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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 […]

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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.

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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.

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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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OK, let’s see if you can spot the flaw in this particular child-protection idea simply by reading the following standfirst:
Sex offenders’ e-mail addresses are to be passed to social networking sites like Facebook and Bebo to prevent them contacting children.
Any inkling why that might not work?
Frankly, I find it astounding that anyone could even write […]

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I’m particularly bleary-eyed this morning, so I’d read half a story before I noticed, but the BBC seems to have changed the layout of its stories. Interestingly, they haven’t changed the front page (yet?), so the two don’t match particularly well.

UPDATE:
Ah, must have caught them mid-change, here’s the new front page. I like it - […]

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I’m hurt.
I’ve been trying very hard not to just slag off the BBC lately, and a friend pointed out this evening that he kind of missed it. Well, if you think I’m going to say something sarcastic about under-bonnet forecourt-proximity-detecting depreciation devices you’ll be sorely disappointed.
Instead, a mini rant about Microsoft. Regular readers will know […]

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