BBC and Its New Vision

The BBC has changed its programme commissioning structure and now expects TV programme proposals that are cross-platform. Here’s what STAGE has to say.

Director of Vision Jana Bennett said that the new format provided a “one-stop shop” for commissioning across platforms and added that programming would need to work on the web, mobile phone and new […]

On The History of Bad Deals

The media industry is full of them as the recent Yahoo, local newspapers deal shows.
Media companies attract some of the sharpest brains in the world, the only trouble being they’re sharp on style and ego rather than intelligence and substance. One of my neighbours has her pension tied up in Time AOL shares - you […]

Online Crafts Selling

And this via Mashable: Tt’s like a cross between Flickr and eBay, offering handmade goods for sale through an online marketplace. Over the last few weeks, they’ve been focused on building the market in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, but an English version is available and it’s being expanded.
What is it? DeWanda.

More Action in the Ad Space

This via Alarm:clock. Nugg.ad is a German online ads initiative that just got itself cash. Why is action needed on online ads? It’s pesronalised, trackable, ROi calculable ets, isn’t it? No says Nugg:

“More than 99% of the advertising found on the internet is not clicked on, and nearly as much of it is quickly forgotten. […]

Dutch Experiments of the Cultural Kind

:: FaceCulture ::

Faceculture.nl has a slightly exaggerated view of its novelty - it is hardly the first multimedia magazine on the web. It is perhaps the swiftest to exploit the growing need for video content. Having the benefit of an Amsterdam base they’re able to pick up interviews with minor celebs and niche songsters, as […]

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Future of the Internet

The EU is hosting a day’s mini-conference on the future of the Internet on December 15th.
Any longer term EU watchers will recognise a few of the names there as well as a really backward piece of EU planning. In fact the EU is currently getting things so wrong it’s a wonder there isn’t some […]

Webflow - In A Can

I was puzzling over night about James Corbeett’s idea that Lost and blogs have a similar narrative feel: good blogs anyway. This morning the Sunday Times had a long piece about Lost and they emphasised the fact that Lost presents continuing mysteries and inexplicable but seemingly connected situations, a bit like six and a half […]

Ambassador Blog

It’s rare to get somebody who has been prominent within the diplomatic community blogging openly about the experience. I put Craig Murray’s The State Without post as the lead news headline on Wripe.net today because he has powerful criticisms not just of the war on terror (which is something I feel more ambivalent about) but […]

TV in Second Life

They already have movies so why not TV channels, with user generated content, of course. Rivers Run Red are bringing in Channel 4 and Sci-Fi Channel, Big Brother was lined up already and presumably there will be lots more. My one concern - it’s an easy way to look like you get it.

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