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David Lammy, Twitter expert
It came as a bit of a shock this evening, when BBC1's The One Show started talking about Twitter, that reporter Gyles Brandreth's first port of call was Kingsgate House on Victoria Street, home of...
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Our top story: government web video
It isn't every evening that a video clip from a government website features prominently on the main evening news. Except this week. Last night, it was the Treasury's YouTube clip of Alastair Darling...
View ArticleWhy the fork does the BBC need its own jQuery?
Of course it's good news that the BBC's in-house Javascript library, Glow has been released as open source. It's a very respectable chunk of code, with some quite nice built-in widgetry. But why on...
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BBC iPlayer back on Wii: a tipping point?
The BBC's new iPlayer 'app' for the Wii is now available for download: and it has the potential to do amazing things to UK viewing habits. Thus far, if you wanted to watch iPlayer via your Nintendo...
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BBC sounds death-knell for left-hand nav
There's a fascinating (and lengthy) post on the BBC's internet blog, setting the scene for a forthcoming 'post-2.0' redesign of its web presence. It's a design geek's paradise - global visual...
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Code your own BBC News homepage
The BBC has announced plans to switch off its low-graphic websites: The low graphics version of the site was designed as a low bandwidth alternative to the full website at a time when most users of the...
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Oi BBC, don’t you dare diss my legacy
The BBC published a very nicely balanced, sober article yesterday by Brian Wheeler, noting the 'web revolution sweeping Whitehall'. It's been widely retweeted around the e-gov community, and is being...
View ArticleHow can a website cost £35m? Easily.
The BBC's Rory Cellan-Jones clearly doesn't read this blog. His big story this morning is on the cost associated with the BusinessLink website: much as I predicted in my immediate analysis of the COI...
View ArticleBBC’s study of Whitehall open source use yields little
By their own admission, it doesn't unveil any shocking secrets: but I suppose it's worth noting the BBC's attempt to investigate Whitehall's use of open source software, or lack thereof. In truth, it...
View ArticleBBC ‘news jockey’ experiment
By Steve Herrmann, writing on the BBC News Editors blog yesterday: During the past few years the "live page" format has become a regular feature of our coverage around big breaking stories. The format...
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