once were journalists
Posted in internet, journalism on Mar 4th, 2010
Just noticed this box on the BBC site as it prepares to cover the Oscars. It’s the first time I’ve seen them directly embed tweets into a story.
Looking at the actual feed page it seems like there’s a problem – an 11 hour-time lag between a tweet and its appearance on the BBC page.
That and [...]
Posted in internet, journalism, online journalism on Dec 8th, 2009
I don’t know about you, but I’ve always thought that the BBC News website could do with a lift in the search engines. After all, the site just never appears in the search results and hardly seems to get any traffic.
Anyway, as editor Steve Herrmann explained in November, the BBC is finally embracing some basic [...]
Posted in digression on Mar 13th, 2009
Posted in internet, online journalism, technology on Aug 20th, 2008
It’s embedded YouTube videos and embraced social bookmarking, but in one particular area BBC News Online has always remained a little old fashioned: related links have remained fenced in the right-hand navigation pane.
Earlier, DanG spotted that the Beeb is trialling bringing links in from the cold; placing them in the body copy where they belong.
And, [...]
Posted in online journalism on Aug 1st, 2008
As regular reader(s) will know, I read BBC News Online a fair bit. Even so, I’ve never noticed this before. I’m slightly embarrassed that it’s in such a story of prurient interest, but there you go.
So, searching the Beeb for Newstracker reveals that, at least in theory, this has been running since 2004. It’s seemingly [...]
Posted in internet, journalism on Jul 11th, 2008
There were many factors involved in the epic Wimbledon final last weekend, but I hadn’t counted on the influence of the schedulers at the BBC.
Many scheduled programmes, including the news, were shifted to BBC Two as the sporting drama unfolded, eventually resulting in Nadal’s win at 2130 BST.
Posted in digression on May 31st, 2008
Noticed this the other day – somebody in BBC Online has a sense of humour:
Incidentally, I was trying to get a screen grab of Brown doing his trademark goldfish gulp, but now I look it’s more like somebody’s licking his love pump.
I’ll never know how they did that with a straight face.
Posted in digression, online journalism on May 7th, 2008
Sorry, I know, I know, it’s about the BBC again, but I’ve just realised that there’s an increasing vogue on BBC News for bunging up a bit of video without sound, or without any commentary, detail or analysis.
Hell, even I can do that (I wouldn’t bother watching this, incidentally: it’s not that interesting)
And, while I’m [...]
Posted in internet, journalism, writing on May 1st, 2008
Hi, it’s 2008.
Just wanted to remind you, because BBC News thinks it’s discovered a security flaw in Facebook applications. Yes, apparently they can gain access to your and your friends’ profile information, so a malicious application could pose as a legitimate one and harvest profile details, even if they’re not public.
I had to double-check the [...]
Posted in digression on Apr 28th, 2008
You can take your SI units and all your battles between imperial and metric measures and shove ‘em, because, as the BBC will tell you, there is only one true measure of size: the London double-decker bus.
This is probably my single favourite thing about the BBC News website. Whenever there’s a Big Thing, you know, [...]
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