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New York Times publishes allegations that PM's media adviser 'actively encouraged' unlawful practice while editor
The prime minister's media adviser, Andy Coulson, freely discussed the use of unlawful news-gathering techniques while editor of the News of the World and "actively encouraged" a named reporter to engage in the illegal interception of voicemail messages, according to allegations published by the New York Times.
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New York Times publishes allegations that PM's media adviser 'actively encouraged' unlawful practice while editor The prime minister's media adviser, Andy Coulson, freely discussed the use of unlawful news-gathering techniques while editor of the News of the World and "actively encouraged" a named reporter to engage in the illegal interception of voicemail messages, according to allegations published by the New York Times. Coulson, who resigned as editor of the News of the World in January 2007 after its royal correspondent was jailed for intercepting voicemail messages, has always insisted that he had no knowledge of illegal activity when he edited the paper or at any time as a journalist. He told a Commons select committee last year: "I have never had any involvement in it at all." The New York Times website published a trail to a story due to appear in its Sunday magazine. It made detailed allegations likely to bring intense new pressure on Coulson and the Metropolitan police force, which stands accused of favouring Rupert Murdoch's newspaper group by cutting short its investigation, withholding crucial evidence from prosecutors and failing to inform victims of the newspaper's crimes against them. Coulson declined to comment on the allegations. The News of the World and Scotland Yard have denied all the charges. Coulson resigned after the imprisonment of his royal reporter, Clive Goodman, and a private investigator, Glenn Mulcaire, for "hacking" into the voicemail messages of eight public figures. When the Guardian revealed last year that the scandal involved other journalists at the paper and numerous other victims, Coulson said he had nothing to add to earlier denials of involvement, and the Conservative leader stood by him. David Cameron said: "I believe in giving people a second chance." The New York Times, which has had an investigative team at work on the story since March, is citing two former News of the World journalists who specifically claim that Coulson was directly aware of his reporters' use of illegal techniques. An unnamed former editor is quoted as claiming that Coulson talked freely about illegal news-gathering techniques, including phone-hacking, and that he personally had been at "dozens, if not hundreds" of meetings with Coulson where the subject came up. "The editor added that when Coulson would ask where a story came from, editors would reply 'We've pulled the phone records' or 'I've listened to the phone messages'." In addition, Sean Hoare, a former reporter who used to be a close friend of Coulson, is quoted as saying that when he worked with Coulson at the Sun, he personally played recordings of hacked voicemail messages for him and that later, when he worked for Coulson at the News of the World, he "continued to inform Coulson of his pursuits. Coulson 'actively encouraged me to do it', Hoare said". Hoare, who was sacked from the paper at a time when he had drink and drug problems, says he personally listened to the voicemail messages of celebrities such as David and Victoria Beckham and that he has spoken out now because he believes it was unfair for Goodman to get all the blame. Coulson told the Commons media committee last year that he had never even heard Mulcaire's name and that Goodman had been the only reporter involved: "I am absolutely sure that Clive's case was a very unfortunate rogue case." The New York Times claims to have spoken to a dozen former News of the World reporters and editors who say that phone-hacking was "pervasive" in Coulson's newsroom. "Everyone knew," according to an unnamed senior reporter. "The office cat knew." Most former reporters are unnamed, but Sharon Marshall is named as having witnessed hacking when working under Coulson from 2002-04. "It was an industry-wide thing," she said. The paper says that Coulson ran a highly competitive newsroom "with single-minded imperiousness". Former News of the World journalists claim that there was a "do whatever it takes" mentality and that reporters were told to "get the story, no matter what". "They described a frantic, sometimes degrading atmosphere in which some reporters openly pursued hacking or other improper tactics to satisfy demanding editors," according to the New York Times. The paper gives a specific example of the involvement of an editorial executive: "Matt Driscoll, a former sports reporter, recalled chasing a story about the soccer star Rio Ferdinand. Ferdinand claimed he had inadvertently turned off his phone and missed a message alerting him to a drug test. Driscoll had hit a dead end, he said, when an editor showed up at his desk with the player's private phone records." Driscoll was later dismissed and awarded £800,000 by a tribunal, which found that he had been bullied by Coulson. Bill Akass, managing editor of the News of the World, dismissed the New York Times claims as "unsubstantiated". He said: "We reject absolutely any suggestion or assertion that the activities of Clive Goodman and Glenn Mulcaire, at the time of their arrest, were part of a culture of wrongdoing at the News of the World and were specifically sanctioned or accepted at a senior level in the newspaper." The New York Times goes on to quote unnamed sources from the Met suggesting that its inquiry into the phone hacking was hampered by a desire to avoid upsetting Britain's biggest selling newspaper: "Several investigators said in interviews that Scotland Yard was reluctant to conduct a wider inquiry in part because of its close relationship with the News of the World." After a raid on Goodman's desk in August 2006, according to the New York Times, "several detectives said they began feeling internal pressure. One senior investigator said he was approached by someone from the department's press office, who was waving his arms in the air, saying 'wait a minute, let's talk about this'." The investigator, who has since left Scotland Yard, added that the press officer stressed the department's "long-term relationship with News International". The investigator recalled furiously responding: "There's illegality here, and we'll pursue it like we do any other case." Scotland Yard says that operational decisions are made by police, not by press officers. Former journalists told the New York Times that when Scotland Yard raided Goodman's desk, two senior journalists "stuffed reams of documents into trash bags and hauled them away". Police did not interview any other reporter or editor apart from Goodman. The material seized from Goodman and Mulcaire included paperwork which potentially implicated three named journalists. None was interviewed and, as the Guardian disclosed last year, the police failed to pass key paperwork to the Crown Prosecution Service. The New York Times quotes an unnamed former senior prosecutor who was "stunned to discover later that the police had not shared everything. 'I would have said we need to see how far this goes' and 'whether we have a serious problem of criminality on this news desk', said the former prosecutor." When the case came to court, police identified eight victims of the hacking. However, the New York Times claims that the officer responsible for the inquiry, the then assistant commissioner Andy Hayman, had been shown a "target list" of names and numbers taken from Mulcaire's home which ran to eight or 10 pages and which "read like a British society directory". The Met told prosecutors that it would approach all known victims, but failed to do so. One who was approached, the then Respect MP George Galloway, told the New York Times that police warned him that his voicemail had been intercepted but refused to tell him who was responsible. Scotland Yard denies cutting short its inquiry or being influenced by its relationship with the News of the World. The Press Complaints Commission was criticised after two inquiries into the affair failed to find evidence of wrongdoing other than that originally presented by police. After revelations in the Guardian, the Commons media select committee held a second inquiry into the affair last year. Its report expressed concern "at the readiness of all of those involved – News International, the police and the PCC – to leave Mr Goodman as the sole scapegoat without carrying out a full investigation". Coulson said tonight: "I absolutely deny these allegations." guardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
charltonbrooker: Oooh RT @arusbridger: Here's the Nick Davies digested read of the extraordinary NYT investigation of phone hacking http://bit.ly/dme5GK
02.09.2010 02.01.45
Wossy:
guideguardian: Andy Coulson discussed phone hacking at News of the World, report claims http://gu.com/p/2jdve/tw
01.09.2010 23.53.00
shezzavague: RT @tom_watson: Guardian have the story. Up to us to RT as no other UK newspaper will run it: http://bit.ly/9fmOcI"
01.09.2010 21.57.23
benoonbenoon: RT @tom_watson Guardian have run story: http://bit.ly/dme5GK I bet no other newspaper will. Surely the BBC will have to now? Up to us to RT
01.09.2010 21.49.23
dickdotcom:
wilsondan:
sambrook:
jemimakiss: RT @tom_watson Guardian have run story: http://bit.ly/dme5GK I bet no other newspaper will. Surely the BBC will have to now? Up to us to RT
01.09.2010 13.47.56
nevali:
guardiantech: Here's the Guardian's digested read of the extraordinary NYT investigation of phone hacking by NOTW http://bit.ly/dme5GK #metgate
02.09.2010 02.22.33
SDBrook:
Glinner: Scotland Yard may've colluded with Murdoch to scupper phone hacking investigation; only Guardian & NYT thinks it's news. http://fwd4.me/c0L
02.09.2010 01.42.49
arusbridger: Here's the Nick Davies digested read of the extraordinary NYT investigation of phone hacking http://bit.ly/dme5GK
02.09.2010 01.32.28
meeware:
delineator: the Met police force "stands accused of favouring Rupert Murdoch's newspaper group by cutting short its investigation": http://bit.ly/dme5GK
02.09.2010 01.14.16
tom_watson: Guardian have the story. Up to us to RT as no other UK newspaper will run it: http://bit.ly/9fmOcI <-I'm taking this further later today.
02.09.2010 00.56.49
jangles: RT @tom_watson: Guardian have the story. Up to us to RT as no other UK newspaper will run it: http://bit.ly/9fmOcI <- Re mobile hacks by NoW
02.09.2010 00.56.29
amayfield:
bengoldacre: Whatever, maybe Coulson is vile: but Scotland Yard colluding with Murdoch is criminal and serious http://dlvr.it/4ZLnR
01.09.2010 16.46.02
Glinner:
megpickard:
katebevan:
charlesarthur: Important: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/sep/01/andy-coulson-phone-hacking-allegations Did Andy Coulson discuss phone hacks at NOTW?
01.09.2010 14.41.07
janemartinson: guardian's take on the NYT investigation Andy Coulson discussed phone hacking at News of the World, report claims http://gu.com/p/2jdve/tw
01.09.2010 14.22.00
mediaguardian: Report links Cameron's media adviser to phone hacking http://bit.ly/9GGEJi
01.09.2010 14.13.17
nevali:
tweetminster: "Coulson discussed phone hacking at NotW. PM's media adviser 'actively encouraged' unlawful practice" http://bit.ly/bCWYZ0 - The Guardian
01.09.2010 13.56.35
JoshHalliday: “@tom_watson: Guardian have the story. Up to us to RT as no other UK newspaper will run it: http://bit.ly/9fmOcI”
01.09.2010 13.53.03
JoshHalliday:
davorg:
jaggeree:
mrchrisaddison: RT @tom_watson Guardian have run story: http://bit.ly/dme5GK I bet no other newspaper will. Surely the BBC will have to now? Up to us to RT
01.09.2010 13.41.49
bounder:
tom_watson: Guardian have the story. Up to us to RT as no other UK newspaper will run it: http://bit.ly/9fmOcI
01.09.2010 13.40.12
Apple chief executive Steve Jobs ups company's social media game with Ping – a music recommendation and sharing feature that has been added to the latest version of iTunes
Apple has ditched the CD in the iTunes logo, upgraded its iPod range and revamped Apple TV, as we learned last night. Chief executive Steve Jobs also upped Apple's social media game with Ping – a music recommendation and sharing feature that has been added to the latest version of iTunes, iTunes 10.
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Apple chief executive Steve Jobs ups company's social media game with Ping – a music recommendation and sharing feature that has been added to the latest version of iTunes Apple has ditched the CD in the iTunes logo, upgraded its iPod range and revamped Apple TV, as we learned last night. Chief executive Steve Jobs also upped Apple's social media game with Ping – a music recommendation and sharing feature that has been added to the latest version of iTunes, iTunes 10. Users with an iTunes Store login (there are 160 million of those worldwide, and they are the engine behind Apple's money-making content machine) can now click the 'Ping' tab in iTunes, create a profile and begin following and being followed by like-minded music fans. However, initial reviews of Ping have not been flattering. No-one I follow had a good word to say about it: @Moleitau: OK, Ping is terrible so far *apart* from being able to follow Rick Rubin and find out he digs Arvo Pärt @scobleizer: "The Who." Fail. "Beatles." Fail. "Elton John." Fail. Just what kind of musician IS in Apple's iTunes Ping? @myspace wins. @DamoBiddles just downloaded iT 10 and 'ping' - monstrous. buggy. evil. Also seems weird being built into an application UI. not great so far.
A music-orientated social network is a great idea because Apple has a captive and very active audience among its iTunes user base. Privacy settings are simple – share everything with anyone, share a bit with people you approve or don't share at all. Where Twitter is all things to all people, Ping could become the default network for music chatter – gig reviews, album recommendations and so on – one of those niche social networks we thought might take off a few years back. But there are problems, and not just that recommending Katy Perry and US to everyone is not a good idea. At startup, you can only pick three genres of favourite music; I picked singer-songwriters, blues and alternative. Where would you classify Katy Perry under those? Because that's what I was served up. Those of us used to Last.fm, among others, expect far more from music recommendation. It is a strange experience using a social network locked within a tab of an already-busy programme. If I wasn't already (occasionally) using iTunes for music there would be zero incentive for me to use Ping at all. And I use iTunes more for apps than music... where's the social network for apps? Apple's modus operandi seems fundamentally opposed to the nature of social networking, which is all about openness. Without importing existing networks from Twitter or Facebook (inviting friends through Apple Mail is not enough), there's a significant investment of time needed to set Ping up. Now social networking is more mature, there's less appetite for putting in that groundwork – and why should we have to when our networks already exist? Look at the success of Twitter, built on third-party development and off-site interaction. Ping could have pulled in existing intelligence about artists and public profiles of followers. It could have populated user profiles with your most listened-to tracks; a few album covers aren't enough for data-loving music fans. It could have thrown up the most listened to or downloaded tracks through iTunes in real-time. Buy Songkick or something, FFS. Where is everybody? It's static, detached, and outdated. Perhaps we'll revisit it when it grows up. A poor effort, Apple. guardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
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02.09.2010 07.57.19
dickdotcom: "It's static, detached, and outdated. Perhaps we'll revisit it when it grows up. A poor effort, Apple." http://bit.ly/9tVcse GDN on Ping
02.09.2010 04.21.02
jemimakiss: MediaGuardian >> Apple's Ping - a capsule review http://bit.ly/cHcNMi
02.09.2010 03.39.21
guideguardian: Apple's Ping - a capsule review from @jemimakiss http://gu.com/p/2jd42/tw
02.09.2010 03.36.32
simonphopkins: RT @ChrisHDJones: Ping - not going down so well: http://bit.ly/9fYfS2
02.09.2010 04.12.42
theunthinkables: RT @ChrisHDJones: Ping - not going down so well: http://bit.ly/9fYfS2
02.09.2010 04.12.41
Says jemimakiss:
jemimakiss:
jemimakiss: RT @arusbridger "Coulson knew all about phone hacking in his newsroom". NYT investigation. http://nyti.ms/cjdehk
01.09.2010 23.50.38
si_lumb: RT @tom_watson: Read this New York Times article, just gone up, on phone hacking. Shocking. http://nyti.ms/co8Vg0 << Newspapers are evil.
01.09.2010 13.50.47
lloydshep: RT @arusbridger: "Coulson knew all about phone hacking in his newsroom". Exhaustive 6k word NYT investigation. http://nyti.ms/cjdehk
01.09.2010 13.48.37
charlesarthur: The killer para in the NYT story on NOTW phone hacking is the final one. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/05/magazine/05hacking-t.html?src=me
02.09.2010 06.48.19
janemartinson:
Aiannucci: I gather the BBC is not running with the big Andy Coulson story? http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/05/magazine/05hacking-t.html?src=me
02.09.2010 06.34.34
tom_watson: @todayjustin Has your editor read this in the New York Times? http://nyti.ms/co8Vg0
01.09.2010 23.13.58
Glinner: Here's the NYT story on Coulson http://tinyurl.com/3x468s5 Why was the Guardian the only UK newspaper to chase this story?
01.09.2010 16.35.28
mattsays: RT @BBCCollege The British Tabloid Phone-Hacking Scandal - NYTimes.com http://nyti.ms/9uu4M5 <but why do we rely on US journos to report it?
01.09.2010 14.08.40
tweetminster: The original NYT piece of the NotW phone-hacking investigation: http://nyti.ms/bvy1Xm
01.09.2010 14.05.07
mattsays:
JoshHalliday:
tom_watson: '“I’ve been to dozens if not hundreds of meetings with Andy” when the subject came up' http://nyti.ms/ci2wu1
01.09.2010 13.15.59
BBCCollege: The British Tabloid Phone-Hacking Scandal - NYTimes.com http://nyti.ms/9uu4M5 ... a long read, worth every second
01.09.2010 13.14.14
paulbradshaw: RT @tom_watson: Read this New York Times article, just gone up, on phone hacking. Shocking. Shocking. http://nyti.ms/co8Vg0
01.09.2010 13.08.54
janemartinson: So much for quiet news day RT @arusbridger "Coulson knew all about phone hacking in his newsroom". NYT investigation. http://nyti.ms/cjdehk
01.09.2010 13.08.37
tom_watson: 'Coulson “actively encouraged me to do it,” Hoare said.' http://nyti.ms/d2jEMO
01.09.2010 12.49.07
tom_watson: Read this New York Times article, just gone up, on phone hacking. Shocking. Shocking. http://nyti.ms/co8Vg0
01.09.2010 12.45.00
paulcarvill: also, Coulson is a MASSIVE cock RT @arusbridger "Coulson knew all about phone hacking in his newsroom," NYTimes say http://nyti.ms/cjdehk
01.09.2010 12.22.27
arusbridger: "Coulson knew all about phone hacking in his newsroom". Exhaustive 6k word NYT investigation. http://nyti.ms/cjdehk
01.09.2010 11.54.30
Says philgyford:
Really, Ping? You could know more about my listening habits than anyone but Last.fm and you just recommend me artists who paid to be there?
philgyford: Really, Ping? You could know more about my listening habits than anyone but Last.fm and you just recommend me artists who paid to be there?
02.09.2010 03.01.05
tomcoates: Webb and I were wondering why Apple hadn't bought last.fm six years ago. Seems like they figured it out now too, finally.
01.09.2010 10.45.52
smagdali: @whiteafrican ha. Last.fm must have been quaking for a minute there until they started laughing.
02.09.2010 07.50.03
andypiper: @sxa555 I certainly don't think Ping has anything over last.fm - rather less in fact.
02.09.2010 05.32.27
phae: @leeky oh wow. last.fm logged out/without sub is such a massive sellout. hadn't seen that before.
02.09.2010 04.04.36
freecloud: So, music gurus - Ping is the latest Social Music service, as opposed to Last.fm and Blip.fm. What is better that makes it sustainable?
02.09.2010 01.54.30
davewiner: Kevin Spencer is a last.fm user who wishes Apple had bought it instead of CBS. http://r2.ly/4sbv
01.09.2010 15.33.18
nevali: @RobertAndrews not really… “social web” has a horrible UX. always has. hence proliferation of Twitter clients and Last.fm toys…
01.09.2010 13.07.04
JoshHalliday: RT @djgarethm: @JoshHalliday Oh, you mean Last.fm and Spotify Social? :P
01.09.2010 11.34.35
Scobleizer:
antderosa: iTunes adding Ping, a social network for music : follow friends music listening activity, sort of an embedded last.fm in iTunes
01.09.2010 10.43.25
nevali: well, there goes Last.fm
01.09.2010 10.42.05
Good design is simple, reducing complex tasks to straightforward sequences of elegant interactions, making sure that there is no unnecessary step in the way.
The big design challenge for the next version of iPlayer was how to create this simplicity in light of more features and functionality without overwhelming our audience.
Let's consider the two basic tasks: find and play. The goal is to minimise our audience's time spent on the first task while maximising their time spent on the second one;.. show all text
Good design is simple, reducing complex tasks to straightforward sequences of elegant interactions, making sure that there is no unnecessary step in the way. The big design challenge for the next version of iPlayer was how to create this simplicity in light of more features and functionality without overwhelming our audience. Let's consider the two basic tasks: find and play. The goal is to minimise our audience's time spent on the first task while maximising their time spent on the second one; ultimately discovery is just a means to enable people to watch their favourite show, which is why they come to the iPlayer in the first place. Thus, the primary design challenge was to elegantly weave the new functionality and features into the iPlayer fabric while keeping the user interface simple. The following four design strategies informed our solution framework: NavigationWe recognised that watching TV and listening to the radio are two different activities that respond to different user needs. The previous version of iPlayer mixed radio and TV content on each page. However, user data showed that very few people used the iPlayer for both at the same time. Radio and TV iPlayer use peaked at different times of the day and had little overlap. (Table 1 most likely overstates the overlap as the number reflect hardware not users). In other words, very few people are indifferent to whether they watch TV or listen to the radio when they come to the iPlayer. This makes sense as watching TV and listening to radio are not perfect substitutes; TV is an immersive experience that tends to get the audience's undivided attention while listening to the radio tends to complement other activities and is a less immersive experience. People come to the iPlayer to either watch TV or listen to the radio. Therefore, we decided to make TV and radio the top navigational choice. The two pages, however, are identical in terms functionality and look and feel; it's only the content that differs. The TV page is the home page as more people come to the iPlayer to watch TV than listen to the radio. As a matter of fact TV and radio are the only two top navigational choices down from five in the previous version. This reduces V3 to three key pages: TV, Radio and media player. Fewer pages imply less navigation between pages and therefore less clicks to find content. The radical simplification of top-level navigation implies, however, that most of the navigation has to take place in context and in page which poses different challenges which will be discussed next. BrowsingCollapsing Home, TV Channels, Radio Stations, Categories and A to Z into one page required us to rethink how content is accessed and bundled. Our design guidance came from considering the three primary discovery modes that we identified: browsing content, finding missed shows and exploring content of a certain type. The design of the TV and Radio page therefore consists of three parts that directly respond to the three user needs: the drawers on top of the page allows users to discover shows that they might not know about; the EPG on the lower left half of the page allows users to find what they missed; and the categories module on the lower right hand corner enables users to browse content by type. The drawers enable all scanning behaviours, combining four different sources for content discovery: Featured (editorially selected), For You, Most Popular and Friends. Each of them has a different flavour that might appeal to different users at different times. As it is impossible to know beforehand what might be of interest to the users, they can easily switch between the different sources. Upon arrival the drawers are partially open to reveal the available options. As soon as they interact with any of the drawers, the chosen one expands to show more content. As soon as another drawer is selected, the focus shifts accordingly. The drawers are a playful and efficient way to surface content, making the best use of the limited screen real estate. Earlier design treatments considered having four different modules, each containing one of the sources. However, it became clear that that solution would break the simplicity of the navigation. The EPG and the categories module, on the other hand, are more utilitarian by nature. The users know what they are looking for; the primary design challenge is to enable users to navigate the EPG or the categories and to get them to the searched item as quickly as possible. PersonalisationV3 personalisation features consist of For You, My Categories and Favourites. The different features are revealed over time as users engage with the content rather than all at once potentially overwhelming them. Favourites accompany the users throughout their iPlayer experience giving them universal access to their favourite shows at all times. Like a shopping cart it is pervasively accessible on top of the page connecting discovery - where shows are added - and watching - where they are consumed. ![]() Image 6: TV Favourites in open state My Categories are woven into the categories browsing module, in essence bookmarking the ones of interest to the users. Once users have chosen their favourite shows and categories and new content gets surfaced in the For You drawer, discovery requires less active engagement: users will always be only one click away from accessing their favourite BBC shows. Less time spent discovering means more time enjoying. ![]() Image 7: Categories The new carbon fibre look and feel of V3 replaced the shiny look of V2 while keeping the distinct and iconic black and pink of the iPlayer. The new "materiality" of the interface gives the interface depth and texture that adds dynamic to animated components such as the drawer. ![]() Image 8: Carbon Fibre look and feel details To underline the selected state in the top navigation a visual element inspired by the old radio dial was introduced while a streamlined font and color hierarchy was created to maintain a simple user interface. In a nutshell V3 offers new functionality in a new user interface that aims to make it easier for our audience to find what they want to watch or listen to. Streamlined navigation, new functionality and a new taxonomy will enable our audience to find more quicker giving them more time to enjoy the content. So what's next? We keep working to improve the experience with the goal to enable our audience to spend less time looking and more time enjoying on all platforms. The new iPlayer on mobile devices with Favourites launched recently and will soon launch on the other platforms as well. Fabian Birgfeld is Head of Product Planning, BBC FM&T
danielheaf:
sophiebr: BBC iPlayer Beta: Less is More: new post on #BBC Internet blog: http://bbc.in/cVlGDv
02.09.2010 02.53.26
ChrisHDJones: BBC iPlayer Beta: Less is More: new post on #BBC Internet blog: http://bbc.in/cVlGDv
02.09.2010 02.13.11
BBCiPlayer: BBC iPlayer Beta: Less is More: The big design challenge for a new iPlayer was how to create this simplicity in li... http://bbc.in/aGkjQv
01.09.2010 10.22.59
BBCRD: RT @bbccouk: BBC Internet Blog: BBC iPlayer Beta: Less is More: Good design is simple, reducing complex tasks.. http://bbc.in/aGkjQv
01.09.2010 10.02.48
theunthinkables: RT @ChrisHDJones: BBC iPlayer Beta: Less is More: new post on #BBC Internet blog: http://bbc.in/cVlGDv
02.09.2010 04.34.24
drewb: RT @ChrisHDJones: BBC iPlayer Beta: Less is More: new post on #BBC Internet blog: http://bbc.in/cVlGDv
02.09.2010 02.15.50
Briantist: #Free #TV #news BBC iPlayer Beta Less is More - BBC iPlayer Beta: Less is More http://ow.ly/18Pyea
02.09.2010 00.22.43
Says psmith:
@noodlepie agree 100% with you Paper.li suggestions. I don't really see the point in it as it is
psmith: @noodlepie agree 100% with you Paper.li suggestions. I don't really see the point in it as it is
02.09.2010 05.35.49
qwghlm: @badgergravling If it's s/o I recognise but not follow that's for a reason... ;) And spamming is not best way to attract new paper.li users
02.09.2010 04.13.00
qwghlm: @badgergravling If I follow the names mentioned, it will appear in my paper.li won't it? Else I'm not going to be interested anyway
02.09.2010 03.30.29
qwghlm: @jopkins What @wadds just said. What makes it worse is that paper.li is a genuinely useful service, but this spam makes it such a turn-off
02.09.2010 03.25.46
Dan_10v11: @noodlepie Do you think it works better including lots of random #rwanda links? Because you could just make it a paper.li of @kigaliwire.
02.09.2010 03.19.29
noodlepie: Five improvements to make paper.li genuinely useful for niche news - http://bit.ly/caixgC
02.09.2010 03.07.58
noodlepie: Is there any practical use for a paper.li paper created solely from the random mishmashmosh of people you follow?
02.09.2010 02.30.33
jangles:
shinykatie: Hmm, so two people think Paper.li updates are annoying but then other people have retweeted bits after reading. What to do?
01.09.2010 11.56.39
rachelclarke: Tippex does Subservient chicken with bears on YouTube http://bit.ly/a7pRmO
02.09.2010 07.46.16
vikkichowney: Impressive work from Tipp-Ex, really nice. http://www.youtube.com/user/tippexperience
02.09.2010 06.32.04
JemStone: RT @richardpbacon: Look who's here: http://yfrog.com/m9flij <-- Blair in @bbc5live studio . Costa Coffe being used as "prop".
02.09.2010 06.23.19
mrchrisaddison: Exciting 7 Day Sunday news! Guess who's our third permanent panellist? http://yfrog.com/m9flij
02.09.2010 06.27.00
caitlinmoran: Tony Blair's twenty minutes away from a massive carb-crash: RT @richardpbacon: Look who's here: http://yfrog.com/m9flij
02.09.2010 06.22.12
jemimakiss: MediaGuardian >> Quotables: Channel 4's latest web project reinvents quotations for the Twitter age http://bit.ly/ci94xm
02.09.2010 05.11.27
foe: [protected tweet]
02.09.2010 06.31.51
Says BBCRD:
RT @givp: Another opening at BBC Social - We are looking for a Technical Project Manager: http://bit.ly/b55g1t
BBCRD: RT @givp: Another opening at BBC Social - We are looking for a Technical Project Manager: http://bit.ly/b55g1t
02.09.2010 05.04.18
sicross:
hemmysphere:
As the fugitive businessman Asil Nadir flew back to Britain from his North Cyprus bolt-hole last week, Sean O'Neill, the crime editor of The Times, scooped Fleet Street by being the only print journalist on the plane. Yet those searching Google for the latest on the breaking story that morning would have found no sign of O'Neill's exclusive – only follow-up stories by rival news organisations such as The Guardian and ITN.
As the fugitive businessman Asil Nadir flew back to Britain from his North Cyprus bolt-hole last week, Sean O'Neill, the crime editor of The Times, scooped Fleet Street by being the only print journalist on the plane. Yet those searching Google for the latest on the breaking story that morning would have found no sign of O'Neill's exclusive – only follow-up stories by rival news organisations such as The Guardian and ITN.
antderosa: RT @lavrusik: The result so far of the Times' paywall: traffic down and now advertisers are pulling out: http://bit.ly/cXa3QO via @niemanlab
02.09.2010 07.47.49
Glinner:
psmith: Very good analysis of the Times paywall from @iburrell: Has Rupert Murdoch's paywall gamble paid off? http://tinyurl.com/2bt5pew
02.09.2010 02.16.16
nickhalstead:
Says R4isStatic:
Of course, there's already 'ping.fm', but more to the point, is 'Ping' any different from Last.fm? Really?
R4isStatic: Of course, there's already 'ping.fm', but more to the point, is 'Ping' any different from Last.fm? Really?
01.09.2010 12.04.10
simonth: Won't ping.fm be just a little bit pissed?
01.09.2010 10.47.31
Hermida: So will #Apple be able to get away with #Ping RT @iMacUSA There is already a ping.fm website
01.09.2010 10.52.56
More than 30% of Sky's total subscriber base, which stood at 9.86 million at the end of June, now watching in high definition
BSkyB has signed up the 3 millionth subscriber to its high definition (HD) television service just over four years after it was launched in the UK.
Nearly 50 channels are available in high definition on the Sky digital satellite service, including BBC HD, ITV1 HD and five high-definition Sky Sports networks. Living became the latest broadcaster to join the HD platform to.. show all text
More than 30% of Sky's total subscriber base, which stood at 9.86 million at the end of June, now watching in high definition BSkyB has signed up the 3 millionth subscriber to its high definition (HD) television service just over four years after it was launched in the UK. Nearly 50 channels are available in high definition on the Sky digital satellite service, including BBC HD, ITV1 HD and five high-definition Sky Sports networks. Living became the latest broadcaster to join the HD platform today , with several more ITV channels due to join it before the end of the year. More than 30% of Sky's total subscriber base, which stood at 9.86 million at the end of June, is now watching in high definition, a key driver in boosting the satellite broadcaster's average revenue per user. Sophie Turner Laing, Sky's managing director of entertainment, news and broadcast operations, said the broadcaster had "recognised the potential of HD early", adding that the superior quality broadcasts had now "grown into something which our customers utterly love and now demand as standard". However, the latest milestone also suggests that the growth rate of HD has slowed after a bumper second quarter boosted by the football World Cup. An extra 429,000 customers were signed up in the three months to the end of June, taking total HD subscribers to 2.94 million. A slowdown was predicted by the BSkyB chief executive, Jeremy Darroch, who said in July that he expected to see a "pause for breath" in take-up of the new technology. The next set of subscriber figures, for the third quarter of 2010, will be announced at the end of October. Sky's high-definition service launched in May 2006. High-definition channels are also available on Virgin Media, Freeview, the BBC and ITV's free-to-air satellite joint venture, Freesat. Living HD, which broadcasts programmes including Britain's Next Top Model presented by Elle Macpherson, became the 46th high-definition channel on the Sky platform, following the launch of Good Food HD earlier this week. Jonathan Webb, managing director of the Living TV Group, said: "Living is home to some of the glossiest UK and US programmes on television and they deserve to be seen in their pin-sharp HD glory." Eden HD, ITV2 HD, ITV3 HD and ITV4 HD will all launch before the end of the year, taking Sky's total number of HD channels to more than 50. BBC1 will also be simulcast in high definition in its entirety for the first time this autumn. Sky Sports' biggest HD audience to date was Manchester United's 3-0 win over Newcastle in their opening Premier League fixture of the season last month, which was watched in more than 800,000 homes. Sky's next big marketing push will be 3D television, with the broadcaster set to launch Europe's first dedicated 3D channel on 1 October. • To contact the MediaGuardian news desk email editor@mediaguardian.co.uk or phone 020 3353 3857. For all other inquiries please call the main Guardian switchboard on 020 3353 2000. • If you are writing a comment for publication, please mark clearly "for publication". guardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
adrideo: Wow, 30% of Sky homes have HD. That's impressive going. Gotta admire their marketing. Could anyone else pull off 30%? http://bit.ly/aM5DCG
02.09.2010 06.49.47
guardiannews: BSkyB signs up 3 millionth subscriber to high-definition television service http://bit.ly/aqNW1f
01.09.2010 23.11.59
medianooze: Television News: BSkyB signs up 3 millionth subscriber to high-definition television service http://bit.ly/aqNW1f #medianews
01.09.2010 23.11.18
Says nigelcsmith:
Mark Lawson compares the finished Sherlock with the un-aired pilot that's in the DVD boxset http://bit.ly/biAku7
nigelcsmith: Mark Lawson compares the finished Sherlock with the un-aired pilot that's in the DVD boxset http://bit.ly/biAku7
02.09.2010 01.05.07
guideguardian: Mark Lawson: Comparing the pilot of hit detective series Sherlock to the finished product is highly revealing http://gu.com/p/2jcta/tw
01.09.2010 23.44.28
SDBrook: Unscreened pilot of Sherlock was a dud, says Mark Lawson, which you can see from the DVD release. http://bit.ly/9MCR5g
02.09.2010 05.02.06
Press Complaints Commission confirms it was told two months ago that journalist was under investigation over new claim
The News of the World is facing a fresh allegation of phone hacking against one of its journalists, the Press Complaints Commission confirmed today.
The commission was informed by the paper just over two months ago about the allegation, and the journalist involved has been "suspended from reporting duties".
Stephen Abell, the PCC director, confirmed today that the pre.. show all text
Press Complaints Commission confirms it was told two months ago that journalist was under investigation over new claim The News of the World is facing a fresh allegation of phone hacking against one of its journalists, the Press Complaints Commission confirmed today. The commission was informed by the paper just over two months ago about the allegation, and the journalist involved has been "suspended from reporting duties". Stephen Abell, the PCC director, confirmed today that the press regulator was informed by the paper in June "of the existence of the recent allegation of phone-message hacking against the reporter". Abell said that the PCC was prevented from launching its own investigation because the allegation was "the subject of legal action". The new claim was revealed late yesterday in a New York Times article on the News of the World phone-hacking affair. The paper reported that the News of the World was conducting a new phone-hacking investigation and had suspended a reporter, after a "television personality" had been alerted by her phone company to a "possible unauthorised attempt to access her voicemail" and the number was traced back to a journalist at the paper. Bill Akass, the News of the World managing editor, confirmed in a response to the New York Times that an internal investigation was under way and that a journalist had been "suspended from reporting duties". It is understood that the News of the World was first made aware of the phone-hacking claim around Easter this year and that the internal investigation is ongoing. "A serious allegation has been made about the conduct of one of our reporters. We have followed our internal procedures and the reporter has been suspended from reporting duties, and a very thorough and extensive investigation carried out into that allegation (involving, for example, external forensic specialists)," Akass said. "The allegation is the subject of litigation and our internal investigation continues in tandem with that, which means I am unable to comment further. If the conclusion of the investigation or the litigation is that the allegation is proven, the reporter will be dismissed for gross misconduct without compensation. "We have a zero-tolerance approach to any wrong-doing and will take swift and decisive action if we have proof of any wrong-doing." Abell said: "The PCC was informed by the News of the World in June of the existence of the recent allegation of phone message hacking against the reporter. This is currently the subject of legal action, which has prevented the PCC from becoming formally involved at this stage. "However, once the legal action has been concluded, the commission will consider the matter further. It was right that the News of the World disclosed the existence of this claim to the PCC, and we will address the issues when it is possible for us to do so. The PCC has made publicly clear on a number of occasions that phone message hacking is deplorable and that view – of course – remains." The News of the World's editor, Colin Myler told the Commons culture select committee last year that he had introduced new procedures to avoid a repeat of this behaviour. Myler became editor in 2007, when Andy Coulson resigned over the Clive Goodman phone-hacking affair. Myler told the committee that all staff were ordered to follow the PCC code of conduct and warned that failure to comply could result in disciplinary proceedings. Stricter controls on cash payments and sources were also introduced and all staff had to attend workshops on the PCC code, he added. The committee called several current and former executives from the News of the World's publisher, News International, including Coulson, last year as part of its inquiry into privacy, press standards and libel. This fresh round of hearings was prompted by the Guardian's revelation that News International had paid £700,000 to settle a breach of privacy claim from Gordon Taylor, chief executive of the Professional Footballers' Association, after a private investigator working for the News of the World hacked into his phone. • To contact the MediaGuardian news desk email editor@mediaguardian.co.uk or phone 020 3353 3857. For all other inquiries please call the main Guardian switchboard on 020 3353 2000. • If you are writing a comment for publication, please mark clearly "for publication". guardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
mattsays: RT @fieldproducer (via @GdnPolitics) News of the World told press watchdog of fresh phone-hacking allegation http://bit.ly/dpmoj5
02.09.2010 07.07.36
tweetminster: "News of the World told press watchdog of fresh phone-hacking allegation" http://bit.ly/dbKBv2 - The Guardian
02.09.2010 07.00.19
MatthewWells: Surely BBC must cover story now? 'News of the World told press watchdog of fresh phone-hacking allegation' http://bit.ly/dpmoj5
02.09.2010 06.55.35
mediaguardian: News of the World told PCC of new phone-hacking claim http://bit.ly/cpovxX
02.09.2010 06.31.55
craigwebster: RT @getify: RT @danbri @Digeratii Oh my god, Facebook has finally become self-aware. http://twitpic.com/2kgl6u
02.09.2010 06.52.13
danbri:
hemmysphere:
nevali:
Facebook is in what’s called a recruiting sweet spot right now. Out of control growth in users and revenue and a nearly certain IPO run in the near future. That’s when employee growth expands at the greatest rate for a company as it grows from hundreds to thousands and then tens of thousands of employees. And with low priced private stock as currency, companies in that position can generally get anyone they want.
Yahoo of course does more than its fair share of feeding the beast, bu.. show all text
Facebook is in what’s called a recruiting sweet spot right now. Out of control growth in users and revenue and a nearly certain IPO run in the near future. That’s when employee growth expands at the greatest rate for a company as it grows from hundreds to thousands and then tens of thousands of employees. And with low priced private stock as currency, companies in that position can generally get anyone they want. Yahoo of course does more than its fair share of feeding the beast, but they’re everyone’s favorite recruiting pool right now. But plenty of Googler’s are heading to Facebook, too – LinkedIn is tracking 118 of them to date. For some Googlers, it’s paying off just to go get an offer from Facebook and then tell their employer – a counter offer is almost sure to come, and it may be stratospheric. One recent Googler, we’ve confirmed, was recently offered a counter offer he couldn’t refuse (except he did). He was offered a 15% raise on his $150,000 mid level developer salary, quadruple the stock benefits and…wait for it…a $500,000 cash bonus to stay for a year. He took the Facebook offer anyway. Sources close to Google tell us that about 80% of people stay when they’re offered a counter to a Facebook offer. But some still leave. Part of that may be that Facebook is quietly telling people, never in writing, that there’s no reason their stock won’t hit $100 billion in total valuation over the next couple of years. No guarantees, yadda yadda, but hey if you get 1/10 of 1%, that’s $100 million in stock. Now it’s a party. Google isn’t making these kind of counter offers to everyone, but it’s not a one off, either. It seems to me that every Google engineer at least should be taking a personal day to go collect a Facebook offer. Even if it’s just to get a counter offer from their current employer. Art: Audrey Fukuman
sicross:
rarepleasures: Facebook no longer the elephant in the room. They are the room : http://tcrn.ch/cT8BRW
01.09.2010 23.05.38
jowyang: From my contacts at Google and Facebook, I'm also hearing about this migration http://tcrn.ch/bDBOVg Yet Twitter is also hiring rapidly
01.09.2010 17.20.40
Techmeme: Google Making Extraordinary Counteroffers To Stop Flow Of Employees To Facebook (@arrington /... http://tcrn.ch/aspaA2 http://techme.me/A00n
01.09.2010 12.21.03
TechCrunch: Google Making Extraordinary Counteroffers To Stop Flow Of Employees To Facebook - http://tcrn.ch/bpdbYT by @arrington
01.09.2010 11.28.08
Says ewanmcintosh:
Ewan on 38minutes: Quotabl.es - finally a proper home for our quotation history:
My good chums at Mint and Chann... http://bit.ly/b5KML5
ewanmcintosh: Ewan on 38minutes: Quotabl.es - finally a proper home for our quotation history:
My good chums at Mint and Chann... http://bit.ly/b5KML5
02.09.2010 06.48.07
ewanmcintosh: Quotabl.es - finally our quotations history gets the home it deserves http://bit.ly/cpn0V8
02.09.2010 06.17.55
sizemore:
hemmysphere:
Says NickyAACampbell:
Milband bros story makes screen http://bbc.in/d6HuRo they don't waste a second
NickyAACampbell: Milband bros story makes screen http://bbc.in/d6HuRo they don't waste a second
02.09.2010 06.32.03
Says BBCRD:
RT @BBC_on_Blogs: BBC iPlayer now on your Panasonic TV - From Pocket-lint (PM) http://ow.ly/18PCSj
BBCRD: RT @BBC_on_Blogs: BBC iPlayer now on your Panasonic TV - From Pocket-lint (PM) http://ow.ly/18PCSj
02.09.2010 03.57.32
BBC_on_Blogs: BBC iPlayer now on your Panasonic TV - From Pocket-lint (PM) http://ow.ly/18PCSj
02.09.2010 03.25.19
Says darrenwaters:
http://thewildernessdowntown.com/ is another triumph for the Google Creative Lab team.
darrenwaters: http://thewildernessdowntown.com/ is another triumph for the Google Creative Lab team.
01.09.2010 15.18.25
hermioneway: wow! Get Chrome and see the power of HTML5 http://thewildernessdowntown.com/ via ( @natts )
02.09.2010 01.29.31
jupitusphillip: Please RT this... Achingly beautiful... http://thewildernessdowntown.com/ Night night...
01.09.2010 15.05.24
davidschneider: Absolutely extraordinary. In a We Know Where You Live sort of way http://bit.ly/cUptyg (via @jupitusphillip)
01.09.2010 15.02.08
jupitusphillip: @jamesendeacott @jonronson @HurstAKA @alandavies1 @beathhigh Have a look at this chaps... http://thewildernessdowntown.com/
01.09.2010 14.57.18
jupitusphillip: Probably the most amazing thing I've ever seen on my computer... (please forgive hyperbole) http://thewildernessdowntown.com/
01.09.2010 14.44.27
jupitusphillip: @glinner @mrchrisaddison This is probably old news but this is even more fun than the Janelle Monae link http://thewildernessdowntown.com/
01.09.2010 14.43.01
With the BBC now providing links to the scientific research it reports, will 2010 be the year when science journalists discover the web link?
It's funny how things can be connected. I was looking up the recipe for Worcestershire sauce last night and ended up idly clicking through Wikipedia. It turns out that the sauce is made from anchovies, which can cause amnesic shellfish poisoning, a brain-damaging illness that may have caused thousands of frantic seabirds to invade towns in Californian in .. show all text
With the BBC now providing links to the scientific research it reports, will 2010 be the year when science journalists discover the web link? It's funny how things can be connected. I was looking up the recipe for Worcestershire sauce last night and ended up idly clicking through Wikipedia. It turns out that the sauce is made from anchovies, which can cause amnesic shellfish poisoning, a brain-damaging illness that may have caused thousands of frantic seabirds to invade towns in Californian in 1961; events that may have provided some inspiration for Hitchcock's film The Birds. I found all this because of links. Links are the foundation of the world wide web. They take us beyond whatever we happened to be looking for, on journeys to places we never even imagined existed. Every minute of every day, millions of curious apes click billions of links, each travelling on their own miniature voyages of discovery. Of all the differences between science blogging and mainstream media reporting of science, one of the most profound is the use of links. Science bloggers often come from a scientific background, and as scientists we were drilled on the need for citations. Any factual statement or assertion you make in a research paper should be backed up with a reference to primary evidence supporting the claim. It's a habit that translates well into journalism, a profession which, like science, should be concerned with studying the world and reporting its findings on behalf of the public in an open and accountable way. By providing links to sources (or indeed posting full interview transcripts), journalists can show that they're honest, open and trustworthy and allow the reader to judge whether the interpretation they've presented of someone else's work or words is the correct one. And links can do much more than that. By embedding links in text, journalists can turn their articles from static descriptions of the world into platforms that open up avenues for exploration and discovery to their audience, tapping into rich veins of knowledge and intrigue to provide the reader with far more value than one journalist could provide on their own. Links are beautiful, so why are newspaper websites so utterly reluctant to use them? In particular, why do science journalists who write about scientific papers so often fail to provide a link to a copy of the paper in question? It's an issue that Ben Goldacre raised with the BBC earlier this year, but with apparently little success. As Ben pointed out at the time:
But now the Beeb seems to have relented. It has come to my attention, courtesy of the commenter soveda, that the BBC are – occasionally at least – now adding links to the original research in their articles, for example in the 5th paragraph here. This is to be congratulated. It's easy to moan when journalists get things wrong, but fair play to the BBC here – they've listened, and they appear to have changed their practice. For that they should be congratulated, and if you give a crap about news outlets linking to research (and if not, why on Earth are you still reading this?) then you should go immediately to their feedback page, and leave a friendly comment. So will other organs follow the BBC's lead? Unfortunately, the scientific journals themselves are putting barriers in the way of journalists who want to link to the original research, as the science editor of the Times Mark Henderson told me earlier:
Embargoes themselves are a difficult and controversial subject best left to the likes of Ivan Oransky, but clearly there's a problem with the way that PR officers at some major journals are operating – by failing to support busy journalists, they're failing the public. One simple solution would fix this problem, as Mark suggests:
Let's hope that the BBC's decision will start putting pressure on journals to do just this. But let's not forget the wider problem here. As blogs and mainstream media draw ever closer together – a long-term shift epitomised by my own move to the Guardian – there are opportunities for each to learn from the other. One of the most obvious things that bloggers can teach mainstream media journalists is the proper use of the link. It's not enough for journalists to simply report on the world, they need to let people see it for themselves. guardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
R4isStatic: Links FTW! http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/the-lay-scientist/2010/sep/01/bbc-links-scientific-research [A rebuttal to Carr, perhaps?]
02.09.2010 02.08.27
R4isStatic:
onpause: "...millions of curious apes click billions of links, each travelling on their own miniature voyages of discovery" http://bit.ly/9FNbyt
02.09.2010 01.04.47
Says bbcpress:
Press release: Tony Blair speaks to @richardpbacon on Radio #5Live - http://bbc.in/ba7KXQ
bbcpress: Press release: Tony Blair speaks to @richardpbacon on Radio #5Live - http://bbc.in/ba7KXQ
02.09.2010 00.51.44
quantick:
richardpbacon: Here's some headlines from my Tony Blair interview (goes out at 2pm). Eat this Marr (just kidding, I'm a massive fan) http://bbc.in/ba7KXQ
02.09.2010 01.54.38
It was a dark and stormy night on December 18, 1908. Okay—maybe it wasn't so dark and stormy. But it should have been, because that was the night Thomas Edison tried to hijack the motion picture industry.
"With his beetle brows, long wispy hair, and beatific look, Edison might have seemed the addled inventor," writes the historian Neil Gabler, "but he was a shrewd businessman and a fearsome adversary who was never loath to take credit for any invention, whether he was .. show all text
It was a dark and stormy night on December 18, 1908. Okay—maybe it wasn't so dark and stormy. But it should have been, because that was the night Thomas Edison tried to hijack the motion picture industry. "With his beetle brows, long wispy hair, and beatific look, Edison might have seemed the addled inventor," writes the historian Neil Gabler, "but he was a shrewd businessman and a fearsome adversary who was never loath to take credit for any invention, whether he was responsible or not." Read the comments on this post
benoonbenoon: Wonderful, timely morality tale about Edison, patents and birth of Hollywood from Ars Technica. http://j.mp/bOybEl
01.09.2010 22.47.02
theunthinkables: RT @benoonbenoon: Wonderful, timely morality tale about Edison, patents and birth of Hollywood from Ars Technica. http://j.mp/bOybEl
02.09.2010 01.20.00
simonphopkins:
Cable provider publishes promises monthly average speed tally, and publishes survey claiming 93% of public support its case
Virgin Media has promised to publish its typical broadband speeds each month, as it publishes a survey suggesting that most customers find internet service providers' advertisements misleading.
Only 9% of respondents surveyed by ICM for Virgin Media think broadband advertising tends to be accurate, and 93% of people believe ISPs should only advertise the typical speed rece.. show all text
Cable provider publishes promises monthly average speed tally, and publishes survey claiming 93% of public support its case Virgin Media has promised to publish its typical broadband speeds each month, as it publishes a survey suggesting that most customers find internet service providers' advertisements misleading. Only 9% of respondents surveyed by ICM for Virgin Media think broadband advertising tends to be accurate, and 93% of people believe ISPs should only advertise the typical speed received by the majority of customers. It is common practice for ISPs to advertise broadband speeds of "up to" 8Mbps, 20Mbps or 50Mbps, although according to the poll 98% of people believe there is a clearer way to advertise speeds. Virgin Media has thrown its weight behind a move away from advertising "up to" speeds, proposing that ISPs advertise "typical" or "average" speeds qualified by independent experts. But BT has already signalled its opposition, saying that listing "average" speeds would be disadvantageous to larger networks operating in rural areas that require longer copper lines. ICM's sample of 1,000 respondents found that 90% of people find it difficult to compare and contrast broadband services advertised by rival providers because they cannot be sure of the speed they will actually receive, while 54% are unsurprised when shown the difference between advertised speeds and delivered speeds. Data released by communications regulator Ofcom in July showed the average broadband speed is now just 46% of what was advertised, down from 56% a year ago. "There is a very big difference between the headline services that are advertised and the actual speeds that are delivered," said Ed Richards, Ofcom's chief executive. Last month the Advertising Standards Authority – which had asked the Committee of Advertising Practice to review broadband speed claims – banned a broadband advertisement by BT, the UK's largest fixed line broadband provider, following complaints from BSkyB, TalkTalk and Virgin Media. The ASA ruled that BT could not back up its claim that the 20Mbps service was consistently faster than its 8Mbps offering, saying that the advert was "likely to mislead" and banning it in its current form. BT said it was "disappointed" by the ASA adjudication, saying it had no intention to mislead customers. Virgin Media is the second-largest fixed-line broadband provider in the UK, with 22.5% of the market share; BT has 26.7%. From today, Virgin will publish monthly updates of the typical speed being received by 66% of customers over 24 hours. Jon James, executive director of broadband at Virgin Media, said: "People are paying for faster and faster broadband but being ripped off by unscrupulous providers who can't deliver their promised speeds to even a single customer. "A change in advertising is urgently needed to build consumer confidence in super-fast broadband and the industry more generally. In the meantime, I hope other ISPs will quickly follow Virgin Media's lead by disclosing their own monthly performance data so people can make an informed decision about how to spend their money." • To contact the MediaGuardian news desk email editor@mediaguardian.co.uk or phone 020 3353 3857. For all other inquiries please call the main Guardian switchboard on 020 3353 2000. • If you are writing a comment for publication, please mark clearly "for publication". guardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
JoshHalliday: By me @ t'Guardian: Virgin Media steps up battle over broadband speed advertising http://bit.ly/d7nZ3O
02.09.2010 00.17.30
mediaguardian: Virgin Media steps up battle over broadband speed advertising http://bit.ly/9bMwmY
02.09.2010 00.11.42
guardiannews: Virgin Media steps up battle over broadband speed advertising http://bit.ly/d7nZ3O
01.09.2010 23.43.36
guardiantech: Virgin Media steps up battle over broadband speed advertising http://bit.ly/dBlSdI
01.09.2010 23.43.22
Says jemimakiss:
RT @jayrosen_nyu Wikileaks may have to break free from Assange: http://jr.ly/65ed Already being discussed - http://jr.ly/4see
jemimakiss: RT @jayrosen_nyu Wikileaks may have to break free from Assange: http://jr.ly/65ed Already being discussed - http://jr.ly/4see
02.09.2010 00.03.17
CharlieBeckett:
jayrosen_nyu: Wikileaks may have to break free from Assange: http://jr.ly/65ed According to this account http://jr.ly/4see it is already being discussed.
01.09.2010 23.10.52
Says jemimakiss:
RT @jayrosen_nyu Wikileaks may have to break free from Assange: http://jr.ly/65ed Already being discussed - http://jr.ly/4see
jemimakiss: RT @jayrosen_nyu Wikileaks may have to break free from Assange: http://jr.ly/65ed Already being discussed - http://jr.ly/4see
02.09.2010 00.03.17
CharlieBeckett:
jayrosen_nyu: Wikileaks may have to break free from Assange: http://jr.ly/65ed According to this account http://jr.ly/4see it is already being discussed.
01.09.2010 23.10.52
It seems only weeks ago that I was reviewing a BeBook Mini ebook reader here; so what on earth possessed me to buy an Amazon Kindle ? And what do I think of it so far?
Well, first – the justification.
I’ve used my little BeBook mini a lot. An awful lot. Every trip into London has been spent with my nose in a book – whether Cory Doctorow’s Little Brother (just excellent, by the way), the usual Sherlock Holmes mysteries, or Stieg Larsson trilogy (downloaded illegally, but .. show all text
It seems only weeks ago that I was reviewing a BeBook Mini ebook reader here; so what on earth possessed me to buy an Amazon Kindle Well, first – the justification. I’ve used my little BeBook mini a lot. An awful lot. Every trip into London has been spent with my nose in a book – whether Cory Doctorow’s Little Brother (just excellent, by the way), the usual Sherlock Holmes mysteries, or Stieg Larsson trilogy (downloaded illegally, but I own the printed books). I’ve purchased one book – an Android programming book. I’ve used it to hold my notes when speaking at conferences. It lasts forever. It’s a marvellous device. The downsides are relatively few: but all surround the availability and price of content. The likes of Waterstones and Foyles do sell eBooks, but at prices that are the same – and sometimes more expensive – than the print versions. To download these requires the PC open, with the myriad of distractions it offers. And the 5-inch screen – not quite large enough – was just too small to comfortably read freely-available Google books in PDF format. The new Kindle offers respite from these downsides. The prices are very cheap. That new Tony Blair book, A Journey? It’s £12.50 (down from £25) on Amazon.co.uk in hardback Something else I wasn’t too aware of – Amazon.co.uk offer samples. The first chapter is free to read – they’re hoping that it hooks you in and that you buy the rest of the book. This is a wonderful idea, and I suspect will be very costly to my wallet; it certainly worked in the case of the Blair book, which I found fascinating (never having read a politician’s autobiography before). There will always be the curmudgeons who want a proper paper book; but, for me, the above two points outweigh the undeniable niceness of a paper product in your hand. Cheap books that you can start reading before you buy them? Count me in. And there’s nothing to stop you buying the proper paper books if you want to. So: to the device. I’m sure you’ve read the other reviews, so I’ll not bore you with details you could read on the product info page My initial reaction was that it’s very well built. It charges using a micro-USB: the same as my mobile phone (hurray!). The power button is an annoying slidey one of the type loved by Sony for some inexplicable reason and loathed and hated by anyone with common sense; but even this feels expensive, not cheap – even though all indications are that this is a unit that’s been built for volume, not luxury. The unit is all nicely rounded, and sits well in the hand. (The plastic is a bit too easy to scratch though. Buy a case.) I’ve been awed by ePaper (or whatever we’re supposed to call the screen) already; but the Kindle’s contrast is excellent when compared to the BeBook: black is nicely dark, and the screen is nicely light. It’s very easy to read – and really comes into its own outside. The inbuilt wifi (I just went for the wifi version – couldn’t see the point in the £50 for 3G) is dangerous. One click of the clicky thing, and you can buy a book – no passwords, no credit card information, nothing; it comes preset to your Amazon account, y’see. (Incidentally, you can cancel a purchase just as easily, so don’t panic). The inbuilt (experimental) browser seems to do a moderately good job should I wish to log into a free wifi hotspot like The Cloud in the pub; and it connected quickly and flawlessly to the wifi networks I have access to. Ah, yes, the browser. This was another justification for buying the device. I reckoned that it might be a perfect Google Reader client for sitting outside and catching up on the world. It uses Webkit, so renders quite well; and the standard Google Reader website works acceptably on it (keyboard shortcuts and everything). As a browser, it’s adequate, though. Yes, it works – the BBC News website (bookmarked on the device at the now-defunct news.bbc.co.uk URL) renders decently enough once zoomed in; but it’s fairly slow. An iPad this isn’t. Mind you, at £109, you’re probably not expecting it to be. So, to the book reading experience. A genuine Kindle edition book works well: you have a surprising amount of control over the text density, line height, and so on. A neat trick is moving the cursor down to a word you don’t understand (“toper”, in my case) and a dictionary definition pops up and helpfully tells you that it’s a person who drinks a lot. Highlight a sentence or two, and you can save a quote in your own Amazon account – or hit ‘share’ to publish it to Twitter, like this. Page turns are snappy – far faster than the BeBook, though the speed didn’t worry me. The page-turn buttons confused me at first (I thought the left-hand one went backwards), but turning the pages is now second-nature. It’s an enjoyable experience. The font geek in me is disappointed at the lack of embedded fonts for books. Everything is rendered in a standard Amazon Kindle font (which looks like it’s Caecilia). I can change this to a slightly condensed version (which is what you see above), or a variant of Helvetica, but that’s it. The choice of typeface in a book is part of the book’s charm; and it’s disappointing that Amazon deem it unimportant. However, all this changes when you try to read a PDF on the device – for example, Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island. Follow that link and you’ll see a wonderful old book, owned by someone called Russell Gray in February 1884, and now the property of Harvard. Download the PDF, and stick it onto the Kindle, and you still get this old feel. Unlike the BeBook, however, the Kindle copes admirably with this format: pages load in less than a second (unlike the BeBook, which took four seconds or so). And – more importantly for me – the extra inch of screen makes the facsimile much clearer to read. If only I could get rid of the progress bar at the bottom it would be clearer still. Please, Amazon? Finally, I haven’t had it long enough to fully comment on the battery – only to say that it looks significantly worse than the BeBook; but then, that wifi doesn’t come cheap. You can turn the wifi off in the menu – and I have – but it looks as if it’ll still outlast the longest flight possible. Oh, and if you’ve got a Kindle 3 already? Go to the home page, and hold down Shift + Alt + M for a little easter egg… (grin) So far, then: most impressed. As per my disclosure, links to Amazon in this article are affiliate links. Products won’t cost you any more as a result, and I might earn enough to buy a small pint of very cheap beer. Permalink | One comment
jamescridland: If you missed it last night, here's a my review of the @AmazonKindle - http://muk.fm/s8h
02.09.2010 03.10.16
jamescridland: Hopefully, @adambowie won't be too upset with my calling him a curmudgeon in http://muk.fm/s8h (grin)
01.09.2010 15.10.30
jamescridland: 24 hours with an Amazon Kindle 3: a quick review... http://muk.fm/s8h
01.09.2010 15.04.23
chagota: Certainly the most sensible review of the Kindle 3 so far http://bit.ly/auZB0G by @jamescridland with thoughtful comments by @adambowie
01.09.2010 15.55.58
adambowie: @jamescridland Not at all. Comment up on your site! (http://muk.fm/s8h)
01.09.2010 15.22.13
It's no secret that Twitter for iPhone (née Tweetie) is often regarded as the gold standard for mobile apps -- it blends functionality, performance, and usability together with a dash of playful quirkiness that works so well Twitter just bought the app and hired developer Loren Brichter in back in April. That delayed the release of an iPad version, but Twitter's finally come through -- and as you'd expect, Twitter for iPad does things just as uniquely as its sister apps on the iPhone and.. show all text
It's no secret that Twitter for iPhone (née Tweetie) is often regarded as the gold standard for mobile apps -- it blends functionality, performance, and usability together with a dash of playful quirkiness that works so well Twitter just bought the app and hired developer Loren Brichter in back in April. That delayed the release of an iPad version, but Twitter's finally come through -- and as you'd expect, Twitter for iPad does things just as uniquely as its sister apps on the iPhone and Mac. In fact, we'd go so far as to say a few of its interface conventions will become as commonplace as slide-to-refresh, which was first introduced in Tweetie for iPhone -- but let's not get ahead of ourselves. Read on for more!
Continue reading Twitter for iPad review Twitter for iPad review originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 01 Sep 2010 23:59:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | | Email this | Comments
azeem:
Techmeme: Twitter for iPad review (@reckless / Engadget) http://j.mp/a1gPZe http://techme.me/A0F2
01.09.2010 22.00.52
TweetSmarter: WhoHoo! Twitter for iPad is here Review: http://j.mp/c9iJ24 Announcement: http://j.mp/dCEAf3
01.09.2010 21.40.04
Scobleizer:
thoroughlygood: Archbishop Vincent Nichols on the UK Papal visit to England and Scotland at a recent @BBCCollege event http://youtu.be/Waq11jfdag4
02.09.2010 06.58.52
BBCCollege: Archbishop Vincent Nichols on the UK Papal visit to England and Scotland at a recent @BBCCollege event http://youtu.be/Waq11jfdag4
02.09.2010 06.58.53
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adactio: They've gone and done it again. http://lanyrd.com/ from @natbat and @simonw is another great project.
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pk2004: RT @simonw: We launched http://lanyrd.com/ ! <- very cool discovery tool for conferences...
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simonw: We launched http://lanyrd.com/ ! Go easy on it, the log files are going a bit nuts, who knew Twitter was viral?
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31.08.2010 00.40.13
jamescridland: Um... wow. http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com/ - amazing experience in Google Chrome (on a fast computer)
30.08.2010 14.22.38
huey: Without doubt... THE most beautiful thing I've seen in a while from @aaronkoblin and Arcade Fire http://bit.ly/9VQNmq
30.08.2010 09.48.06
CustardCat: RT @jamescridland: Um... wow. http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com/ - amazing experience in Google Chrome (on a fast computer)
30.08.2010 14.32.32
TimMontgomerie: Clever > RT @alexsmith1982 I think Arcade Fire have just changed the music video forever http://bit.ly/cRV3WQ
30.08.2010 13.26.37
tim: so now we know what Street View is for http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com/
30.08.2010 12.54.40
jeremyet: Google Chrome/Arcade Fire experiment is very cool & makes me wish I'd lived in more videogenic places http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com/
30.08.2010 10.16.44
jaffathecake:
Scobleizer:
danbri: impressive html5 'interactive' movie, esp if it works with a city you know. http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com/
30.08.2010 08.19.50
johnprescott:
IanMartin:
tom_watson:
johnprescott: And we have over 6,000 signatures! Only 94,000 more until we get that Commons debate http://www.savenhsdirect.co.uk/
29.08.2010 03.56.09
mrchrisaddison: RT @johnprescott: 200 people/hr signing #savenhss direct petition www.savenhsdirect.co.uk/ 95,000 more & Cameron gives us a Commons debate
29.08.2010 03.39.57
Aiannucci:
johnprescott: Almost 200 people an hour signing #savenhsdirect petition http://www.savenhsdirect.co.uk/ 95,000 more & Cameron gives us a Commons debate
29.08.2010 01.55.18
johnprescott: Almost 200 people an hour signing #savenhss direct petition http://www.savenhsdirect.co.uk/ 95,000 more & Cameron gives us a Commons debate
29.08.2010 01.53.57
johnprescott: Heartfelt thanks to the 5,164 who've now signed the #savenhsdirect petition Let's keep it up http://www.savenhsdirect.co.uk/
29.08.2010 00.44.21
johnprescott: @campbellclaret You signed the petition yet? http://www.savenhsdirect.co.uk/
28.08.2010 11.14.22
johnprescott: That was quick! Thanks to everyone who's signed including Pui Shi Tsang, our 500th signature of the http://www.savenhsdirect.co.uk petition
27.08.2010 15.33.48
johnprescott: Only 20 off 500 signatures on the #savethenhsdirect petition Do it before you log off tonight http://www.savenhsdirect.co.uk/
27.08.2010 15.30.00
johnprescott: It's only been going 15 minutes but more than 170 people have signed the petition at http://www.savenhsdirect.co.uk Thanks
27.08.2010 14.52.48
johnprescott: It's only been ging 15 minutes but more than 170 people have signed the petition at http://www.savenhsdirect.co.uk Thanks
27.08.2010 14.52.16
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27.08.2010 14.44.20
samuelbailey: RT @TechCrunch: Foursquare Takes Over Times Square With A Massive Display Ad - http://tcrn.ch/9mija4
29.08.2010 02.49.05
sicross:
TechCrunch: Foursquare Takes Over Times Square With A Massive Display Ad - http://tcrn.ch/9mija4 by @parislemon
28.08.2010 18.48.10
sophiebr: @caitlinmoran more details on Sherlock's return to BBC One just posted at http://bbc.in/aK8sob. Thought you might be interested!
28.08.2010 04.47.44
ChrisHDJones: @Markgatiss BBCPress release on #Sherlock here! : http://bbc.in/aK8sob
28.08.2010 04.44.08
PabloAlmondo:
ChrisHDJones: Both #Luther and #Sherlock to return to the #BBC! http://bbc.in/aK8sob
28.08.2010 04.35.40
sophiebr: More details on the return of #Luther (two 2hr specials) and #Sherlock (3 90min episodes) on #BBCOne here: http://bbc.in/aK8sob. #mgeitf
28.08.2010 04.34.50
nevali:
ChrisHDJones:
sophiebr: Mark Thompson's #MacTaggart lecture starts in 30 mins. Watch here: http://bbc.in/btHMew, full text at 8pm at http://bbc.in/cH85ff #mgeitf
27.08.2010 10.32.49
ChrisHDJones:
PabloAlmondo: RT @bbcpress: Thompson's #McTaggart starts at 6.45pm. Watch here: http://bbc.in/btHMew - Full text here at 8pm: http://bbc.in/cH85ff #mgeitf
27.08.2010 09.04.15
sophiebr:
ChrisHDJones: Mark Thompson's McTaggart lecture starts at 6.45pm. Watch it online here: http://bbc.in/btHMew #mgeitf
27.08.2010 08.51.58
sophiebr: @RobertAndrews BBC News Channel are planning to show Mark Thompson's speech & stream online at http://bbc.in/b3YZsI
27.08.2010 07.29.00
ChrisHDJones:
sophiebr: BBC News Channel are planning to show Mark Thompson's #MGEITF MacTaggart lecture tonight from18.45pm. Online stream: http://bbc.in/b3YZsI
27.08.2010 07.26.04
benayers: Good to see Mark Thomson come out fighting #mgeitf http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10318089
27.08.2010 11.10.02
AboutTheBBC:
noodlepie:
jackschofield:
suellewellyn:
AboutTheBBC:
benayers:
drewb: Via @sophiebr: BBC News Channel to show Mark Thompson's #MGEITF MacTaggart lecture tonight from18.45pm. Online stream: http://bbc.in/b3YZsI
27.08.2010 07.31.01
nevali:
darrenwaters:
ruskin147: The Stig. He’s ours « Transmission – BBC Top Gear http://bit.ly/cb4WmY (great blog post by Top Gear boss)
27.08.2010 02.52.37
JemStone:
samuelbailey: "Do you want a BBC that runs away from a snidey headline, or one that fights to protect its belongings?" RT @huey http://bit.ly/9NfMCp
27.08.2010 02.50.10
huey: Why Stig's identity must remain a secret Brilliant blog post from Top Gear Boss on Stig legal case http://bit.ly/9NfMCp (via @danielheaf)
27.08.2010 02.42.26
danielheaf: Brilliant blog post from Top Gear Boss on Stig legal case http://bit.ly/9NfMCp #BBC #BBCWordwide #TopGear #Stig
27.08.2010 02.17.29
danielheaf: RT @sophiebr: RT @juliantelly #Topgear boss hits back at critics of BBC's #Stig court case http://bit.ly/9Pjjhj
27.08.2010 02.11.16
sophiebr: RT @juliantelly #Topgear boss hits back at critics of BBC's #Stig court case http://bit.ly/9Pjjhj
27.08.2010 01.53.09
mattsays: RT @diane1859 (via @danielheaf) Brilliant blog post from Top Gear Boss on Stig http://bit.ly/9NfMCp #BBC #BBCWordwide #TopGear #Stig
27.08.2010 02.44.17
LDN: Help the British Library create a sound map of Britain http://bit.ly/b6htNM (via @Ianperryemerge)
26.08.2010 01.38.18
aleksk: RT @r4today: Help the British Library create a sound map of Britain. Link: http://is.gd/eEoWM (using @markrock's Audioboo)
26.08.2010 01.09.46
darrenwaters:
ruskin147: I think @r4today is doing the fab British Lib/Audioboo soundmap later - I will have a blog up soon. But here's the map: http://bit.ly/bjMvI3
26.08.2010 00.19.46
clarered: RT @Artangel: Help the British Library create a sound map of Britain http://bit.ly/b6htNM
26.08.2010 02.17.52
jangles:
mickfealty:
syzygy: Good heavens.. I only just heard about this from @ruskin147 - UK Sound Map... time to get Audiobooing! http://bit.ly/bjMvI3 (SFW)
26.08.2010 00.28.48
tom_watson:
r4today: Help the British Library create a sound map of Britain. Link: http://is.gd/eEoWM
26.08.2010 00.23.54
tom_watson:
BBCRadio4: RT @ruskin147: I think @r4today is doing the fab British Lib/Audioboo soundmap later -Here's the map: http://bit.ly/bjMvI3 <-- now! (JS)
26.08.2010 00.22.18
wilsondan:
dickdotcom: I hope well-off people who voted tory feel comfortable their extra wealth is coming at the expense of the less well-off http://bit.ly/bJlPE7
25.08.2010 02.14.17
rooreynolds: IFS: "Low-income households of working age lose the most as a proportion of income from ... emergency budget" http://bit.ly/amjgTY #radio4
25.08.2010 00.05.38
IanMartin:
JosieLong:
guardiannews: Poor families bear brunt of coalition's austerity drive http://bit.ly/apvF8h
25.08.2010 02.35.23
nevali:
radioproducer: RT @jemimakiss: MediaGuardian >> Audioboo's new direct messages - the future for personalised radio? http://bit.ly/9d3lC2
24.08.2010 05.12.09
mydogminton:
jemimakiss: MediaGuardian >> Audioboo's new direct messages - the future for personalised radio? http://bit.ly/9d3lC2
24.08.2010 05.04.31
chagota: Yay for @audioboo. It's out! RT @guardianpda: Audioboo's new direct messages - the future for personalised radio? http://bit.ly/9d3lC2
24.08.2010 06.33.41
guardiantech: Audioboo's new direct messages - the future for personalised radio? http://bit.ly/9ctFSm
24.08.2010 05.44.54
JoshHalliday: By @jemimakiss: Audioboo's new direct messages - the future for personalised radio? http://bit.ly/dwWCh7
24.08.2010 05.00.19
mediaguardian: Audioboo's new direct messages - the future for personalised radio? http://bit.ly/9d3lC2
24.08.2010 04.53.50
marksimpkins: re the MHEG+ release http://bbc.in/c3VUIA, you have no idea how deep in that rabbit hole i got with Project Conger!
23.08.2010 09.18.35
marksimpkins: RT @bbccouk: BBC Internet Blog: Open Source Release of MHEG+ Toolkit: Today the BBC Red Button team is pleased to ... http://bbc.in/c3VUIA
23.08.2010 09.17.40
ChrisHDJones: Mark Hatton BBC's Senior Software Engineer for TV Platforms Group blogs about #opensource MHEG+ suite release: http://bbc.in/mhegplus
23.08.2010 09.05.46
adew:
bbccouk: BBC Internet Blog: Open Source Release of MHEG+ Toolkit: Today the BBC Red Button team is pleased to announce the ... http://bbc.in/c3VUIA
23.08.2010 07.38.47
meeware: RT @BBCRD: BBC Release the MHEG+ toolkit #OpenSource http://bbc.in/dbZwwo
23.08.2010 09.22.39
Briantist: #Free #TV #news Open Source Release of MHEG Toolkit - Open Source Release of MHEG+ Toolkit http://ow.ly/18GRGH
23.08.2010 08.53.43
BBCRedButton:
catfunt: Interactive TV MHEG+ suite released by BBC. Blog post has details -->> http://bbc.in/mhegplus
23.08.2010 07.06.53
annapickard: Thanks to @yoz, my new favourite site - http://hungoverowls.tumblr.com/ which closely resembles our house today.
22.08.2010 18.14.22
yoz: @annapickard Hope you're feeling somewhat better now. Was lovely to see you yesterday. Incidentally, http://bit.ly/aL0aGH
22.08.2010 17.27.47
adactio: @Natbat Here, have some hungover owls to calm you down: http://hungoverowls.tumblr.com/
22.08.2010 17.17.23
dracos:
bounder: fuckyeahtumblr as tumblr would say via @duncautumnstore ,@griefoftwats: , @rigsy: http://hungoverowls.tumblr.com/
22.08.2010 15.26.22
nevali:
Glinner: You will never forget where you were when you first witnessed the HUNGOVER OWLS
http://hungoverowls.tumblr.com (via @rigsy & @psycatron)
22.08.2010 15.04.33
felix_cohen: RT @codepo8 Proper LOLS http://hungoverowls.tumblr.com/ << this has basically been my day
22.08.2010 14.42.36
thoroughlygood: Sweden. Do please make up your mind. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11049316 #assange #wikileaks
21.08.2010 10.03.28
Dan_10v11: The Swedish Prosecution Authority have got some explaining to do. http://is.gd/euAXy. This is not really sufficient http://is.gd/euB3T
21.08.2010 09.32.49
davewiner: BBC News - Swedish rape warrant for Wikileaks' Assange cancelled. http://r2.ly/9kvg
21.08.2010 09.20.15
jeffjarvis: Rape allegations against Assange unfounded; warrant withdrawn: http://bbc.in/bjLqJf
21.08.2010 08.52.47
bbcnews: An arrest warrant for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange on accusations of rape and molestation is abruptly cance.. http://bbc.in/95Fk5l
21.08.2010 08.50.09
ifenn: Wikileaks rape arrest warrant cancelled http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11049316
21.08.2010 08.49.16
bbctech: An arrest warrant for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange on accusations of rape and molestation is cancelle.. http://bbc.in/95Fk5l
21.08.2010 08.40.30
barrymcgee: Wikileaks founder Julian Assange accused of rape - http://bbc.in/cStmxn
21.08.2010 03.42.54
sicross:
bbctech: Swedish officials say they have issued an arrest warrant for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange on accusati.. http://bbc.in/cfiM7H
21.08.2010 03.40.27
davewiner: BBC News - Wikileaks founder Julian Assange accused of rape. http://r2.ly/zzwe
21.08.2010 03.38.44
bbcnews: Swedish officials say they have issued an arrest warrant for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange on accusations of.. http://bbc.in/cfiM7H
21.08.2010 03.20.09
BBC_on_Blogs: A new home for the BBC Archive - From About The BBC (NR) http://ow.ly/18EvzT
20.08.2010 05.30.55
sophiebr: BBC's Peter Skinner blogs about moving the 3.7million items in the #BBCArchive to a new home http://bbc.in/aDLd4C
20.08.2010 01.11.05
Briantist: #Free #TV #news A new home for the BBC Archive - A new home for the BBC Archive http://ow.ly/18Exrt
20.08.2010 05.23.49
Minesy:
AboutTheBBC: #BBCArchive Peter Skinner blogs about moving the 3.7million items in the BBC Archive to a new home http://bbc.in/aDLd4C
20.08.2010 00.30.11
huey: RT @BBCRadio4: How about 'a complete broadcast history of the BBC'? BBC Genome is an awesome new archive project: http://bbc.in/b6jzsb (SB)
20.08.2010 03.19.08
onpause:
rooreynolds: "a complete broadcast history of the BBC" - http://bbc.in/9tUoiH <- oh yes.
19.08.2010 10.55.26
JemStone: Can't begin to tell you how excited I'm abt this particular BBC project http://bbc.in/9tUoiH #bbarchive #radiotimes: the first and only RT
19.08.2010 10.29.02
moustaki: RT @jonathantweed About the BBC blog post on BBC Genome. I worked on the pilot: http://bbc.in/dhLKJL
19.08.2010 07.51.34
suellewellyn: RT @BBCRadio4: How about 'a complete broadcast history of the BBC'? BBC Genome is an awesome new archive project: http://bbc.in/b6jzsb (SB)
20.08.2010 03.26.43
BBCRadio4: How about 'a complete broadcast history of the BBC'? BBC Genome is an awesome new archive project: http://bbc.in/b6jzsb (SB)
20.08.2010 03.15.36
theunthinkables: RT @rooreynolds: BBCGenome - "a complete broadcast history of the BBC" - http://bbc.in/9tUoiH
19.08.2010 11.00.52
maggiephilbin: Access to hidden gems RT @JemStone Can't begin to tell you how excited I'm abt this BBC project http://bbc.in/9tUoiH #bbarchive #radiotimes
19.08.2010 10.42.35
Briantist: #Free #TV #news BBC Genome The Complete Broadcast History of the BBC http://ow.ly/18DQP7
19.08.2010 10.26.24
brettsr: Eye-opening blog post on the hypothesis that the papers believe only attractive girls do A-Levels http://bit.ly/ceGL6E (via @observerowl)
19.08.2010 06.08.09
alanconnor: "Exploring the hypothesis that UK newspapers believe that only attractive girls in lowcut tops do A-Levels": http://sexyalevels.tumblr.com/
19.08.2010 04.53.46
LDN: Sexy A-levels: exploring the hypothesis that newspapers believe that only attractive girls in low cut tops do exams http://bit.ly/cp76r9
19.08.2010 04.50.56
Article_Dan:
bowbrick:
bounder: Actually very few "low cut tops" on http://sexyalevels.tumblr.com/ disappointed
19.08.2010 10.21.49
CharlieBeckett:
mccandelish: Sexy A-levels: documentary evidence that only attractive girls in low cut tops do exams http://bit.ly/cp76r9 #sexyalevels
19.08.2010 10.10.43
mrchrisaddison: RT @DrEvanHarris: Everyone must keep up with this record of this year's Y-chromosome-free A level coverage http://sexyalevels.tumblr.com
19.08.2010 09.49.30
rhodri: Sexy A Levels http://sexyalevels.tumblr.com is really doing sterling work, today. Bravo.
19.08.2010 08.01.38
flashboy: Sterling work today on http://sexyalevels.tumblr.com/ from @JoeTheDough and @qwghlm.
19.08.2010 07.16.39
paulcarvill: RT @agentdeal Behold, a chronicle of newspapers' obsession with nubile A-level passers: http://sexyalevels.tumblr.com/ (via @pauldegregorio)
19.08.2010 05.58.55
WiredUK: RT @tomcheshire: WIRED: Chicken sitting http://bit.ly/agRQrR TIRED: A-levels taken exclusively by blondes - http://sexyalevels.tumblr.com/
19.08.2010 05.46.22
catfunt:
tweetminster: "A blog exploring the hypothesis that UK newspapers believe that only attractive girls in low cut tops do A-Levels" http://goo.gl/MKuC
19.08.2010 04.46.43
zsk: #A-levels -cliched pix collated by @JoeTheDough http://sexyalevels.tumblr.com/ conclusion: be female, wear lowcut top and jump to get press.
19.08.2010 04.43.12
jackschofield: By the way, the hand-wringing middle class male feminist behind http://sexyalevels.tumblr.com/ is @JoeTheDough
19.08.2010 04.20.10
MrsBunz: @leylandrichard oh, you too. isn't it fantastic? makes me proud of the internet. - Sexy A Levels? http://sexyalevels.tumblr.com/
19.08.2010 04.11.45
MrsBunz: Haha. Brilliant. All today's leaping A-level blondes in one place http://sexyalevels.tumblr.com (via @chrismoranuk @Colbear @JonathanHaynes)
19.08.2010 04.07.48
jackschofield: RT @katebevan heh. Love this (hat tip @MatthewWells) http://sexyalevels.tumblr.com/
19.08.2010 03.49.15
stedavies: RT @AmyRJohnston: RT @timesjoanna: A-Level results day = attractive blonde-haired females jumping for joy. http://bit.ly/cR1DUZ - Ha so true
19.08.2010 03.35.04
qwghlm: BTW http://sexyalevels.tumblr.com/ is taking submissions - hashtag them #sexyalevels & it'll get picked up
19.08.2010 03.17.46
timesjoanna: Ahhh A-Level results day - a day of attractive blonde-haired females awkwardly jumping for joy. http://sexyalevels.tumblr.com/ (via...
19.08.2010 02.58.43
jaggeree:
garyandrews: Genius! RT @qwghlm: It's that time of year again - http://sexyalevels.tumblr.com/ returns!
19.08.2010 02.39.56
tommorris:
CharlieBeckett: RT @aliunwin this is brilliant http://sexyalevels.tumblr.com/<apparently boys don't get A Levels
19.08.2010 02.21.42
CharlieBeckett: RT aliunwin this is brilliant http://sexyalevels.tumblr.com/<apparently boys don't get A Levels
19.08.2010 02.20.39
Glinner:
shinykatie: LOL RT @robmanuel: Sexy A-levels. A popular link this time last year - maybe it's worth a few RTs today. http://sexyalevels.tumblr.com/
19.08.2010 01.55.19
rhodri: Let's not forget http://sexyalevels.tumblr.com (via @robmanuel) and this startling anomaly from The Guardian in 2005: http://goo.gl/jF8r
19.08.2010 01.50.28
IanDouglas:
robmanuel: Sexy A-levels. A popular link this time last year - maybe it's worth a few RTs today. http://sexyalevels.tumblr.com/
19.08.2010 01.10.34
BBC_on_Blogs: Tech Weekly: In the BBC archive - From Guardian Technology (NR) http://ow.ly/18CDmS
18.08.2010 05.32.30
ChrisHDJones: RT @jemimakiss: We're really, pleased with this - exploring the tech side of the BBC Archives: Tech Weekly podcast: http://bit.ly/ccVSl9
18.08.2010 04.37.00
sophiebr:
jemimakiss: We're really, really pleased with this - exploring the tech side of the BBC Archives: Tech Weekly podcast: http://bit.ly/ccVSl9
18.08.2010 04.35.05
sophiebr: This week's Guardian Tech podcast is dedicated to digitising the unique #BBCArchive. Roly Keating & others interviewed- http://bit.ly/bHpEXf
18.08.2010 04.27.00
adew:
adew:
jemimakiss: MediaGuardian >> Tech Weekly podcast: In the BBC archive http://bit.ly/ccVSl9
18.08.2010 03.39.23
scott_cawley: sorry to mention my own work, but this was my most enjoyable thing for years - the digital future for the #BBCarchive - http://bit.ly/d7Z63L
18.08.2010 06.30.37
meeware: RT @jemimakiss: We're really pleased with this - exploring the tech side of the BBC Archives: Tech Weekly podcast: http://bit.ly/ccVSl9
18.08.2010 05.05.21
catfunt:
AboutTheBBC: #BBCArchive This week’s Guardian Tech Weekly podcast is a BBC Archive special http://bit.ly/bHpEXf
18.08.2010 04.31.52
Minesy:
phillipsmatt: This week's Guardian Tech Podcast - a #bbcarchive special. BBC's Roly Keating and others interviewed http://gu.com/p/2j4q6/tw
18.08.2010 04.13.21
billt:
meeware: RT @guardiantech: Tech Weekly podcast: In the BBC archive http://bit.ly/cqriMX
18.08.2010 03.54.59
medianooze: Television News: Tech Weekly podcast: In the BBC archive http://bit.ly/bvHsmJ #medianews
18.08.2010 03.48.42
almostwitty: My Twifficiency score is 35%. Whats yours? http://twifficiency.com/
17.08.2010 02.53.13
thoroughlygood: My Twifficiency score is 45%. Whats yours? http://twifficiency.com/
17.08.2010 02.43.19
dansumption: My Twifficiency score is 45%. Whats yours? http://twifficiency.com/
17.08.2010 03.58.59
DarenBBC: RT @DarenBBC: My Twifficiency score is 39%. Whats yours? http://bit.ly/bareBn - didn't tell me it would autotweet #Fail
17.08.2010 02.56.34
ruskin147: http://gu.com/p/2j2zg/ip great piece by @charlesarthur on school IT - often little more than Word
16.08.2010 23.53.30
leebryant:
Coneee: Kids being taught how to use computers but not how to create with them http://j.mp/aRXT9f via @jbaldwin excellent article by @charlesarthur
17.08.2010 00.31.09
tweetminster: "Will the loss of Becta give schools a fresh chance to make technology click?" http://bit.ly/dhpV3G - The Guardian
17.08.2010 00.05.34
Scobleizer:
charlesarthur: By me @ Guardian: Will the loss of Becta give schools a fresh chance to make technology click? http://bit.ly/da4C3b #fb
16.08.2010 23.26.28
guardiantech: Will the loss of Becta give schools a fresh chance to make technology click? http://bit.ly/9s1B3z
16.08.2010 23.20.23
mydogminton: No Fitzgerald. Always too drunk? RT @dogwinters BBC publishes sound archive of British novelists in their own words: http://bbc.in/dpVOyJ
16.08.2010 06.41.26
dogwinters: BBC publishes sound archive of British novelists in their own words: http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/writers/
16.08.2010 06.30.25
digidickinson:
infobunny: [protected tweet]
16.08.2010 06.46.52
hemmysphere: BBC publishes sound archive of British novelists in their own words: http://bbc.in/dpVOyJ (via @dogwinters)
16.08.2010 06.45.11
IanMartin:
ArchiveAtBBC: New from BBC Archive - interviews with 40 British novelists: http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/writers/
16.08.2010 04.30.22
tomcoates:
Thayer:
nevali:
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Reynolds:
timd: I know absolutely FA about homeopathy, so by to homeopathic principles that'll make me the best candidate for the job http://dlvr.it/3qj6Q
15.08.2010 13.33.22
timd: RT @bengoldacre: NHS Tayside sack 500 staff, advertise £68k homeopath post: I think all the sacked ppl shld apply http://dlvr.it/3qj6Q
15.08.2010 13.25.53
tom_watson:
bengoldacre: NHS Tayside sack 500 staff, advertise £68k homeopath post: I think all the sacked ppl shld apply http://dlvr.it/3qj6Q
15.08.2010 12.58.17
Documentally: Good work @TomScott http://bit.ly/dbcVzG Thanks for the heads up @loudmouthman I'd like some of these..
15.08.2010 01.30.04
loudmouthman: . @TomScott is my kind of hero: http://bit.ly/dbcVzG (@Documentally I think you'll love them too) now how do I put them on the BBC website ?
15.08.2010 00.27.50
jaggeree: RT @mathewi: in case you haven't seen them already, @tomscott has made some wonderful "journalism warning stickers": http://j.mp/a9jpLf
14.08.2010 08.19.12
jjn1:
ToastMaster:
Glinner: This passed me by yesterday. Journalism warning labels. http://fwd4.me/L71
14.08.2010 02.55.45
davewiner:
mccandelish: Journalism warning labels http://bit.ly/aOLVs0 by @tomscott. What about some positive labels Tom? Not all journalism is shitehaus.
13.08.2010 13.17.44
jeffjarvis: Let me just add to the chorus: The warning labels are wonderful: http://bit.ly/bUP0EM
13.08.2010 11.43.09
maggiephilbin:
jackschofield: Journalism Warning Labels: totally excellent http://dlvr.it/3lL6f (via @kevglobal @bengoldacre)
13.08.2010 06.44.15
christydena:
kevglobal: Journalism Warning Labels: totally excellent http://dlvr.it/3lL6f (via @bengoldacre) << the following could be dangerous to your media diet
13.08.2010 06.42.09
TomWhitwell:
megpickard: Ha! @tomscott made some funny 'parental advisory'-style stickers for dodgy journalism http://tomscott.com/warnings/
13.08.2010 06.04.31
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