Round up: Friday 11 December 2009
Post categories: ´óÏó´«Ã½ Online,ÌýYouView,Ìýinnovation,Ìýround up
| 15:45 UK time, Friday, 11 December 2009
What do winners do? They win.
Digital Revolution are offering you a chance to win things by making a short trailer for the forthcoming series or a short film on the series' themes using the rushes that they've made available on their website. So what do you win?
"Your short film or trailer could win a promo spot on the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Homepage and be seen by hundreds of thousands of people. The winners will also be invited to attend a documentary masterclass at the ´óÏó´«Ã½ and meet with a ´óÏó´«Ã½ Multiplatform Commissioning Executive."
By way of inspiration they've commissioned two pieces: Cassetteboy's mash up and Barry Pilling's stop-frame animation. Both are clever and funny, and that's not something we write very often on the blog.
Shock! "´óÏó´«Ã½ hoodwinks bloggers with promises of links"
Earlier in the week :
" is a ´óÏó´«Ã½ site that tracks online buzz about ´óÏó´«Ã½ shows. Despite being paid for by the licence fee, it's pulling the wool over bloggers' eyes by claiming that, if you link to it, it will link back - but it's the links."
What's the big deal about nofollow you may ask? Malcolm Coles himself (and it's a good explanation so we'll use it):
"When Google sees the attribute (rel="nofollow") on hyperlinks, those links won't get any credit when we rank websites in our search results."
Shownar's product manager Andrew Barron quickly :
"Our decision to add nofollow to these links was to avoid spam and people gaming our site. For the Shownar prototype we are running on a very low moderation staffing level as Shownar's primary aim was to experiment with different ideas and see how feeds and data performed in the real world... Generally the ´óÏó´«Ã½ isn't a fan of nofollow but we followed the lead of sites that can be gamed by spammers (eg Twitter and Flickr) who do use it."
And there is more news on Shownar's future:
Shownar will be retired in a few weeks. The good news is the version we are creating for bbc.co.uk is going to be backed by the moderation support that means we should be able to remove nofollows for those non-commerical blog posts that are significantly about a ´óÏó´«Ã½ programme."Phew!
Canvassing your views
launched this week as a site to keep up to date with the news on project canvas, the "proposed partnership between the ´óÏó´«Ã½, ITV, BT and Five toÌýbuild an open internet-connected TV platform, subject to ´óÏó´«Ã½ Trust approval." On the Internet blog Canvas director Richard Halton invited people's questions and comments and we hope to have a response on the blog shortly. In the meantime we'll let you know if there any Canvas-related announcements.
Research and Development
The ´óÏó´«Ã½ R&D team have been busy on the excellent R&D blog while still finding time to hang out with Maggie Philbin. As the normally laid back ´óÏó´«Ã½ R&Der Ant Miller wrote:
"Yes THAT Maggie Philbin!Ìý She came down this week with to look at our soon to be vacated base.Ìý We'll post up a link to the Click piece when it comes up, but in the mean time she's written some very nice things about us on .Ìý Thank you Maggie, it was a delight to meet you at last."
Some of you would have seen the Radio Labs post on Mooso, the music tagging game with a purpose. Now the R&D blog has joined in with a post on Mooso which goes into great detail on the thinking behind Mooso as well as details on how it was built. Well worth checking out.
But of all that, the most exciting news, for some of you at least, may be the fact that:
"R&D is currently in the proces of recruiting graduate or equivalently experienced engineers for our graduate training program.Ìý Details are available on our careers page...we need skills in a wide range of disciplines, and a blend of rigorous analytical capabilities along with innovative creativity.Ìý Engineering is not the only fruit!"
Paul Murphy is the Editor of the Internet blog. The picture is of Internet blog Towers which looks remarkably like the setting for The Thick of It.
Comment number 1.
At 11th Dec 2009, Kai wrote:Paul, your Thick of It link is broke :-(
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At 11th Dec 2009, Stuart Ian Burns wrote:Paul, did you see this?
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At 13th Dec 2009, Paul Murphy wrote:#1 Hi Kai, I think it's beyond broke. That's what happens when you let a writer produce their own code. I'll fix it and thanks for alerting me.
# Hi Stuart Ian Burns, I have now (so thanks for that). I've had a think and believe I know who to ask, or certainly where to start.
Cheers all
Paul
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At 15th Dec 2009, Stuart Ian Burns wrote:Thanks Paul.
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At 16th Dec 2009, Sarah_Prag wrote:#2 Hi Stuart Ian Burns. Thanks for pointing us to this post (. Feeling Listless makes some good suggestions about offering feeds of all podcast episodes from a given network or brand. This is something we're looking in to, but unfortunately we don't have a specific launch date for it yet.
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At 16th Dec 2009, Stuart Ian Burns wrote:Thanks Sarah. Looking forward to seeing what you come up with.
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At 27th Mar 2010, U14390976 wrote:This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the house rules. Explain.
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At 12th May 2010, U14460911 wrote:This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the house rules. Explain.
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At 31st Aug 2010, malcolmcoles wrote:I see you've followed through on this promise with the new Buzz thingamybob. Am blogging about this for the morning - is Buzz live though? I can see the "about Buzz" pages but can't find an example ...
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At 1st Sep 2010, Paul Murphy wrote:#9 Hi Malcolm
Not sure if it's live at the moment but the link is here
Paul
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