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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Let’s try seeing if we can send out some positive energy here, seeing as it appears to be in the air. Happy Dave Heals Day!
Wow. I just caught up on all this TechCrunch UK - Sam getting fired - LesBlog/LeWeb/LeWhatever - hoo […]