Blame the BBC for Britain's digital divide
This just in: BBC "journalist" files non-story about iPhone vapourware For once I'm actually glad that the BBC doesn't allow people to embed its iPlayer content, because I wouldn't want to sully the...
View ArticleCopenhagen: You're all unreasonable, selfish and insane. Now shut up and let...
I just had the unexpected pleasure of listening to Health Check on the BBC World Service (one of the benefits of insomnia and a bedside radio). As part of the world + dog's focus on the climate summit...
View ArticleMake a choice. Complain about the BBC or digital switchover, but not both
Analogue television in the UK is broadcast between 470MHz and 854MHz. Apart from a couple of gaps used by radar and emergency services, the five terrestrial channels take up all of that space. It’s...
View ArticleCould top BBC programmes survive on pay-per-view?
A comment from Daniel Earwicker on my last blog post about the BBC suggested scrapping the licence fee and making iPlayer a pay-per-view service. ‘A few pennies from each viewer would easily cover the...
View ArticleAndroids get iPlayer, overseas version to be 'tailored for different audiences'
The BBC got round to releasing its iPlayer app for Android devices in February, soothing a sore point for people who don’t like Apple. There was a version of the iPlayer made for the iPad before the...
View ArticleFacebook isn't censoring posts on NHS protests because, frankly, they aren't...
Last night, there was a minor internet furore after a Bristol-based blogger claimed her blog posts about a clever NHS privatisation protest were being censored by Facebook. I can't quite believe I'm...
View ArticleWe may never know the true cost of the BBC's latest disaster – but it'll be a...
Last Friday, the BBC scrapped a huge technology project – the so-called Digital Media Initiative (DMI). The BBC admitted it had wasted £100 million worth of licence payers' money on a system that has...
View ArticleNew technology at the BBC means it now has an excuse to kill the wretched...
Describing his role as the first general manager of the BBC – a much better title than Director General – Lord Reith said: [I was] confronted with problems of which I had no experience: copyright and...
View ArticleBBC Radio 1 is too desperate to be 'down with the kids' to condemn illegal...
Last week, after four years of wrangling, the entertainment industry and associated tech companies announced plans to tackle illegal downloading – a scourge on the industry which costs it untold...
View ArticleI know climate change nuts are annoying, Lord Lawson. But sadly, they're right
I know, Lord Lawson, I know: climate change activists are some of the most irritating people on God’s green earth. It’s that weird combination of moral preciousness and crackpot disregard for everyone...
View ArticleI love the BBC, but can it stop locking up poor people?
When I worked at the BBC, I was lucky enough to learn my trade under an outstandingly frugal boss. Whenever we asked for anything, he'd always cost it out in terms of how many licence fees the thing in...
View ArticleBlame the BBC for Britain's digital divide
This just in: BBC "journalist" files non-story about iPhone vapourware For once I'm actually glad that the BBC doesn't allow people to embed its iPlayer content, because I wouldn't want to sully the...
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