Interesting Stuff 2008-06-11
Post categories: round up
| 10:52 UK time, Wednesday, 11 June 2008
But iPlayer is only the beginning of the story. Because when that iPlayer moment is over, the programme disappears and we are still having to apologise to the audience. And yet those programmes do still exist and increasingly may be available elsewhere on the web...
That fact formed part of the thinking behind this - a permanent page for every episode of every programme the ±«Óãtv has ever broadcast.
From a speech by Jana Bennett (Director ±«Óãtv Vision) at the in Canada. [NB: this is part of the /programmes work blogged about here, here and here.]
...note the slightly Communist-era feel of the red and black Today page has been replaced by a bright and breezy white and blue front.
says The Guardian's Jemima Kiss in .
...it's easy to forget where the ±«Óãtv's on-demand programme offer all began; with the ±«Óãtv Radio Player, which is 6 years old today (or rather, it would be, if it hadn't already been rebadged iPlayer).
The ±«Óãtv's Dan Taylor at Fabric of Folly.
: unpacking a box with Olinda in at Flickr.
Nick Reynolds is editor, ±«Óãtv Internet Blog.
Comment number 1.
At 11th Jun 2008, Hymagumba wrote:I want an olinda in a box so badly. Go send me one, go on *flutters eyelashes*
Although I'd probably need two, so I can use the social module. Well maybe six of them, you know, to test it properly.
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Comment number 2.
At 11th Jun 2008, SavyGamer wrote:I dream of a day when the ±«Óãtv is no longer a TV broadcaster, but a huge, regularly updated bittorrent tracker, filled with high quality DRM free content, made available to the people who have paid for it's creation in whatever format best suits them.
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