First Try by Geriatric1927 is an example of standard YouTube fare – in the sense that nothing is standard, unless its the poor-yet-strangely-acceptable quality of the camera work and editing. I find it intriguing that YouTube is pushing the Post a Video Response option. Not just text comments. Create a video as dialogue. Very interesting. Geriatric1927 has 219 video responses and 7,000 text responses, 872,508 viewings. Considering it was added on August 5th, not bad. Not bad at all, for a young fella. He’ll be 80 next year. Anyway, go have a look. Particularly look for pastiche/mashup (where a 2nd Continue Reading…
From NMA.co.uk: The BBC, ITV and mobile handset manufacturers LG Mobile and Samsung are believed to be on the verge of announcing a full-scale mobile TV trial in the UK planned for later this year. The trial will be the first national level barometer of the potential take up of mobile TV services and will see channels including BBC News 24 and an ITV Digital channel broadcast live and continuously to handsets across the UK. Other trial broadcast partners are believed to include Eurosport, Turner owned Cartoon Network, as well as a consortium that includes telecoms giant BT and radio Continue Reading…
Too funny. From the MailOnSunday an article about the BBC accidentally interviewing a cabbie about the Apple legal battle. This guy was mistaken for the real technology expert. Or should I say ‘Guy’. Guy Goma showed up for a job interview as a cleaner (sick of cabby’ing?) and ended up in the hot seat being questioned about copyright and the law. He did alright tho. A computer expert has described his astonishment at seeing the BBC’s 24-hour news channel interview supposed taxi driver Guy Goma in the mistaken belief it was him. Guy Kewney – a white, bearded technology expert Continue Reading…
I headed over to the Financial Time’s site to a piece on the BBC and their revamp. It was titled “BBC’s warns of ‘big shock’ as it signals shake-up of its website“. The snippet they (Emiko Terazono and Aline van Duyn) gave me looked enticing… The BBC, already the UK’s biggest online brand, yesterday signalled its determination to join the fast-growing web world of blogs, open access and online communities.The public broadcaster said it would relaunch its website to feature greater personalisation and more user-generated content as it laid out its strategy to adapt to the so-called “web 2.0 world”, Continue Reading…
At the BBC site, a photo album – Robbie Cooper has a fascinating “expose” (over used word but what the heck) of online gamers and their avatars. And w00t! One of the Lineage kings is there!Post here if you have ever met an ingame friend and how they compared to their avatar, ever thought that the person behind an avatar was maybe a famous movie star or if you know what Leroy Jenkins – or should I say “LEEEEROY JEEEENKINS” looks like (one for the WoW fans!).
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