Archive for March, 2006
Thursday, March 30th, 2006
Offline until April 9th
I’m shortly heading to London, and then via Paris to Havana, Cuba for a week’s holiday. I won’t be seeking out Internet connectivity, so it’s unlikely I’ll read any emails between now and April 9th when I’m back. My phone should work, so if you know the number you can try it if it’s urgent.
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Tuesday, March 28th, 2006
Gone (to a )Digital (planet) 28 March
As I walked into studio C21 this afternoon for the first Digital Planet I heard Gareth over the talkback muttering “don’t say Go Digital… don’t say Go Digital” to himself.
And he didn’t. We managed the whole show without inadvertently referring to the old name, and instead luxuriated in the extra two and a half-minutes of [...]
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Saturday, March 25th, 2006
If it’s good enough for Google..
Earlier this week the director of the BBC’s new media division spent a happy few days in Las Vegas.
As far as we know Ashley Highfield wasn’t trying to increase his budget for the soon to be launched myBBCplayer with some judicious bets at the roulette tables.He was there with representatives from Amazon, eBay and Myspace [...]
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Tuesday, March 21st, 2006
No DRM, no cry?
Earlier this week the Westminster eForum held a discussion on digital rights management at which Derek Wyatt MP made some interesting proposals about getting the British Library to lead the debate on how copy protection and rights management should be regulated and managed.
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Tuesday, March 21st, 2006
Gone Digital March 20th
That’s it, then. No more Go Digital on the BBC World Service. From next week when the new World Service schedule starts we will be ‘Digital Planet’.
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Thursday, March 16th, 2006
Gone Digital: over and out
And so it goes. Next week is the last edition of ‘Go Digital’ on the BBC World Service, after four and a half years on air, encompassing shows from Tunis, Geneva, India, Kenya, Mali and – for me, anyway -Venice, California, Naples, Manchester and Cambridge.
From March 27th we’ll be ‘Digital Planet’, a name that is [...]
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Tuesday, March 14th, 2006
What’s up with the billblog
A word of explanation: the old machine that I called ‘bill’ and which lived with my friends at Verity Networks died a couple of weeks ago, so I’ve taken the opportunity to move my virtual home to a Linux installation hosted by Bytemark. You’re here now.
I’ve got a backup of the Wordpress database from [...]
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Saturday, March 11th, 2006
this is not the billblog
Not yet. It will be when we’ve sorted out styles and uploaded the archive…
