A while ago, Mike Arrington from TechCrunch called for the dissolution of the BBC at the FOWA conference. Today the BBC announces it is pulling the plug on the ‘BBC Jam‘ project - an online learning resource for school kids.
He has some regrets about what he said and asks today what people in the UK […]
File under ‘WTF’ and ‘ill-informed’.
[update: March 14th 2007: Long Live the BBC! ]
Apparently, during a panel at yesterday’s Future Of WebApps Conference, TechCrunch’s Mike Arrington said ‘The BBC should be dissolved’. (see video here from BBC backstage’s Ian Forrester)
Listen here (edited) “The BBC Should Be Dissolved” : Mike Arrington : FOWA Feb 2007
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I remember when this happened, while I was working at BBC News. I thought it was terrible that a journalist should get killed, and even be in harms way to such an extent to deliver a story. I was even asked if I minded the vast amount of hours I was putting in, to prepare […]
So, there I was last night,hanging around on the ‘RSS Platform’ in Nooribeom, watching the fearsome news of the ‘Real World’ fly by, when none other than Hamlet Au, the ‘embedded journalist’ in Second Life (though not at Linden Lab any more) on New World Notes dropped by to check out the BBC NewsScreens I […]
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Another demo of something I have been meaning to try for ages. After dusting off some old actionscript skills from back in the flash5 days, I was able to get a screen reading RSS feeds. WooHoo!!!! Animated!
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Here’s a demo of something I have been meaning to try for ages. After dusting off some old actionscript skills from back in the flash5 days, I was able to get a screen reading RSS feeds. Yay to that!!
Whoops! The BBC reports that AT&T have let hackers get to the credit card deets of over 19,000 customers! Eeek!
Great stuff from the comedy genius of Adam & Joe
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I thought I’d show you where that feed came from that Dave Winer pointed to yesterday (since there was no link to the site )
Over on podcast.com, you will see many folders in the podcast directory you see there. One of the icons is a green feed icon : clicking it will display […]
Nice to see the fresh podcast feeds from the BBC are working nicely for Mistah Winah!
A fresh feed can be generated of all the latest podcasts in all the feeds in any folder.
NOW - don’t forget folks - the directory you currently see at podcast.com is MY user account. Here is a different test […]