I wrote something grumpy for last week’s New Statesman about football, the BBC and pun-soaked platitudes. Here’s how it began: In the early Noughties when broadcasters still bothered to find new uses for the interactive red button, the Beeb began…
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Sir William Garrow And The Power Of BBC Prime Time
A new entry in Amazon’s Hot Future Releases in Business, Finance & Law. In at number nine, and likely to rise and rise in the coming weeks, is Sir William Garrow: His Life, Times and Fight for Justice by John Hostettler and Richard Braby. In…
How ‘Nutter’ Griffin Matched Nobel Obama
While much of the Nick Griffin / Question Time chat was happening on Twitter, some people went straight to the source to express their views. The BBC reported 10,000 comments were left on the Have Your Say section of the…
‘I Have No More Proof Than Anyone Else,’ Says PM-On-Pills Blogger
Ever since Andrew Marr put the medication question to Gordon Brown yesterday, the media has turned the spotlight on the political blogosphere. Was Marr guilty of indulging in some web-based tittle-tattle, on the BBC no less? Had he fallen for another…
Lehman Collapse Showed Power Of Print
A couple of years ago the BBC revamped its news website so when a major story came along it could push aside all the detritus and devote the top of the page to a single story – larger headline font and bigger image.…
Robert Peston: ‘My Blog Lets BBC Own The Story.’
Hat tip to Robin Hamman for highlighting some particularly pertinent parts of Robert Peston’s Edinburgh TV Festival speech that had passed this (un)observer by. Perhaps it was the BBC’s business man’s bust up with Murdoch junior that was the distraction…
News websites 1990s-style
Telegraph.co.uk is indulging in some digital nostalgia with its How 20 popular websites looked when they launched piece published this morning. An enterprising member of the online team has raided the WayBackMachine and dug out screengrabs from big web names including Google,…
Why Ashes 2009 Really Was A Shared National Moment
According to Mark Lawson writing in today’s TV Matters column in the Guardian: These Ashes felt less like a shared national moment because fewer of the nation shared it. There’s no doubt the numbers are compelling – Channel 4 averaged three million…
Howzat! What The Ashes Did To The Web
So, it turns out that we don’t just follow the over-by-over stuff – fingers guiltily poised on Alt-Tab* – when we’re at work. Hitwise’s Robin Goad has been crunching the all-important numbers and it would seem that the Ashes decider…
What We Learned About Online Video This Week
From YouTube to the iPlayer via newspaper sites offering moving pictures, the digital landscape for video already looks well-established. But four years on from the moment we went from Dial-up Britain to Broadband Britain, we still have much to learn.…
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