Jason,
that is mad and fantastic..
Text in a large font for a similar area of screen estate may be
equally abstract...
Police 'stormed in like burglars' we may know where, but....
the photo of M below says far more than the text, but best is both ~:"
regards
Jonathan Chetwynd
On 13 Jun 2006, at 09:47, Jason Cartwright wrote:
> In fact, I think there was a blog about this, which poked fun at
the BBC’s stock image usage – bunny something or another.
There is the rather fantastic "Am I Abstract Or Not"...
http://amiabstractornot.highlyillogical.org/
J
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Subject: RE: [backstage] feeds with live graphics?
I believe the majority of the images on the News site aren’t taken by
the BBC themselves – in other words, they don’t have a team of roving
photographers dispatched to news story locations. Many of them come
from picture agencies such as the PA, AFP, Getty Images and the AP to
name but a few, where the BBC would pay a licence fee to use it on
line – and I am sure the agreements in place come with many strings
attached.
I think the other sources of images on the BBC’s site are either
grabs from footage or something else, or images submitted by the
general public. And then there’s the slightly naff stock photography
they use – I think the Technology section has to be one of the worst
offenders at this; how many times have I seen that hand on the mouse,
that man at that old computer tilted at an angle or close up of the
warning labels on a keyboard wire at the back of a computer. Or,
whenever there’s something legal that’s ongoing or doesn’t have any
relevant images, out comes the generic photoshopped picture of the
justice scales. In fact, I think there was a blog about this, which
poked fun at the BBC’s stock image usage – bunny something or another.
Like Graham said, placing these images in a feed wouldn’t necessarily
be helpful at all, especially with the generic stock images.
- C
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Subject: Re: [backstage] feeds with live graphics?
Generally the images don't belong to the BBC per se, so they can't re-
distribute them.
Besides, you'd have to question the relevance of the thumbnail images
anyway :-
How does a picture of a woman with a dodgy perm help you understand
that the NHS has agreed to fund an anti-cancer treatment ? or a
picture of a beardy man explain the situation in Iraq ?
If people had problems reading the text of the stories then those
images would only confuse them more.
On 6/9/06, Jonathan Chetwynd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Where are the feeds with live graphics?
About One in Five people in the UK is functionally illiterate**, they
need and benefit from images.
http://www.peepo.co.uk/mybbc/grab.png is how a simple css user style
sheet can transform http://news.bbc.co.uk however for the present it
would be great if a feed could provide something similar.
cheers
Jonathan Chetwynd
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