4 month ago
plasticbag : "Erik Huggers made BBC new media boss" - I don't know the man at all There was clearly some succession planning going on here, though, which doesn't entirely fill me with joy. Sigh.
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7 month ago
plasticbag : Even the ludicrous hagiography from the BBC can't dull my joy at Highfield finally leaving the BBC - Okay. I'm lying. It pisses me off. My personal belief is that you'll see his name in biographies in twenty years time as the man whose lack of clue resulted in the BBC's inability to adapt to the digital age.
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plasticbag : Ashley Highfield is to leave the BBC. It won't be a shock if I tell you that I think it's about time. - The only problem is who follows him. There are some particular candidates that I think would do the job well, but I'm afraid I suspect they won't end up with the job.
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17 month ago
plasticbag : Ashley Highfield is apparently looking towards Web 3.0 at the moment. He seems to have skipped over 2.0 pretty cheerfully. Lots of verbiage here, little substance. - He's now looking towards 'the world of the semantic web, the Internet that is intelligent'. A search for intelligence closer to home might serve the BBC rather better...
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18 month ago
plasticbag : Ashley Highfield has defended the idea that the BBC is Britains R&D lab for the internet... - I'm afraid I have no comment on this one.
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19 month ago
plasticbag : 'Bobbie Johnson on where the BBC's attempt to lead the new media revolution went wrong' - Fascinating piece of commentary and investigation by the Guardian.
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plasticbag : A rather frustrating article from The Independent about Ashley Highfield - I think my opinions are relatively well-known, so I think I'll keep my mouth shut on this particular one.
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28 month ago
plasticbag : Bend it like Gardner - Someone from the CBC has responded to my post the other day about the BBC, indicating some of the stuff that happened on their side of the pond.
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28 month ago
plasticbag : It seems only fair to point to Ben Metcalfe's response to my post about Ashley Highfield - Although he rather seems to confirm my case - he declares backstage as underfunded, consisting mostly of RSS feeds, not impacting on the way the organisation builds its applications and hamstrung by organisational bureaucracy...
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31 month ago
plasticbag : The Guardian reports on the BBC's alleged 'radical revamp of website' - In my experience the best things the BBC produces don't tend to be the things that get announced in this way. Vaguely appalled by the rebranding of MyBBCPlayer to BBC iPlayer. Might as well just call it BBC Playr and get it over with.
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plasticbag : Ashley Highfield interviewed by Media Guardian - "If there is a more muted mood blowing through the BBC corridors, someone has forgotten to tell the ebullient director of new media, Ashley Highfield."
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