around the 24/1/07 Steve Watkins mentioned about [videoblogging] Re: Help Retrieving Google, YouTube and oth that: >Cheers, well, in an optimistic moment the BBC will play an important >role in pushing some boundaries in the UK at least. In the past they >have stuck their toe in the water with things like letting VJs remix & >use some of their archive clips for non-commercial purposes (although >it with their own license which was inspired by creative commons but >more restrictive in various ways, eg UK people only).
the BBC have been popping up at pretty much every event I've been to recently, largely because in places that have state media (everywhere except the United States I guess) the BBC are the benchmark, particularly in what they're doing online. RSS, podcasting, and so on, they got in early. They have announced that all tv content will be freely available online, with some DRM attached, simply because "there is nothing in the charter of the BBC that says to watch this program you have to be at home at 6pm on a Monday night". Now, for a national broadcaster, that's a pretty refreshing approach :-) They have a lot of projects that now use what I guess we'd call web 2 stuff for regional and local storytelling, etc. It's impressive as these sorts of institutions are often quite conservative (they have also realigned internally so that distinctions between media are being dissolved, you don't do radio, you do sport, and it will be www, radio and tv for example). For someone who teaches in media this is revolutionary, most staff I work with still think that radio is radio is radio, for example. Anyway, I like their approach to their content, it's paid for by tax payers so they see their role as providing as much access to this as possible. That's cool. -- cheers Adrian Miles this email is bloggable [ ] ask first [ ] private [x] hypertext.RMIT <URL:http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/admin/briefEmail.html >
