Posted: Friday, April 18, 2008 at 2:22 pm
Last night I saw The Digg Reel - a video from Revision3 which looks at the most popular videos on social news site, Digg.
The source of the videos is credited, but often just as YouTube.com or Break.com. I’ve noticed this in several places, especially TV news channels. Last year BBC News 24 showed the spoof iPhone advert from Late Night with Conan O’Brien (inexplicably removed from YouTube by NBC, despite the huge popularity of that skit) twice, yet only credited one showing, and that was “from YouTube.com”. You could even hear the audience laughter at the end of the video as it was shown on News 24.
Sky wouldn’t dream of waiting for someone to upload a BBC interview, and then download it and credit YouTube. Infact, when dealing in their own content the BBC and Sky clearly credit each other, down to the title of the show. Yet news outlets appear fairly happy to use and credit YouTube videos rather than the original source.
Radio 4’s PM is guilty of doing the same. Last year they used clips from The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, again including the audience laughter, but removed Stewart and didn’t credit the show. It wouldn’t have been inconceivable for the BBC to get the same clips which the TDS crew did of Hillary Clinton…
Posted: Friday, April 18, 2008 at 1:55 pm
April marks changes for the UK’s two main news channels; BBC News 24 and Sky News. Sky refreshed their graphics, and the BBC have been gradually introducing a new look to most of their outputs. I’ll cover those two (and CNN, France 24 et al) over the next week or so.
BBC World
In recent years the BBC’s international news channel, BBC World, has reflected the graphics and style of BBC News 24. Indeed, this week BBC News 24 has been using the BBC World set between 9.30pm and 10pm and I suspect most won’t have noticed the small differences in the neighbour studio (the background, the silver border on the large screens, a slightly smaller desk, etc).
BBC World: March 23rd, 2005
Whilst typically seen in hotels around the world, BBC World is also available in the UK via a Hotbird satellite. The typical Sky equipment is capable of displaying the channel (if the dish is aligned accordingly), and the kits often sold in Maplin and Aldi allow users to be watching the news channel within minutes, completely legitimately.
BBC World: April 30th, 2006
Some slight updates to the graphics here. The WORLD has become bigger (in terms of this logo, not in general) and the ticker is simply black and white. The headline also becomes thinner, as will be shown in an upcoming post on News 24.
BBC World: January 23rd, 2008
The current (for now) graphics for BBC World. It’s interesting to note that BBC World does not use a clock, yet the BBC World Service (and World Service English News) does mention the time (according to GMT) several times an hour.
Posted: Friday, April 4, 2008 at 10:59 am
Just a quick post… The battery in my Dell Inspiron is fried. It’s been my main computer for around 18 months now and the battery has given up - holding less and less charge every month. Now Vista says there’s no battery at all - quite a pain if you want to take it through to another room, or hibernate whilst you take it in to town.
In fairness, the laptop has been fantastic and has Vista, XP and Ubuntu installed. I have no urge at all to replace it or buy a desktop machine, and have been thinking about scrapping the XP partition having not booted into it for months.
Looking on Dell’s website, another battery the same is £184.90 inc postage and VAT. However, when I looked at an Eee PC over Christmas it was only £200 odd. The Inspiron is very nice, but quite heavy to carry around and not at all easy to use on the train. I can get by with eeeXubuntu just fine on the move, too. The only thing is whether to wait and see where the new 9″ screen model will be priced and how heavy it will be?
Any thoughts?
