links for 2008-05-30

"In a move away from the conclusions of the last review of bbc.co.uk, undertaken by Philip Graf in 2004, Wakefield says the BBC Trust does not think the website should take on online rivals such as Google by focusing on become an external search engine."

"Whoever allowed such thoughtless idiocy should be sent to a gulag" is perhaps a little harsh, but Andy is spot on about how careless TV, press, marketing and PR people are with spoilers these days.

"IETester is a separate browser that allows you to select the rendering engine to use with each tab you open. My quick and dirty testing seems to indicate that it’s doing what it promises". Oh, maybe I could finally fix my IE6 comment display bug on currybetdotnet.

"A new service from Mefeedia: News Video Search 'Mefeedia News'. It aggregates embeddable video from over 500 news sources. The searchable videos are then grouped by topics."

"The full report has a wealth of detail about the BBC’s online activities. The Trust has also made available a range of reports it gathered as part of the review". Hopefully Alfred is going to blog them all so I won't have to read 'em. ;-)

"As Antcliff points out, it’s alarming that other media did not check the facts of the article before republishing it and the spread of the story proves he knows what he’s doing when it comes to optimising content."

"Perhaps, in these days of instant news and increased competition from any number of independent sites and individual bloggers, the need to get a story out as quickly as possible over-rides basic journalism training". Or maybe people just notice easier?

"Buried in the BBC Trust’s review of bbc.co.uk is some revealing information about how the corporation has adopted blogging". Yay! Alfred *is* going to blog the whole report so I don't have to read it!

On a somewhat random date somewhere between them starting and finishing I note

I missed this rather brave attempt by Mat to actually try and explain to the masses the insane notion and policy assumptions behind Barley. I used to chair a tech working group which debated this kind of thing. Oh happy days...