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- A Different Strategy, The Sanest Choice In An Insane World … service organisations like the Office for National Statistics, Essex County Council, Jisc, the BBC, the Department for Business and Trade, the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government …
- se20e05: AI Models; The All Souls Exam; Melvynn Bragg as an Oxford Don; Grounding; Being Human; Worry About The Same Things … All Souls College, Oxford - Wikipedia ( archive.is ), Wikipedia ↩ BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time ( archive.is ) ↩ In Our Time (radio series) - Wikipedia ( archive.is ) ↩ List of In Our …
- Just Enough World Model; Actually, it’s about Federalism … in Dan’s brain over the decades” [1] For starters, Douglas Adams’ 1990 BBC documentary Hyperland [2] . I did a rewatch of Hyperland back in 2014 [3] . General …
- Unreliable Narrators; Palate Cleansers … In 2004, the BBC sketch comedy Little Britain introduced a sketch with the catchphrase “ Computer says no ” [7] . By this point, criticism of bureaucracies implemented in software had …
- Your Timeline needs a DJ; Enough … This, combined with a discussion in a Slack about "what is it that the BBC national radio stations are good for now, anyway?" These are, arguably, editorial decisions …
- This was not the future we were promised^w sold … How a fake 'IPL' cricket league ran for Russian punters , Soutik Biswas, BBC News, 11 July, 2022 ↩︎ The Blue Ant trilogy by William Gibson, at Wikiquote ↩︎
- It's still about Ethics in Dataset Collection, Attribution and Licensing, but also Governance … The BBC Micro 🦉 Bot by Dominic Pajak is a Twitter bot that replies to your BBC BASIC code with a screen recording of that code running. You …
- Metalabels, or: Geocities Brands, and Old Mode … which just instantly sets off my "oh, you mean a bit like the BBC and how it's being intentionally destroyed in the UK? Like That?" That was …
- s11hiatus01/05: Challenge/Response … public transport and being protective of the ideals of the NHS and the BBC and tearing up at Danny Boyle's opening ceremony, despite finally, finally, *finally* being …
- Things That Caught My Attention, Volume 1 … Code, Continued Episodes 31-40 Introduction How The World Works Advances in Quantification BBC Heaven Why You Shouldn't Embrace Surveillance But What Is The User Need? Universal …
- Stop doing that, it's making you look silly … BBC! [1] , which appeared in my RSS reader [2] (sorry, Substack app, that's what RSS readers are now), the BBC is now using a thirty day exclusivity …
- IT'S SIGGRAPH TECHNICAL PAPERS PREVIEW TRAILER TIME, BABY! … then reverted back to Royal Mail in 2002. ↩︎ Monday name change for PwC , BBC News, 10 June 2002, when PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PwC) split its consulting arm from its auditing …
- Mist, everywhere … using a little computer They’re British, which triggers a whole bunch of BBC Micro memories and associations: I mean, could you imagine , a government investing in a …
- Three Things … It was the BBC, and as a Brit, I am required to thus link to BBC Research and Development [ Kingswood Warren building , Wikipedia ], one of the examples of …
- No Such Thing As A Blank Slate … It feels like a sign of how early we are that we’ve moved on from interactive , which is what I remember the BBC calling them, to visual …
- On The Precipice, supporter edition … One good answer was around 1994, when the BBC had an ISP, the BBC Networking Club (for which I remember watching reruns of a late 90s comedy show …
- On The Precipice … For example, was there ever a window in which, in the U.K., the BBC could’ve had a different posture toward the internet, with the result being …
- They Write Software That Kills People, Don't They? … There’s a BBC TV series that I have to admit I never really watched other than being aware of, or if I have watched it, only in …
- An Institution at the Intersection of Technology and Society … Just think of Jodrell Bank, given a fresh coat of paint and shrouded in a Union Jack, beaming BritCoin into space, or a BBC-style British Internet being …
- There’s only one rule that I know of, babies … I have a memory of my dad coming home and showing us Elite on the BBC Micro, but I don’t remember seeing him play it. To be …
- Little things; Snow Crashing Ch 14 part 1 … you’re a certain age and ever worked on interactive stuff at the BBC might have you coming out in hives: Subscribe now Til next time - Best, Dan
- Breaking the rules … The BBC recently updated its news channel's onscreen graphics to use Reith, a new typeface. But I bet you probably didn't know the Beeb's Global …
- My So-Called Content … There are actual sunlight rays of god peeking through what is either library footage from something like the BBC’s Natural History department, or otherwise a bunch of …
- Firebreak Protocol … the BBC Bad Word List, like not being able to say you’re from Scunthorpe), but also independently discovered words that turned out to be pretty good indicators …
- As at Batman, I want a Batcomputer so that I can remain unchallenged as The World’s Greatest Detective … the Oregon Trail generation if you’re American, or the, I dunno, BBC Micro and Amiga generation if you’re British), I look at something like WebEx and …
- The Reboot's Cold Open … then we'll all be Spending Time Well. * If you have access to BBC iPlayer, Handmade is a three-part series that involves long takes, hardly any editing …
- Things That Have Caught My Attention … I'd also been rewatching Douglas Adam's Hyperland[14, 15], his 1990 BBC Two documentary on hypermedia and hypertext. (Aside: the documentary includes the concept of "micons …
- Peek Mode … t believe, attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion and the BBC commissioning/producing a game to help you spot fake news , everything old is new …
- Filtered for wide spread, low accuracy … My throwaway imitation of a BBC Radio 4 panel game participant is to remark that we shouldn't shut down the A380 program because "we're going to …
- Random Walk; Black Design … the organization that's doing the work is more like NBC or the BBC to try to get you pay attention to their attention platform so that you …
- Funny, I've always believed that the world is what we make of it … innovation labs at companies like Yahoo! and Facebook, at media companies like the BBC, Channel 4 and Penguin, in government (local, metro, state and, uh, country-level) and …
- OK TO GO … friends who worked at the BBC when they did super interesting and Reithian internet stuff (sorry people who currently work at the BBC, but you know what I …
- ROUND HOUSE … THEIR SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENT IS BACKED UP BY “PHYSICS”." [9] Shoe Event Horizon - Hitchhikers - Wikia [10] The Up-Goer Five Text Editor [11] BBC digital expert Tony Ageh …
- GUT; Sixteen Theses … kept up with random appearances on TV by, amongst others, interviewed by the BBC as "a Pirate Bay user"[12] managed to be qualified and competent to be …
- Any Old Iron … Message [Includes Fix] - Mac Rumors [9] Skype falls victim to text chat bug - BBC News -- OK. That was longer than I thought it was going to be. A …
- The Humane Calendar; Government 3.0; Digital Public Space … Tony Hall is doubling down[1] on the BBC being a broadcaster and delivering broadcast programming. Not in a linear way, sure, but finding better ways to deliver …
- Stock; Two Thoughts … Those of you in the UK and still tangentially involved in or interested in what the BBC is doing, or thinks it should be doing, probably continue to …
- Translation; Drift; The Thing About Things … what garners more traffic to the BBC - News, or all of iPlayer? What gets the people who love the BBC and its chartered ideals as opposed to the …
- Videogame Tourism; Principles for 21st Century Government … With organisations like the BBC and their will-they-won't-they Creative Archive[7], I can kind-of imagine a company like Ubisoft offering some of their …
- Web Directions South; A Thousand Songs In Your Pocket; Odds … Candy full time and at the invitation of [] gave a talk at a BBC conference. I felt sick the day before. Sick the night before. Sick the morning …
- Who's Afraid Of Infrastructure; White Hats; Utopias; Chinese Room Mobs … At Six to Start when we were building stuff for big broadcasters like the BBC and Channel 4, we learned about the Time To Cock rule - the (minimal …
- Continued Careening … phase of the UK's web history that resulted in going through the BBC as a sort of rite of passage. There were definitely two things that stood …
- They Don't Owe You Anything; Awkwardly Specialised … What better way to Inform, Educate and Entertain? But of course it turns out that the BBC is, at 92 years old, only eight years off its centenary …
- WATCH; BERG … Webb would go on to do a stint at the BBC - in particular, the Audio and Music Interactive part - in that typical progression of Public Serviceland where he …
- What Are The Civilian Applications?; The Way The World Works; Seeing Like A SpamSieve … This is the way the world works. [1] Premier League warns about posting goal videos online - BBC Radio One Newsbeat 3.0 Seeing Like A SpamSieve "You don …
- Usborne's Future; Phase Change; OK Google, Dismantle Barge … Turn the BBC into a space agency. All that kind of stuff. So, depressingly: the reason why we didn't get the jetpacks is because we didn't …
- Dangerous; Not Trying Is A Signal (2); What's Mine; Laundry … of my first experiences of a computer game was playing ELITE on a BBC micro. I'd come back to it a few years later buying an MS …
- Continued Disruption; Snow Crashing (7); Edge of Tomorrow … I have to admit, I was a little weirded out by the actual BBC News 24 presenters being in actual BBC News 24 fake broadcasts, and the fact …
- The Next Big Thing In Drugs; As If You Needed Another NYT Opinion; Experience This; The Value Of The Thing … My brother's been writing up a set of notes on the BBC and its approach to digital commissioning[3]. One of the things to understand about the …
- Snow Crashing 3; Video is a Content-Type; Blame Your Tools … So goodbye, broadcast with your programme lengths and scheduling issues, hello, and I paraphrase the BBC here, the "amazing creative opportunities" that just getting rid of those two …
- Snow Crashing; danah boyd; Facebook and Oculus Rift … in the best style of someone who's uninformed and responding to a BBC News Online request to vomit into a TEXTAREA, here are your reckons about Facebook …
- When You're Part Of A Team; The Dabbler … This issue of siloing has most recently raised its head through at the UX team at the BBC who, it appears, have finally had the latest straw placed …
- On Creativity; But What Is The User Need; Universal Service … This sort of institutional excellence or focus in a particular domain is what leads to outwardly bizarre statements like the head of TV content for the BBC's …
- Challenge / Response … public transport and being protective of the ideals of the NHS and the BBC and tearing up at Danny Boyle's opening ceremony, despite finally, finally, *finally* being …
- On Advertising; On Schmidt; Shorts … Jesus Christ, BBC. - Little Printer is going to work ( http://blog.bergcloud.com/2014/03/11/little-printer-for-business/ ) which I'm sure will crystalize to a …
- BBC Heaven; Shorts 1.0 BBC Heaven In a past life, I used to do a fair amount of work with broadcasters and tv production companies. The company I founded with …
- Shorts; Code as Law; The Real Revolution; The Flip … It's not a coincidence that at *exactly* the time this research was going on at the BBC, a number of other ex-BBC ejecta were busy inventing …
- The Difficulty … watching Hyperland[1], a 50 minute documentary written by Douglas Adams for the BBC. You can watch along, if you want. It's important to remember that Hyperland …
- The Auto Show, Learning to Code and Niggling Thoughts … As a precocious little snot of a kid, I loved messing around with the BBC Micros that we had at school. My parents, being academics, borrowed computers home …
- The Cult of Making, Shooting Fish In Jean Michel Jarre's Barrel … I've always been a geek, and like a lot of people, spent ages laboriously typing out programme listing into a BBC. I like systems. I like seeing …
- Everything In Silos, Forever and Ever, Amen … It means that five years ago, the apocryphal story of someone at the BBC being quoted however many tens of thousands of pounds for a Rails server from …
- We Build Worlds … This reminds me a bit of the BBC Mythology Engine[3] which is another fantastic example of the BBC doing something very hard, in a very correct way …