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Social media and TV news: Measuring social media success
Over the last week I've been publishing a series of articles looking at the social media performance of the websites belonging to some 24 hour news channels, including CNN, the BBC, Sky News, Al Jazeera, Russia Today, Euronews and France 24. The results have been derived from a thirty day study I carried out in July and August 2008, taking half-hourly snapshots of Delicious, Digg, Fark, Mixx, Newsvine, Reddit, StumbleUpon and Yahoo! Buzz to look for prominent media URLs....

Read the full post - Published September 27, 2008 in BBC, CNN, Social media, Television

Social media and TV news: Measuring the social media success of Russia Today, Euronews and France 24
This week's series of posts on currybetdotnet have been looking at the performances of 24 hour news channel websites like CNN, BBC News, Sky News and Al Jazeera on social media websites. Today I wanted to look at 3 other stations that featured as part of my social media survey - Russia Today, Euronews and France 24. Russia Today on Reddit During the course of the month's study I only saw content from the Russia Today website on five...

Read the full post - Published September 26, 2008 in Social media, Television

Social media and TV news: Measuring Al Jazeera's success with social media
This week I've been examining the social media success of the website belonging to some major 24 hour news television stations. So far I've looked at impressive performances from the BBC and CNN, each with over 300 links going popular across 8 services during the course of a month. Yesterday I looked at a more modest performance by Sky News, and today it is the turn of the English language version of Qatar-based Al Jazeera. Newsvine During my study...

Read the full post - Published September 25, 2008 in Social media, Television

Social media and TV news: Measuring CNN's success with social media
During the course of July and August I set up a project to monitor the performance of major media sites on social bookmarking and link sharing services. Every 30 minutes I took snapshots of the front pages or 'recently popular' pages of Delicious, Digg, Fark, Mixx, Newsvine, Reddit, StumbleUpon and Yahoo! Buzz. I then extracted from that the popular URLs from a range of newspaper and television channel websites. You can read about the results for British newspapers in...

Read the full post - Published September 22, 2008 in CNN, Social media, Television

Watching Euro2008 on Zattoo in the heart of the BBC
As you may have spotted in my post about last week's TechCrunch / BBC debate at Broadcasting House, I attended it with one eye on what was going on in Basel. Thanks to wifi in the art deco Council Chamber where the debate was taking place, I was able to stream the first Euro2008 semi-final between Germany and Turkey silently on my laptop. The thing that struck me was that I used Zattoo to watch the game. At 7:40pm,...

Read the full post - Published July 1, 2008 in BBC, Euro2008, Football, Television, Web

"You're wired!" - 7 things The Apprentice can teach you about new media projects
I'd never watched The Apprentice until this year, when a procession of people we were staying with in London had it as unmissable 'appointment' television. I was immediately hooked, and once we got back to Greece, I had an unmissable 'appointment' to download the show as quickly as possible every Thursday morning, whilst trying to avoid 'spoilers' on the British media web. Throughout the series, I couldn't help thinking about the parallel lessons that could be drawn from the programme...

Read the full post - Published June 20, 2008 in Articles, Popular, Television

Zattoo (slight return)
With the climax of the Euro 2008 Group phase rapidly reaching its end, I thought it might be an idea to look again at Zattoo, the streaming TV service that gathers together all of Britain's terrestrial channels into one broadband player. What intrigues me about the service is the potential clash between sports rights holders, broadcasters and Zattoo. A month or so ago I used the example of the UEFA Cup Final, where Zattoo's streaming of ITV1 was, to my...

Read the full post - Published June 15, 2008 in Euro2008, Football, Television, Web

Zattoo and the rights holders - it is going to end in tears
I ended up watching last night's Euro Vase UEFA Cup Final rather randomly in a pub in Bayswater. Which turned out, in a Daily-Express-reader-nightmare-come-true, to be full of Zenit St. Petersburg supporters, rather than Little Englanders sticking up for our plucky North-of-the-border cousins. But I could have been watching it on Zattoo. It might sound like it could come from Eastern Europe, but Zattoo is actually a way of watching peer-to-peer delivered Internet streams of the UK's terrestrial free-to-air stations,...

Read the full post - Published May 15, 2008 in Football, Television, Web

Can you trust going to a 'Can you trust the media?' event for a good debate?
I've been lucky enough that whilst I've been in London for a month working, there have been a couple of interesting events that I have been able to go to. Last week it was Chinwag Live, and this week it was the launch of Adrian Monck's book "Can you trust the media?". It is some testament to the openness of media professionals in the UK that you could just walk into a college and go to a debate featuring big...

Read the full post - Published May 2, 2008 in Media, Newspapers, Radio, Television

70 years of televised F.A. Cup Finals
It seems that for many years now football pundits have been claiming that the F.A. Cup has lost its sparkle, and hasn't been living up to the tradition of the tournament. Various reasons are often cited for this - the abolition of replays, Manchester United refusing to take part in 2000, and the fact that nobody outside 'the big 4' has won it for a decade. It will be slightly different this year, as successive 'giant killings' have left us...

Read the full post - Published April 30, 2008 in BBC, Football, Television

Postcard from Macau #4: Hong Kong's missing TV archive

Published March 20, 2008 in BBC, Doctor Who, Macau, Television, Travelogue

The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Doctor Whoniverse

Published March 8, 2008 in BBC, Doctor Who, Radio, Television

The Buffy guide to the Internet - 1997 style

Published February 24, 2008 in Nostalgia, Popular, Television, Web

British television sci-fi is seventy today

Published February 11, 2008 in BBC, Nostalgia, Television

24/7 TV news websites: Part 16 - "Most Popular"

Published January 31, 2008 in Media, Television, Web

24/7 TV news websites: Part 15 - Lateral and related navigation II

Published January 30, 2008 in Media, Television, Web

24/7 TV news websites: Part 14 - Lateral and related navigation I

Published January 29, 2008 in Media, Television, Web, Widgets

24/7 TV news websites: Part 13 - Global navigation and classification

Published January 28, 2008 in Media, Television, Web

24/7 TV news websites: Part 12 - Search III

Published January 24, 2008 in BBC, CNN, France 24, Search, Television, Web

24/7 TV news websites: Part 11 - Search II

Published January 23, 2008 in France 24, Search, Television, Web

24/7 TV news websites: Part 10 - Search

Published January 22, 2008 in BBC, CNN, Search, Television, Web, Yahoo

24/7 TV news websites: Part 9 - Sky News

Published January 21, 2008 in Television, Web, Widgets

24/7 TV news websites: Part 8 - Russia Today

Published January 18, 2008 in Television, Web

24/7 TV news websites: Part 7 - ITN

Published January 17, 2008 in Television, Web

24/7 TV news websites: Part 6 - France 24

Published January 16, 2008 in France 24, Television, Web

24/7 TV news websites: Part 5 - Euronews

Published January 15, 2008 in Television, Web

24/7 TV news websites: Part 4 - CNN

Published January 11, 2008 in CNN, Television, Web

24/7 TV news websites: Part 3 - BBC

Published January 10, 2008 in BBC, Television, Web

24/7 TV news websites: Part 2 - Al Jazeera

Published January 9, 2008 in Television, Web

24/7 TV news websites: Part 1 - Introduction

Published January 8, 2008 in Articles, Media, Television, Web

Top Gear the second most popular downloaded TV show on BitTorrent

Published January 2, 2008 in BBC, Doctor Who, Television, iPlayer

I'm not convinced online voting shows Rhydian was robbed on X-Factor

Published December 17, 2007 in Blogging, Daily Mail, Television, Voting

Finding, sharing, and playing with that Tony Palmer BBC rejection letter

Published December 10, 2007 in BBC, Media, Music, Television

Life is sweet with UK Nova

Published December 9, 2007 in Television

"How do I get a refund for an ITV phone call?"

Published October 20, 2007 in Accessibility, Television

No news today from Five

Published October 19, 2007 in Television

A good day to bury bad broadcasting news?

Published October 18, 2007 in BBC, Television

3D Television wows me at the BBC Vision Multiplatform day

Published October 1, 2007 in BBC, Television

Watching the Rugby World Cup on ITV.com

Published September 11, 2007 in Television, Web

Reckless Records RIP - Part 7: Television Personalities

Published August 23, 2007 in CNN, Music, Television

'Faked' Bargain Hunt the final straw

Published August 8, 2007 in BBC, Daily Mail, Television

5 quick usability wins for the BBC iPlayer beta trial installation process

Published August 6, 2007 in Application design, BBC, Product review, Television, Usability, iPlayer

A tour of Tour De France news sites - Général Classement

Published July 29, 2007 in Cycling, Newspapers, Television, Tour de France, Web

"Show must go on" culture at the BBC more to blame for errors than a calculating culture of deceit

Published July 19, 2007 in BBC, Radio, Television, Voting

National Television Awards vote seems wide open to multiple vote fraud

Published July 12, 2007 in Doctor Who, Media, Television, Usability, Voting, Web

Free the BBC from the same old tired DRM debate

Published June 13, 2007 in BBC, DRM, Linux, Media, Microsoft, Popular, Radio, Television, Web, iPlayer

Too much Big Brother nipple for the Daily Mail

Published June 2, 2007 in Daily Mail, Media, Newspapers, Television

Peter from Spalding is not impressed by the BBC Trust's iPlayer approval

Published April 30, 2007 in BBC, Daily Mail, Media, Newspapers, Television, iPlayer

Anyone for Monkey Tennis?

Published April 30, 2005 in Television

"Dear Television" on BBC Two

Published March 8, 2005 in BBC, Television