Sometimes I come across a site and have to wonder what the designers, consultants, marketers, management teams and everyone else involved were thinking when they signed off on the project. The sting is that much worse when it’s a re-design of a well-loved site. Well, the brains behind the new BBC iPlayer layout have failed,… Read More
Posts Tagged ‘BBC’
Saturday, July 5th, 2008 Tags: actual player, BBC, broken, Digital, Owen Gibson, player, review, web interface
Category: Digital, review 22 Comments 
Technorati Tags: immigration,UK Politics,politics,USA,trans-atlantic,interesting Blogging about politics can be a bit of a mixed bag, so we’ll see how it goes. I want to avoid polarising talk, tabloid tactics, and FUD (Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt). Instead, I’d like to discuss the latest raft of changes which seek to make immigrants ‘more British’ before offering them… Read More
Friday, February 22nd, 2008 Tags: BBC, Belgium, Britain, Colorado, commentator, Digital, Domenico Depalo, editorial, European Union, Finsbury Park mosque, Franco Peracchi, GBP, Gordon Brown, Gordon Brown's government, headlines and controversial fundamentalist cleric, Home Secretary, horrible, ideas, immigration, immigration services, Jacqui Smith, London, National Statistics Office, OECD, politics, Radio 4, test site, The Star, the Times, United Kingdom, United States
Category: Topical 21 Comments
Watching TV online is becoming a bit of a hobby of mine. I don’t have a TV anywhere in the house, and it is just so much more convenient to be able to watch what I want, when I do, without having to play around with channels or digital interfaces which seem built to be… Read More
Friday, February 1st, 2008 Tags: 4OD requires download and installation, actual player, BBC, Channel 4, Dell, Digital, Digital TV, Facebook, Flash, founder, GBP, Internet Explorer, ISP, link site, Microsoft Vista, Microsoft Windows, online presence, online service, P2P, player, review, The British Broadcasting Corporation, United Kingdom, United States, Windows XP, www.zachbeauvais.com, XP, YouTube
Category: Digital 2 Comments
It’s America’s Question Time
This morning, after switching on the kettle, I set my laptop on the kitchen surface and shuffled through the BBC iPlayer’s “Factual” category—looking for something interesting to keep me company as I made my porridge and coffee. I stumbled across Question Time, and noticed that this special edition was being broadcast from the United States—something… Read More
Saturday, November 1st, 2008 Tags: America, BBC, commentator, communication, context, David Dimbleby, historian, Iraq, John McCain, politician, professor, Simon Schama, speaker, United States, White House
Category: Narrative, Topical 9 Comments