. So why not take 2 minutes out and check this out, I’ve included plenty of links to give you a real feel for the scene:
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