Radio Pop: social radio listening from BBC Radio Labs (1)
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Today we launched Radio Pop, a social network around BBC radio. Its a project which has been around for over a year now and its great to finally get it out for people to start playing with. Listening to BBC radio through Radio Pop gives you some (hopefully) interesting information and what you’ve been listening to and what your friends have been listening to. When you hear something you really like you can ‘pop’ it ...
Top Gear Invades London, Takes Tower Bridge With Tank [Top Gear] (2)
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Self-promotion is something the boys over at Top Gear have never had a problem with, and as part of the build-up to Top Gear Live, they've pulled out another stunt ready to become an instant classic: Driving a tank across the Tower Bridge following a line of supercars. Why'd they do it? Although initially we thought maybe Clarkson's ego finally convinced him an invasion of London made sense or perhaps Captain Slow finally found something ...
Media mendacity on Taiwan, August 31, 2008 (1)
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President, mofo!The BBC still refuses to call Taiwan's elected leaders "president" in their headlines:Huge rally against Taiwan leaderI was there, and I agree that it was huge:See a bird's-eye view of this location in this article(Click thumbnail to enlarge)But the caption beneath the BBC video on that page contains this serious underestimation:Thousands of opposition supporters have taken to the streets [...]"Thousands," as in "somewhere between 2,000 and 20,000? The speakers onstage at the event said ...
Could ‘No Heroics’ Be the Best New Show of the Fall… That You Can’t Watch? [2008 Fall TV Preview] (2)
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The Fall 2008 television season is almost upon us, but in all the coverage you’ll be seeing here at FSR and elsewhere one show is conspicuously (and criminally) absent. Imagine if “Heroes” and “Cheers” met in a night club, went back to “The Office,” and had mad, sloppy sex on the copy machine. The result would be “No Heroics”, a new series premiering September 6th on Britain’s ITV2. The show follows four friends and superheroes ...
BBC Worldwide Plans Ad-Supported Music Service (1)
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BBC Worldwide is working on an ad-supported music service that would offer free streaming or paid downloads of songs and videos from the BBC archives, including live performances from its “Top of the Pops” and “Live Lounge” on Radio 1, New Media Age reported. The service is expected to launch next year with at least 1,000 tracks, and the BBC is reportedly negotiating rights with record labels including EMI. Ads on the streaming content would ...
BBC to use 'series stacking' >> Mashable (10)
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The BBC announced today that it would start offering its TV shows on its iPlayer service for longer than the seven days it originally offered them. According to the organization, its “series stacking” initiative is one that should see more people watch its shows. Prior to this announcement, BBC only allowed shows to air for seven days before it took them down. But after realizing that most customers didn’t approve of such a policy, it ...
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Finally, the BBC starts to realise the potential of its iPlayer, releasing entire seasons of BBC-produced material instead of a poxy seven-day time limit.
How Buildings Learn (2)
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How Buildings Learn--Stewart Brand, 1997, BBC, 6 Parts; Flow, The Low Road, Built For Change, Unreal Estate, The Romance of Maintenance, Shearing Layers. "What happens after buildings are built? Why do some buildings get better over time and others get demolished? Stewart Brand says architecture is a prediction, and all predictions are wrong, so the more monumental the architecture, the more wrong the building is. The buildings that thrive are those that can adapt to ...
BBC Extreme Weather (in Windsor) (1)
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BBC Extreme Weather (in Windsor)232 degrees in Windsor's was a slight error on the BBC Weather Map this morning...Blame the GremlinsScreenshot and news source:http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7585641.stm(non-UK users may not be able to see the video)Mapperz News Blog
Another Red Dwarf episode? (1)
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Filed under: Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, Programming, Pickups and Renewals, Reality-FreeRobert Llewelyn, best known to Red Dwarf fans as the android Kryten, has confessed on KTSC-TV in Seattle that the BBC has commissioned a one-hour special of Red Dwarf to film in October. For those keeping track, Red Dwarf hasn't been on television since 1999.This may be a mistake. On one hand, eight seasons of the show was beating a dead horse. It stopped being good ...
BBC Worldwide plans online music/video store (1)
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BBC Worldwide plans to launch its very own ad-supported online music service, offering music lovers access to the broadcaster’s huge archive of audio and video music content. The move means TV shows like Top of the Pops, coverage of Glastonbury Festival or the Proms, and all-time music classics such as the Old Grey Whistle Test will [...]
BBC will keep episodes online longer (4)
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Filed under: Internet, Video Beginning September 13th you will be able to watch your favorite BBC shows online, all the time. In the past, the BBC would post shows to the iPlayer and keep them up for only 7 days. The new format will use series stacking, which basically means as each new episode becomes available, it will stack on top of old episodes. All episodes will remain available online so you will have the ...
BBC to Use ‘Series Stacking’ to Increase Online Viewership (11)
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The BBC announced today that it would start offering its TV shows on its iPlayer service for longer than the seven days it originally offered them. According to the organization, its “series stacking” initiative is one that should see more people watch its shows. Prior to this announcement, BBC only allowed shows to air for seven days before it took them down. But after realizing that most customers didn’t approve of such a policy, it ...
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Finally, the BBC starts to realise the potential of its iPlayer, releasing entire seasons of BBC-produced material instead of a poxy seven-day time limit.
BBC logo design evolution (4)
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The history of BBC television logos dates back to the 1950s. They were first used by BBC to differentiate their channels from one another. Here are some examples of the older BBC logos along with further resources for more details. BBC can trace its roots back to the year 1936 when it became the world’s first broadcaster of a regular high-definition TV. The first attempt at proper branding dates back to the 1950s when the ...
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no ha cambiado mucho, pero en el fondo se evidencia "crecimiento"
Move Over, Goblin Shark: Robots Are Scarier (2)
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I told you. I told you robots would kill us all. This is a clip from a new BBC show, The Wrong Door, which is about robots and how much they want to hurt us. And speaking of the wrong door, I accidentally opened my roommate's after grabbing a snack in the middle of the night. Hello anime comic, hello penis in hand! Hello awkward silence, lifelong scarring, new roommate wanted ad. The Wrong Door: ...
Moving beyond 'multimedia' (2)
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I wrote to someone just the other day that "I have a problem with the term 'multimedia.'" Just as I have a problem with "citizen journalism." Now I see that the Press Gazette reports that the Press Association (UK) is phasing out "multimedia:" Multimedia editor John Angeli, who joined PA from the BBC in 2006, takes the new role of head of content, responsible “overseeing the integration of content across text, photos, video and graphics”. ...
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One again, Steve and I are of a like mind. I've been saying this a lot lately, too: "The major breakthroughs would come as "onliners" moved up the ladder to take senior positions at media companies...."
Men At Work (1)
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Caution Cameragod writes to us from New Zealand noting: Ok so tell two men they each have to race dig a road. One gets a 10 year but still working fine old bulldozer and the other a brand new state of the art ergonomic shovel… the guy with the shovel is not going to win no matter how good a craftsman he is and if you tell him a poor craftsman blames his tools you ...
The Wrong Door: If Terry Gilliam Directed Transformers as a TV Variety Show [Robots] (13)
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Leave it to the BBC to introduce a show about robots attacking humans and generally making a mess of the landscape that's both funny and tailor-made for the ADHD audience. The Wrong Door is a violent, live-action Robot Chicken prone to the same breezy matter-of-factness that made Terry Gilliam's Python interludes both funny and horrifying. Check out the clip above, where a computer takes revenge on a frustrated user, and after the jump, where the ...
The Wrong Door: If Terry Gilliam Directed Transformers as a TV Variety Show [Robots] (3)
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Leave it to the BBC to introduce a show about robots attacking humans and generally making a mess of the landscape that's both funny and tailor-made for the ADHD audience. The Wrong Door is a violent, live-action Robot Chicken prone to the same breezy matter-of-factness that made Terry Gilliam's Python interludes both funny and horrifying. Check out the clip above, where a computer takes revenge on a frustrated user, and after the jump, where the ...
Doctor Who to be a movie? (1)
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Filed under: TV on the Bigscreen, Doctor Who, Reality-FreeSteven Moffat, the upcoming showrunner for the hit Brit sci-fi television series, has hinted at a big-screen version of Doctor Who. Upon review of the article, I can only conclude that someone took an offhand statement made by Mr. Moffat and ran with it. Perhaps they're just mentioning it to gauge fan interest in such a project.Rumors will fly, of course. Doctor Who movies have been attempted ...
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Here are some of the things I have been reading this week . . . INVESTING & TRADING • The Reluctant Bulls (Barron's) http://online.bar.... stocks probably won't make much progress before year's end. But they're a better bet than most, say leading Wall Street strategists. • The Fannie & Freddie Question (WSJ)http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122005562753985195.html See also Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac: A Damage Report (BusinessWeek) • Monolines, Back on Track? (MarketBeat) http://blogs.wsj.... • Credit Seizing as Banks ...Shared by atul (70)Contribute comment
