Archive for December, 2006
Saturday, December 9th, 2006
An article in this week's 'Private Eye' satirises a speech by Jana Bennett, BBC Director of Vision (formerly Director of Television) as new media jargon. The offending quotation is:
"We need some big projects that really stand out against the media skyline...the ones you can't miss and can't do ...
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Wednesday, December 6th, 2006
In the past three years both I and my partner, Jude Williams, have won battles with cancer. I had a major operation three years ago. Her struggle started in January 2006 with a hysterectomy, she then underwent chemotherapy and radiotherapy. After a period of convalescence she started work again in ...
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Tuesday, December 5th, 2006
Greg Childs, a former colleague from CBBC, is involved in a campaign to protect children's television from the damaging impact of audience fragmentation and the loss of revenue caused by the regulation of advertising.
"Save Kids' TV is a coalition of parents, producers, artists, educators and others concerned about screen-based media ...
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Sunday, December 3rd, 2006
A couple of accounts of the Lab process. One was sent by David Kousemaker, one of the winners from last week's Mediaguild Lab. The other is about the last of the BBC Innovation Labs, a post by Rik Abel from Headshift I've only just come across.
This is what David found ...
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Friday, December 1st, 2006
I’ve moderated two panels this week taking different perspectives on the future of television.
At Zero-One in London on Tuesday night as part of a seminar on interactive tv Scott Gronmark and Marc Goodchild, two of the key figures in the development of the BBC’s red-button services, argued that the achievements ...
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