Mashed
It been a long week at work after Mashed at the weekend. Things were a bit less chaotic in Alexandra Palace this year and from a personal perspective they almost couldn’t have been more different. In a...
View ArticleThe Black Version
As you may already know the iPlayer Facebook application is now gone, for two reasons: It was broken horribly by the launch of iPlayer 2.0 More importantly, it couldn’t compete with the new iPlayer as...
View ArticleThere’s no such thing as the archive
Imagine if the BBC was created today. Imagine what it would be like if it was born into this world of the semantic web, linked data and always on, high bandwidth connections. Programmes would be...
View ArticleWhat is PIPs?
I’m very proud to say that I’ve just had my first post published on the BBC Internet blog: BBC Internet Blog – What is PIPs? Hopefully it will be the first of many.
View ArticleBBC iPlayer for Apple TV: An Update
Last week I blogged about how I’d been working on a way to use BBC iPlayer on my Apple TV. At the request of the BBC, my employer, the plugin is no longer available. The BBC raised concerns around deep...
View ArticleTelling Stories
I spent some time this afternoon in an edit suite in Belfast Broadcasting House. Some of what I watched, all of it in fact, was pretty powerful stuff. Footage of British soldiers on the streets,...
View ArticleTop 10 search terms to this blog over the last 90 days
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View ArticleLooking back on Backstage
So, BBC Backstage is sadly no more. Today the BBC released a beautifully compiled ebook retrospective of the last five years. There’s also a great article by Jemima Kiss over at the Guardian. I’m...
View ArticleiPlayer, Accessibility and Apple TV
With the launch today of the iPlayer iPad app (poor @geofftech) I thought it was a good time to write an update on using iPlayer in the wider iOS ecosystem. I promise that this is the last time I will...
View ArticleI’m Leaving the BBC
After much consideration, and with a little sadness and some regret, I’ve decided to leave the BBC. In the four and a half years I’ve been here I’ve had the opportunity to work on some fantastic...
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