links for 2009-07-06

"'As a UK broadcasting industry, we are at a crossroads - when the Competition Commission decided that Project Kangaroo was not going to be allowed, it basically opened the door for large American corporations to establish Project Kangaroo, but in US hands,' says Erik Huggers, the BBC's director of future media and technology". Did we score yet another domestic regulatory own goal in the face of a global digital economy?

"Assange thinks the problem is a more fundamental failure of traditional journalism, citing the fact that 50 stories were written about Wikileaks putting the Chávez regime emails online, but none about the contents of the 6,700 messages".

There is something simply brilliant about the fact that landing on the moon was part of the Cold War Space Race, yet 40 years later I or anyone else can simply subscribe in an RSS reader to new photos of the moon as they are being beamed back to earth.

A rather robust introduction to the kind of comments you can attract as a BBC staffer who blogs for Row, who, as ever, deals with it delightfully.

"A story about the now teenage survivors of the Dunblane Massacre, that appeared in the Scottish Sunday Express earlier this year, has been severely rebuked by the Press Complaints Commission. Yesterday, the paper carried, on most of page 12, the PCC adjudication which, among things, talked of 'a serious error of judgement on the part of the newspaper'".

On Twitter Ian Mansfield raised the point "If the details of the story are true, how did the civil service obtain the data from TheyWorkForYou.com?"

Matthew makes an interesting set of points here - but I'd add #6 No concentrated marketing around a single track from his label. Previously when we've seen the like of Elvis or John Lennon die, their record company would flood shops with stocks of *one* 7" single, and if you wanted to go to a shop to pay your tribute, you pretty much only had the *one* in stock 7" to choose from. If Sony had made all of Jackson's digital catalogue 'album only' except for one or two individual single tracks, I think they would have made the push for #1 easily.

So jealous of everyone who got to see this - Kraftwerk, 3D video show and real Team GB cyclists all in one evening.

The comments underneath this article are one of the most depressing sets of UGC I've read in a long time.

Here is what Tim Clarke, one of the BBC Glasto 407, was up to. Makes some very interesting points along the way about rights issues restricting the coverage *even when you are the official broadcast partner*

The fourth installment of this BBC blogs saga.

Imogen Heap bidding £10m for her own promo CD, sealed, which it appears a journalist is selling directly on eBay. In my day they just sold them straight to me at Reckless.