Interesting Stuff 2008-06-16
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%3Ca%20href="/blogs/bbcinternet/anthony_rose/">Anthony Rose gives a talk on virtual channels, personalisation and - worryingly - a "shoot out" at %3Ca%20href="https://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/news/2008/06/iplayer_to_include_radio_content.html">Broadcast's Digital Channels Conference:
Rose predicted that a lot of the scheduling for these genre clusters will be done by computer but said there will always be a need for human schedulers.
"The endgame is that the linear scheduler isn't quite dead yet. Long live the online scheduler," he said.
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%3Ca%20href="https://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/jun/15/bbc.digitalmedia">James Robinson writes in The Observer on the 91Èȱ¬'s plans to enhance its online local coverage and the familiar admixture of public service, market impact and the 91Èȱ¬ Trust:
It even argues that its enhanced, online offering will drive traffic to local newspaper sites, pointing to a trial in the Midlands 18 months ago which published links to stories from other sources, including %3Ca%20href="https://www.expressandstar.com/">the Wolverhampton Express & Star, doubling the number of hits it received.
%3Ca%20href="https://www.macpredictions.com/2008/06/since-when-did-four-legged-chair-become.html">Graham Bower muses in Mac Predictions on Apple's role in the marketplace for TV delivery:
Apple's US-centric focus is in part to blame. Whilst Virgin Media are doing an excellent job in leveraging their (bizarre) exclusivity with the %3Ca%20href="/iplayer/">91Èȱ¬ iPlayer, Apple has failed to do a similar deal - despite the British-broadcast-monopolist's publicly professed %3Ca%20href="/blogs/bbcinternet/2008/01/ip_to_tv_your_comments.html">interest in the platform.
[Editor's note: other British broadcasters are, in fact, available.]
%3Ca%20href="https://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/msg08998.html">On the 91Èȱ¬ Backstage mailing list, %3Ca%20href="/blogs/bbcinternet/james_cridland/">James Cridland answers concerns about internet-radio-compatibility, talks %3Ca%20href="/blogs/radiolabs/2008/03/coyopa_takes_shape.shtml">Today and chats %3Ca%20href="/blogs/radiolabs/2008/03/coyopa_takes_shape.shtml">Coyopa.
%3Ca%20href="https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/topstories/2008/06/16/no-panic-for-web-drivers-over-fuel-strikes-89520-20608874/">Greig Box Turnbull writes in The Mirror about %3Ca%20href="https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7453326.stm">the Have Your Say fuel map [thanks to Researcher 237269 in the %3Ca%20href="/blogs/profile?userid=237269">comments]:
People power beat the panic out of the strike.
Motorists logged on to an interactive 91Èȱ¬ website to update each other on where to buy fuel.
And the message was clear yesterday that motorists are not panicking.
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Finally, %3Ca%20href="https://open.typepad.com/open/2008/06/i-see-tags-ever.html">Antony Mayfield blogs at Open... about Brandtags, which "asks people to submit words and phrases that come into their heads when confronted with a series of logos", using the 91Èȱ¬ as an example.
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Alan Connor is co-editor, 91Èȱ¬ Internet Blog.
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At 16th Jun 2008, %3Ca%20href="/blogs/profile.shtml?userid=237269" class="comment_username_1033013">Josh wrote:I think this is the interactive service the Mirror means:
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