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Alan Connor | 15:07 UK time, Tuesday, 26 August 2008

merlin_tess.jpg, , and report Simon Nelson's announcement of "series stacking" on ´óÏó´«Ã½ iPlayer (of no more than 15% of all television content [explanation from the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Trust]; series to include , , Little Dorrit, Survivors, The History Of Climate Change, Bruce Parry's Amazon, Clone, Walking With Beeching and The Story Of Maths):

Now, you'll be able to join a series half way through following a friend's recommendation and catch up on all the previous episodes - or watch them all in one go over a weekend.
Series stacking marks a key development in our strategy to let audiences view our programmes whenever and wherever they want.

Simon is also quoted in this release about adding ´óÏó´«Ã½ Four, C´óÏó´«Ã½ and CBeebies to the official live streams offered for ´óÏó´«Ã½ Three, the and ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio, as in The Guardian.

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"The ´óÏó´«Ã½ faces strike action at its research and development centre at Kingswood Warren", reports .

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There's been to the post here by iPlayer chief Anthony Rose, ´óÏó´«Ã½ iPlayer Goes H.264. Dan Rayburn of StreamingMedia :

Bottom line, journalists need to do a much better job of fact checking and not run a story just for the headline or because they feel since other bloggers ran it, they have to also.

So who's been saying what, aside from and ? There's some speculation about the ´óÏó´«Ã½ and ISPs with eye-catching images [click on the thumbnail for more] at , and a response from Internet Blog's editor Nick Reynolds on .

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"Despite Team GB's massive medal haul," , "it is the ´óÏó´«Ã½'s website that is the star of the Beijing Olympics." All the details are in John O'Donovan's post below.

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Over at the MediaGuardian Edinburgh TV Festival, Ashley Highfield, formerly of this parish, has been talking about what , and those of us not in Auld Reekie can including the , Armando Iannucci's call for the and . [Apologies for the lack of direct links to the video - the site doesn't work that way and instead offers you .FLV files to save - clearly this online video malarkey is never going to catch on!]

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And from Beeboid bloggers, the new "Portfolio Executive, Social Media - ´óÏó´«Ã½ Vision", , and ´óÏó´«Ã½ Jersey's is .

Alan Connor is co-editor, ´óÏó´«Ã½ Internet Blog.

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