Interesting Stuff 15.04.08
|11:04 UK time, Tuesday, 15 April 2008
Jemima Kiss has the runners and riders to replace Ashley Highfield, with comment at the Guardian's PDA blog and BBC Backstage.
Away from the gossip, Neil Berkett of Virgin Media has written a forthright article about ISPs and broadband costs for the Royal Television Society's Television magazine. The article is not available online, but it's set off some very heated and (I warn you) tasteless comment at Torrent Freak blog.
Aqute Research asks an unusual question: Why Should The BBC Help UK Start Ups?.
Social Reporter blogs about the costs of the BBC's Action Network.
Matt Deegan on Radio 1's use of Facebook events.
And in Miami, Karen Loasby of the FM&T Information Architecture team is speaking at the Information Architecture Summit. Martin Belam blogs it.
Nick Reynolds is editor, BBC Internet Blog.
Comments
Interesting point on the Virgin thing; Anthony Rose's post below about the iPlayer on PS3 seems to express the idea that the BBC wants users to get the best possible experience of the iPlayer, or none at all. If that's the case, will you be blocking Virgin users so they don't get a poor service on the same principle that you try to block PS3 users now?
FYI - The Aqute Research blog is actually based on my original TechCrunch UK post, linked to above.
Re the Neil Berkett of Virgin Media piece.
“Virgin is already in the process of doing deals to speed up the traffic of certain media providers.” Virgin’s CEO “then turned on the BBC and their iPlayer service, telling them - and other public broadcasters like them - that if they don’t pay a premium to gain faster access to Virgin Media’s customers, their service would be put into “bus lanes”.
I think you should tell iPlayer users if an ISP is deliberately slowing down iPlayer traffic ~ and let them know those that are not. That way it’s clear to the user why a particular service may be slow, and gives consumers choice.