28 month ago
plasticbag : My article from a few years ago on developing a URL structure for broadcast radio sites... - Radio 3 was supposed to be the model for a reinvigoration and restructuring of the whole URL space and programme represenation at the BBC, but I hear it got rather screwed up by the iPlayer and similar follies...
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35 month ago
jimray : More on branding of the VaTech shootings - This was a definite low point in broadcast news
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38 month ago
plasticbag : There's an interesting discussion going on on the microformats list about how to depict television and radio programmes - The standard confusions and complexities apply - the distinctions between a broadcast and an episode (where the episode corresponds to something on a tape that can be replayed), and between episodes and the brands that link them...
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plasticbag : An awesome flash representation of the music that's playing on US radio stations (in real time) - Lovely bit of work this, built by the people who are doing a 'rate the music you hear on the radio' application that really reminds me of the Phonetags work we did at the BBC
Rod Begbie : yes.com visualization - See what's playing on radio stations across the USA, in realtime. [via] #
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plasticbag : Mint Digital has published a post detailing some of the things that happened at UGTV '06 - The whole 'making a show of a website' idea has been around for a while though - b3ta being the best example of this in the UK. Sadly unrecognised for most of its innovations as ever.
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53 month ago
Linkorama : E-Mail Is So Five Minutes Ago - At Dresdner, Rangaswami says that among the earliest and most aggressive adopters, e-mail volume on related projects is down 75%; meeting times have been whacked in half.
plasticbag : "E-Mail Is So Five Minutes Ago" - Business Week talks about how the abuse of e-mail as broadcast has led to its redundancy and looks towards IM, wikis and blogs as replacements... - It's all pretty obvious and the tools are useful. I wouldn't be without a decent workplace wiki now. But the aggravating thing is that internal e-mail only got so useless because of corporate insistence on broadcast messaging. Idiots.
François Nonnenmacher : E-Mail Is So Five Minutes Ago
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55 month ago
plasticbag : BBC plans to put BBC One or BBC Two out on the net within the next year - Infrequently mentioned: to go alongside the ten national radio stations (among others) that it already simulcasts online...
jimray : BBC TV channels to be put on net - MyBBC player will only be available to UK citizens, starting next year sometime
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58 month ago
Andy Baio : Google launching online video playback today - based on VLC, no less
plasticbag : Google To Launch Online Video Playback This Monday - "I've confirmed that Monday Google will launch an in-browser video playback feature based on the open source VLC media player. "
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61 month ago
jimray : Good Morning America booker almost arrested for trying to stop an NBC interview with Atlanta hostage Ashley Smith - God TV news sucks - this asshat was trying to score an exclusive interview from a woman who had just been held hostage
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jimray : Multicast Ruling Muddies Waters - The FCC continues to prove just how fucking inept it really is
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plasticbag : BBC news article on peer-to-peer networks and how they're being adopted as an effective distribution mechanism by mainstream media companies - "The BBC has already decided to embrace the technology. It aims to offer most of its own programmes for download this year and it will use P2P technology to distribute them."
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plasticbag : RFC 2838 (rfc2838) - Uniform Resource Identifiers for Television Broadcasts - I should be gripped by this, but it's so banally broadcast-oriented that it's stunning to think that internet people even wrote it. Doesn't even have identifiers for episodes or shows...
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plasticbag : What happens to the water-cooler moment when TV is consumed on-demand? - Michael Sippey on the creation of episode-based micro-communities for people who consume TV episodes after-the-fact...
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plasticbag : But though the big programmes are losing out, the audience isn't watching any less TV (pdf) - "Television viewing has proved remarkably resilient to increased demands on consumers ... and in fact has increased slightly over the last decade (from 25.6 hours per household per week in 1993 to 26.1 hours in 2003)"
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plasticbag : Osama bin Laden has a tape broadcast on Al-Jazeera that seems designed to do nothing but mess with the US election - I can't tell what the effect of this is going to be - whether it will help Kerry or Bush, but it's clearly designed to influence the election.
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