April 27, 2006

BBC goes 2.0

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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]

5 Responses to “BBC goes 2.0”

  1. Jon Husband says:
    April 27, 2006 at 7:03 pm

    hehe … always someone around to point out the obvious, so to speak.

  2. geoff lane says:
    April 28, 2006 at 7:15 am

    “I already have a blog. Why do I need MySpace.com?”

  3. Mary Anne Davis says:
    April 28, 2006 at 11:09 am

    Tra­di­ti­nal media trying to hang on for all it’s worth. Not very exciting…

  4. Tom Coates says:
    April 28, 2006 at 4:08 pm

    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.

  5. jem stone says:
    April 28, 2006 at 9:15 pm

    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