Re: [backstage] Clay Shirky: Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable

2009-03-30 Thread Billy Abbott
On Sun, 29 Mar 2009, Tim Dobson wrote: I suspect that specialist areas of journalism will remain - sailing magazines for instance won't stop employing people to write about new yachts and dinghies, but I suspect some of the more general publications will need to adapt their business model or

Re: [backstage] Clay Shirky: Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable

2009-03-30 Thread Rob Myers
European Newspapers Find Creative Ways to Thrive in the Internet Age PARIS — As the death toll in the American newspaper industry mounted this month, the German publisher Axel Springer, which owns Bild, the biggest newspaper in Europe, reported the highest profit in its 62-year history.

Re: [backstage] Clay Shirky: Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable

2009-03-30 Thread Tim Dobson
Billy Abbott wrote: I think that niche journalism is one of the first places to suffer. That's a good point. :) I'll have to go back on myself and say we'll just have to see... I guess it somewhat depends what you call a blog. Basically a blog can be pretty much any sequential line of posts

RE: [backstage] IMDA metadata

2009-03-30 Thread Alan Ogilvie
Sorry it's the 30th of March... but I just wanted to make a note of the BBCs involvement within the IMDA. Currently the BBC is a member of the Steering Group, and has provided a Technical rep on the technical committee. This is being headed up by BBC Audio Music Interactive. As the other email

[backstage] RE: BBC WorldSerice Radio schedules disappeared

2009-03-30 Thread Paul Webster
Situation has now changed - but still broken. On Sunday it was redirecting to a general error page within the schedules system - now it says: Monday 30 March 2009 Sorry, there are no broadcasts for this day. Please choose an alternative date from the calendar. but it is now showing material

RE: [backstage] RE: BBC WorldSerice Radio schedules disappeared

2009-03-30 Thread Thomas Leitch
Hi Paul, Thanks for letting us know - we're looking into the problem as I type. It relates to a rather crusty old scheduling system we have in the World Service (soon to be replaced), that feeds schedules into an intermediary system in order to create iPlayer schedules. Unfortunately clock

[backstage] New Blog in beta

2009-03-30 Thread Ian Forrester
We wanted to share it with the community first... http://welcomebackstage.com/ Its still in beta and there will be links which point to the old site. But its live and running. We are publishing to both places but that will change once we change the backstage.bbc.co.uk domain. We decided to