April 27, 2006
BBC goes 2.0
MediaGuardian.co.uk: “The BBC today unveiled radical plans to rebuild its website around user-generated content, including blogs and home videos, with the aim of creating a public service version of MySpace.com.”
Not sure how big a story this is. Centralized social media? Huh? I already have a blog. Why do I need them?
[Link: Rubel]
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hehe … always someone around to point out the obvious, so to speak.
“I already have a blog. Why do I need MySpace.com?”
Traditinal media trying to hang on for all it’s worth. Not very exciting…
It’s stunning to me that they’re still considering this, to be honest. Hosting user weblogs in large media organisations seems to be an idea that circles around every eighteen months or so. It’s dumb. I wrote about this (last time) in February 2002: Why Content Publishers Shouldn’t Host Weblogs People keep forgetting this stuff.
this is how the guardian reported the story.
when the actual quote is:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2006/04_april/25/newmedia.shtml
“We are looking to a world where you could share BBC programmes, your own thoughts, your own blogs and your own home videos. It allows you to create your own space and to build bbc.co.uk around you.”
which isn’t the same thing at all
Jem