Round up: Monday 23 November 2009
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| 16:15 UK time, Monday, 23 November 2009
There's lots been said about the iPlayer and the arrival of its upgrade on the both on the blog and . You can even watch a on YouTube. Most recently on the blog Gideon Summerfield from the iPlayer team explained some of the technical background, while blogger David Artiss was pleasantly surprised that he had some and more so that we'd linked to him from the blog:
"I was, however, even more surprised to come in this morning and find that the same post had been referenced on the 91Èȱ¬ website! I suspect they've not seen my update though, where I had constant problems with bandwidth problems and the resultant pausing of playback."
Regular readers will already know (and not just to the postive stuff). My favourite Wii iPlayer quote so far (from the ):
"It's all great news, but since I installed it yesterday, my four year old has made me watch at least four episodes of Peppa Pig, and he's taken a real shine to the Gaelic version of Postman Pat (Padraig Post) from 91Èȱ¬ Alba...!"
Last week Erik Huggers admitted that if the 91Èȱ¬ Trust don't publish their interim conclusions by the end of the year. C21 have also released their .
For burgeoning video editors out there we have two opportunities for you to show what you can do. , the TEDxManchester special, is available for downloading and mashing or if that sounds too energetic you can of the speakers including . The Digital Revolution team who are putting together a TV doc on the web have been making lots of their rushes available under a special licence and will shortly be launching a competition to cut a trailer or short film. (See on Vimeo.) Interestingly the Internet blog notes that of the 25 interview packages available to download so far for mashing there's only one featuring a female interviewee - albeit the indomitable Arianna Huffington.
In case you missed it, there are two new 91Èȱ¬ blogs worth checking out: Web Developer and a new R&D blog. Ant Miller explains the .
And finally, the winner of this week's most interesting concatenation award is Tom Scott for his post: .
Paul Murphy is the Editor of the Internet blog.
Comment number 1.
At 23rd Nov 2009, dukeofearl wrote:Ironically, the last link about Lego and linked data is wrong!
The link should be
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At 24th Nov 2009, Paul Murphy wrote:#1
Doh! A missing " at the start of the url.
Should be fixed now, thank you for that, Paul
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