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Accessing the BBC News website from Amsterdam presents quite a difficult choice in terms of content vs advertising. View the full-sized screen grab.
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Accessing the BBC News website from Amsterdam presents quite a difficult choice in terms of content vs advertising. View the full-sized screen grab.
April 28, 2010
I’ve been in Amsterdam this week, grappling with my own incompetencies booking travel and accomodation (unlike as well as attending the brilliantly informative and unexpectedly inspiring Next Web conference.
April 20, 2010
There’s nothing like ‘acts of God’ to threaten any kind of carefully thought out plan. It’s a deeply frustrating thing. Be sure to read Kevin Marsh’s account of his trip back from Vegas selling the BBC’s College of Journalism website to the Americans. It’s more amusing than the diary entry learning post which follows.
April 16, 2010
Meet Gregory. He’s the BBC Proms website producer chappy who navigates around his Windows PC desktop using a light-pen and pad. He also has an enormous amount of bits of paper all over his desk.
April 16, 2010
David Mitchell defends the BBC at the Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival 2010.
April 14, 2010
For all the ineptitude, laziness and (in some cases) rudeness I come into contact with at the BBC – really the Corporation is no different from any other organisation, it’s just my expectations which are higher because it’s the BBC – there are times when I meet people for the first time, chat to for… [Read more…]
April 7, 2010
All producers abide by an unwritten rule. Reveal the challenges involved in delivering a beautifully crafted piece of content at your peril. Do so and you risk shattering the illusion. You will expose yourself as a fraud. You’ll be shunned by your media associates.
April 29, 2010
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