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On The BBC 2.0
novus ordo writes "BBC has been exploring the 'Web 2.0' approach in its future plans 'to keep the BBC relevant in the digital age.' They have also put an experimental catalogue online. 'This will allow you to find out about any of the one million programmes that the BBC holds in its archive, going right back to 1937. It's a window onto an amazing cultural and national resource.' They have also opened up a competition to completely redesign its home page."
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crystal tips and alistair
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But hey, they have a great disclaimer :
The catalogue is not comprehensive. It does not contain an entry for every programme broadcast by the BBC on TV and Radio since the 1920s. The main exclusions are sport, feature films, other non-BBC copyright programmes (e.g. TV series imported from the USA), some regional programming and programmes which do not exist.
There are places where the networks are not touching,and there are places where they are-Boeing's Lori Gunter
You've got the remember, America as a country if far more right wing than the UK (particularly the popular media). Consequently a "centrist" POV for Brits looks right wing in the US. Personally I think Auntie has a fairly NPOV but I would, being a "left wing" (for the US) uk citizen. -ross
Who cares about your right-wing-american-nutjob sensibilities? BBC is not even left wing by european standards, and 5 billion people are anti-americans.
"The way we can tell it's C# instead of Haskell is because it's nine lines instead of two." -- wadler
If you're outside the UK it won't let you see most things. And if it did, they'd be in realplayer format (don't install realplayer - it's crap).
It's true I tell you, feller at work's next door neighbour read it in the paper.
You meant "left wing" (prob. a typo), other than that this remark is true all over europe. In most european countries, Democrats would well be the right wing and Republicans would be the far right.
"The way we can tell it's C# instead of Haskell is because it's nine lines instead of two." -- wadler
. . .5 billion people are anti-americans.
.that's, well, UnAmerican, that's what that is.
Why that's. .
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The catch is that they want it to have the same color scheme, font, icons, and certain design elements from the Slashdot home page.
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I shall further this informed and relevant debate thus...
I think Fox needs to first get rid its right wing, anti-Europe bias if it wants to be relevant in the digital age. That would be the first thing that needs to be changed.
In this age of left-leaning blogs that can monitor Fox's biases, people will realize how much of an agenda they have.
Although the catalogue is a great source of data it needs interpretation, and that's where sites like mine - http://www.radiolistings.co.uk/ - come in.
I take the data the BBC (and other stations) list, edit it it for readability, and include things like series and episode numbers - things that are essential for any collectors.
Yes, this is a blatent plug for my site.
The first and possibly only thing they should change about the BBC home page is the fact that it's designed to be viewed at a resolution of 800x600. Surely a company as big as the BBC is capable of producing a web site that utilizes all of the screen space available in a browser window?
You know the BBC is not a standard US 'for-profit' corporate - right?
Check out their 'about us' stuff.
Its becoming more and more common for legitimate companies to start a "competition" for one thing or another, its one thing for an FOSS project to hold these competitions or events, but for a "for profit" to hold these competitions seems like either lazyiness (their web developer doesn't want to) or incompetitance (their web developer isn't able to) I mean, honestly, just hire someone to do it
No, it's what we like to call "just a marketing gimmick". In fact, they even address any "ripping off" or "freeloading" concerns on the blog right there. They'll be using any winning design for one day only, as you'd expect from a marketing gimmick.
Also, the BBC isn't a "for profit". It's a corporation founded by royal charter, funded directly by the public via a "TV license fee". While it does own several for-profit entities (such as BBC America), the corporation itself is a non-profit.
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So install Real Alternative instead.
An interesting point from the BBC "Reboot" Q&A considering /.'s recent webpage redesign contest:
Digital Citizen
The BBC provides extensive listings for all channels, covering one week, in the tv-anytime xml format. It's updated every morning.
7 Day Listings
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The French institute called INA (institut national de l'audiovisuel) has opened online archives, with free video and audio content (you can also pay for high quality versions).
It's available here : http://www.ina.fr/archivespourtous/index.php
The Swedish government-owned TV networks are exploring similar options. SVT (as they're called, sorry, not sure if their site is available in Anglosaxon) are working on making available all of their archives over the internet.
A small(ish) selection of the historical archives is available, and shows are available online up to a week after having been aired - but the plan is that one day all of the archives will be indexed and digitized and viewable over the intarweb. There's also rumors that this will be completely free for everyone who lives in the country and pays the state-imposed TV-license.
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who'd install `real crap` on their unix machine anyway ?
Given the quality of RealPlayer for Linux (basically just HelixPlayer packaged with proprietary codecs) I certainly would. I seen the Windows RealPlayer, so I certainly understand your reservations... but HelixPlayer and RealPlayer are remarkably simple clean multimedia players. Well worth the effort.
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He might be referring to simple math.
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Anti-US bias? You are confusing bias with factual reporting. It's something you might not get on Fox News.
I've never seen anyone accuse the BBC of anti-american bias before; probably because the idea is so incredibly stupid. The only real case of a reasonable case for poor quality reporting in the past two decades was "Campbell Dossier", and this wasn't related to America in any real sense.
If there really was any real accusation of anti-american bias, there would have been some kind of report or media discussion. There hasn't been; you're just sounding off because you don't like the coverage.
Have you considered that perhaps the moderation was not for the insults, but for the points they raised? Thought not.
Well... At least the BBC represents the British public even if our government won't.
And it will look like this...
yes, its the world championship snooker at the moment, so BBC2 stops everything for green baize action...
Even if it has a very slight right wing bias, how is Fox News anti-Europe? Because it occasionally hints at not being showing complete opposition to the President?
Stupidity is like nuclear power, it can be used for good or evil. And you don't want to get any on you.
Disclaimer: I am British, living in Belgium and get the Beeb over cable here.
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Probably the biggest benefit is that lack of adverts - it also helps in keeping the other channels amount of ADs down too.
The best programmes (shows) that come out of the BBC have to be their natural history and documentaries - some of the National Geographic stuff is in this calibre I must admit. I don't hold the Beeb up on a pedestal though, but consider the standard to be perhaps a little higher
When you think a randomly selected cross-section of people is showing a political bias.... you might want to re-align your political spectrum or something
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Anti-American means they don't like you. And there are more people in the world than just those living in the US.
Bad analogies are like waxing a monkey with a rainbow.
I'm sorry but you're wrong. People are anti-American because they don't like the way the arrogant and imperialistic way in which the USA behaves, doubly so under George "the moron" Bush.
Bad analogies are like waxing a monkey with a rainbow.
Oh and then there's the Sun, owned by one of the BBC's competitiors (Sky), that just complains because their boss tells them to.
Bad analogies are like waxing a monkey with a rainbow.
That's an investigation of one specific incident and also hardly one that could be called "anti-Semitic" (and definitely not "anti-semetic"). A number of people thought Arafat stood the best chances of negotiating peace with Israel (a far stretch in my opinion), because he had so much loyalty within the Palestinian population. For much of Palestinian history he was the country's biggest political figure, and therefore was seen to represent the struggle for sovereignty, flaws and all. To say that it's anti-Semitic to cry for him is to insult victims of actual anti-Semitism. -A Jew
One of the ironies involved here is that the Palestinians actually are Semitic (and speak a Semitic language), whereas the majority of Israelis are not.
Then there's the quite deliberate confusing of Zionism with Judeism. Even though plenty of Zionists (and supporters) don't even claim to be Jewism, even including a "Jew Haters" (the odd few "Jew hating Jews" too), many Jews are rather indifferent to the whole idea of Zionism and some of it's strongest critics (including those who claim that it is impossible for someone to be both Jewish and a Zionist) are Othodox Rabbi...
Being pro-Palestine or simply against Israeli occupation doesn't make one 'anti-semitic'. Even ignoring the fact that Arabs are also semites, there are Jews (and even Israeli Jews) who are also against the occupation. Opposing Zionism and the state of Israel does not mean one hates Jews. In fact, the only reason Israel was established was because the British and U.S. government didn't want an influx of Jewish refugees after WWII. So the creation of the state of Israel is more anti-semetic than opposing its existence.
And simply being critical of U.S. policies does not make one anti-American or biased. Otherwise you may as well say that the entire world has an 'anti-American' bias. Have you ever considered that maybe you (and your prefered news sources) just have a pro-Bush administration bias?
Lastly, I rather think it's a good thing that BBC journalists aren't expected to conform to what American news outlets consider to be a 'centrist' point of view. Unlike in the U.S., the media is not strictly controlled by conservative elements in the U.K., and similarly, the BBC does not only present the Israel-Palestine issue from the perspective of Israel as American news outlets have a habit of doing. Perhaps you'd like to see reporters be fired just because they may have a different perspective than yours, but the rest of us like to be able to see all sides of the story.
I think the BBC needs to first get rid its left wing, anti-US bias if it wants to be relevant in the digital age.
Rubbish.
Firstly, you're trolling. "you have to be right-wing in order to be relevant" ? WTF, get a life, go back under that bridge, troll, etc.
Secondly, the BBC is paid for by the citizens on the UK via the TV licence tax. It is not even directly controlled or financed by the UK government via tax budgets, but via the licence fee. If Americans don't like what it says, that is largely thier problem, not the BBCs problem, and not the citizens of the UK's problem.
Thirdly, the BBC does a stand-up job of reporting news, far better than, say, Fox or CNN. If anything, they were to easy on the US and UK goverments during the whole "Iraq has weapons of mas destruction" fiasco.
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