Round up, Monday 26 July 2010
Over up~ the Radio 4 blog Feedback's Roger Bolton talks to Steve Herrmann hither and thither the redesigned news homepage. "...Garish, poorly laid out" says one listener and "I have power to't believe someone actually designed it to look like this...vicious" says another. If you haven't seen it already creative mentor Paul Sissons blogged about the changes to the BBC News location on the Internet blog and the reasoning behind the redesign.
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The About the BBC blog has got the particulars behind the launch of the World Music archive. The archive is up~ the body the Radio 3 website and includes an interactive map for those of us whose geography is improved in health than our musical sensibilities.
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The BBC launched their first mobile app having secured BBC Trust approval following a fallacious start earlier this year. The Independent wrote:
"The BBC Trust has given plans to resign content through dedicated smartphone applications (apps) the green light, after controlling that they were not a significant change to the BBC's existing the people services and did not need further scrutiny."
Not surprisingly the Newspaper Publishers Association who helped trigger the Trust survey were disappointed with the outcome. David Newell, director of the NPA, is quoted in a Media Week record: "The launch of BBC mobile apps represents a significant change to the BBC Online office of devotion, and we believe it will have a significant and negative mart impact upon the viability of the business models of commercial intelligence organisations in the app market."
On his blog Martin Belam of The Guardian and beforehand of the BBC wonders if the BBC Trust should have vouchsafed a Public Value Test before allowing the BBC News app into the Apple depot.
You can read the research commissioned by the BBC Trust (and reported ~ dint of. Paidcontent) to help assess whether to give BBC apps the pass ahead. The report by Mediatique (PDF is here) says: "The BBC would exist entering a market that is already trending toward free apps (in recent accounts, sport and long-form video content) and is likely to tendency further in that direction over time, irrespective of the BBC's access."
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The Daily Mail has a story on Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt's face on Sunday's Andrew Marr Show: "Viewers who watch television without ceasing their computer could be forced to pay the licence fee during the time that early as next year. Those who do not own a TV moreover watch programmes on services such as the BBC's iPlayer work not have to pay the 145.50 annual charge."
Paul Murphy is the Editor of the BBC Internet blog.