Lord Birt on iPM
Say what you like about John, now Lord Birt - and believe me, some people in the ´óÏó´«Ã½ don't hold back when it comes to the former Director-General - but there's a consensus that the one major positive achievement of his time in charge is the very thing you're looking at now.
No, he can't claim any direct credit for the iPM blog, but he can look back with pride at his involvement in the early days of the ´óÏó´«Ã½ on the internet.
As ´óÏó´«Ã½.co.uk celebrates its 10th birthday this Saturday, Lord Birt has been telling iPM about the birth of the service:
To celebrate bbc.co.uk's 10th anniversary, the beta version of the new website has been officially launched.
The ´óÏó´«Ã½ says: The redesign marks the first stage of the roll out of new features aimed at delivering a reinvented bbc.co.uk as part of plans to improve access to ´óÏó´«Ã½ online content. The new page is made up of customisable and moveable widgets that allow users to determine the layout of the page and give them a greater level of control over what information they want to see.
As well as the tailoring the page to their own requirements users can, for the first time, listen live to ´óÏó´«Ã½ radio directly from the homepage and browse the evening’s ´óÏó´«Ã½ tv schedules.
Tony Ageh, controller, internet, said: ‘These exciting developments mark an important stage in the work the ´óÏó´«Ã½ is doing to aggregate content more effectively and give users more control over how they experience bbc.co.uk. Enabling users to organise components of the homepage around the subjects that are most important to them increases its value and relevance, while still remaining a powerful expression of the ´óÏó´«Ã½ on the internet.’
Have a go yourself by clicking on the image below:
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