Interesting Stuff 2009-01-05
Happy New Year everybody!
It's time for resolutions. For most, it means more exercise, less cake -- but not Anthony Rose. :
Provide an 'adaptive bitrate' solution in ´óÏó´«Ã½ so that no matter whether you have a 300Kbps 3G connection or a 50Mbps connection, ´óÏó´«Ã½ iPlayer will serve you the best quality video that your personal internet connection can sustain at that instant, including full HD streaming if possible. The video should never stutter or stop, and should smoothly adapt to changing bandwidth conditions. When we and others get this right, then IP-delivered TV will take a leap in quality, reliability and widespread uptake."
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This is a few days old now, but in case you missed it, it's really worth checking out this really exciting demo from Journalism Labs:
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Those of you who are a part of the mailing list may have read about the confusing way some programmes are listed on the ´óÏó´«Ã½ website. Why, for example, does the Top of the Pops programme page say there are no episodes coming up? The TV programme, as we know, doesn't run anymore -- but on on the World Service, TOTP is still going strong. Jaime Tetlow, designer at ´óÏó´«Ã½ Future Media and Technology, explains:
Getting down to the nitty-gritty of our internal data structure we'd probably say that the International World Service 'Top of the Pops' and the ´óÏó´«Ã½ One 'Top of the Pops' ARE different programme 'brands' but belonging to the uber 'franchise' of 'Top of the Pops'... although we don't have 'franchise' in our data structure yet."
It would be the same for the 'franchise' Doctor Who and it's various incarnations: ´óÏó´«Ã½ One's 'Doctor Who', Radio 7's 'Doctor Who', ´óÏó´«Ã½ Three's 'Doctor Who Confidential' etc, etc..."
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Over the Christmas period, the 's Stephen Glover . His thoughts were challenged by Giles Wilson on the ´óÏó´«Ã½ News Editors Blog.
Today, the (NUJ) of economics editor Paul Mason. Paul is NUJ rep for the programme, and says that "pyjama bloggers" cannot replicate the peer review of a real newsroom:
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Finally, has launched a group blog to conincide with Composer of the Year 2009. Jessica Duchen will be blogging about Mendellssohn, Denis McCaldin about Haydn, Rick Jones on Purcell and Suzanne Aspden is blogging about Handel.
Dave Lee is co-editor, ´óÏó´«Ã½ Internet blog, ´óÏó´«Ã½ Online, ´óÏó´«Ã½ Future Media & Technology.
Comment number 1.
At 6th Jan 2009, DStuart wrote:I totally agree with Stephen Glover,
the ´óÏó´«Ã½ would do well to follow the Daily Mail's lead: no more opinion before the facts, let's have opinion that flies in the face of facts.
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Comment number 2.
At 6th Jan 2009, Briantist wrote:Ah, you missed the answer to the multi-frachise explanation "Getting down to the nitty-gritty of our internal data structure we'd probably say that the International World Service 'Top of the Pops' and the ´óÏó´«Ã½ One 'Top of the Pops' ARE different programme 'brands' but belonging to the uber 'franchise' of 'Top of the Pops'... although we don't have 'franchise' in our data structure yet."
That was "Which of course the audience simply do not, and should not have to, care
about, ever."
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Comment number 3.
At 11th Jan 2009, Yahweh wrote:I'm sorry, but since when has the concept of fact ever been first in a Daily Mail piece?
I'm sure if Mr Glover was capable of setting up his own blog, it would be fact-filled, even if it had the same content as the biased ´óÏó´«Ã½ blogs covering the same story. (well, biased if you believe the Daily Mail)
How would Mr Glover react if it turned out Matt Drudge was a reporter for a news channel, and let slip his cause celebre story via his blog rather than 'usual' channels?
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Comment number 4.
At 13th Sep 2009, U14134634 wrote:This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the house rules. Explain.
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