[backstage] Competition Commission bounces Project Kangeroo

2009-02-04 Thread Jeremy James
See http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7869181.stm A victory or a loss for consumer choice? -jeremy P.S. Also; opportunities for a marsupial pun thread. - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit

[backstage] Digital Britain report - Paragraph level commenting

2009-02-04 Thread Tony Hirst
Taking inspiration from the way DIUS have been using Commentpress to encourage people to comment on various government reports, here's a community sourced attempt to do the same for Digital Britain - The Interim Report http://writetoreply.org/digitalbritain/ It's built using a Wordpress MU

RE: [backstage] Competition Commission bounces Project Kangeroo

2009-02-04 Thread Andrew Pipes
by opening up some data about their services and allowing 3rd party aggregators (assuming rights holders don't spit tacks over the idea). I agree with the idea of opening up more meta data. video assets are trickier when ads come into play though. who would sell the advertising, where