BBC and Web 2.0

The BBC have plans to make their web site more “Web 2.0” over the next few years. The recent Reboot competition was part of this initiative. Now, they’re trying to pin down exactly what they mean by “Web 2.0”. In order to help with this, they’ve started a discussion on the Backstage mailing list. There… Continue reading BBC and Web 2.0

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Searching Online Newpapers

Over the last couple of weeks, Martin Belam has been reviewing the search functionality on UK newpaper web sites. He has now published his conclusions. The article also links to detailed individual entries on each paper surveyed. Some of his findings are quite surprising. Papers who aren’t seen as particularly web-savvy did well in some… Continue reading Searching Online Newpapers

Spoilers

I’m not as bothered by spoilers as many people that I know. I don’t turn over quickly to avoid the “coming next week” clips at the end of TV programmes. But I do think that the Doctor Who spoilers that have been all over my usual newsfeeds this morning are taking things a bit too… Continue reading Spoilers

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Shock Treatment

Shock Treatment has been released on DVD. If you’re not aware of the significance of this event then you’re not as big a Rocky Horror fan as you like to think you are. There’s also the obligatory collectors edition with stupid amounts of extra stuff.

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Root Of All Evil Complaints Dismissed

Richard Dawkins’ programme The Root of All Evil? generated 23 complaints to Ofcom. The latest Ofcom bulletin is published today and it deals with these complaints (the relevant section starts on page 10). In summary, the complainants considered that the programme: showed a negative portrayal of religious beliefs and called religious faith “a virus”, and… Continue reading Root Of All Evil Complaints Dismissed

Serendipitous Scheduling

Just catching up with some American TV shows that we recorded last weekend and stumbled across some seredipitous scheduling by Channel 4. At 8pm last Sunday on E4, in ER a doctor called Debbie (Mary McCormack) was working at an IDP camp in Darfur with John Carter. At 9pm over on More 4[1] in the… Continue reading Serendipitous Scheduling

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Da Vinci Dilemma

Nice review of The Da Vinci Code on the BBC blog network. Two categories of people will probably be disappointed by the film: those who have read the book and those who have been looking forward to the movie. For all its flaws, the book is vastly better than the film. And I say that… Continue reading Da Vinci Dilemma

The Human Rights Act

The Sun‘s latest campaign is to get the Human Rights Act revoked. As usual with their important campaigns like this they had a phone-in poll last week. As usual the vast majority of Sun readers (well the ones who could be bothered to tear themselves away from page 3 and pick up the phone) agreed… Continue reading The Human Rights Act