Never in the field of human grammar has so much attention been paid to one apostrophe as in the storm of debate surrounding National Singles’ Day.
The question of where the apostrophe should go on the card to celebrate being single designed by one of the teams competing in UK’s The Apprentice led to a three-hour [...]
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The Independent on Sunday’s Ian Burrell has written an excellent analysis of the UK’s TV news offerings in light of Ms Kaplinsky’s move from the BBC to Five. It’s clear that management of ‘Natasha the celebrity’ has underpinned the successful management of ‘Natasha the journalist’. Ian asks if ‘personality’ is essential in [...]
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It’s 32 days till Christmas; just wanted to share that piece of information with you in case you didn’t know! Now on that happy note on with the post…
1. Following on with the Brass Tacks, here is number six, ‘Give them an interesting quote or two’. It discusses the art of quoting in a [...]
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Enigma, the Young Achievement Young Enterprise company of Ramsey Grammar School students are getting noticed. Click here to see the BBC story about the TT souvenir playing cards that these bright kids are bringing to market.
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Yes, I’m a day late once again. Sorry about that…pressures of work don’t you know! But I’ve taken the time to read through all my bookmarked stories this morning and have come up this week’s list. Happy reading…
1. Have you heard of Hypertextual Distraction Disorder (HDD)? Itjournalist explains how hyperlinks affect the way we read and [...]
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The BBC is planning a bunch of new Web 2.0 innovations to be rolled out next year. There will be more personalisation features for BBC News Online, additional live statistics trackers and maybe even wiki style pages that would let users contribute to compilations of information. Cool!
More info at Press Gazette.
Other Strive Notes about the BBC you might enjoy:
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Have you seen the BBC’s Paper Monitor blog? It’s a daily blog that pokes a little fun at the UK print media. Highlights from this week include a look at coverage of the new Conservative logo, wall charts, Chris Tarrant and more. I’ve added it to my faves list. You might want to too!
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If there was ever any doubt that Second Life is going mainstream, there is none now. BBC Breakfast did a spot on the virtual world this morning, including conducting an interview in Second Life. Duran Duran’s Second Life concert, shoe shopping and stop at BBC Radio 1’s second life presence are all highlighted. Check out [...]
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I’ve only just found the Magazine Monitor on BBC Online. Part of it is a round up some of the week’s “fluffier” stories, 10 things we didn’t know last week. It’s a nice light read for a rainy Saturday morning. Enjoy!
Thanks go to Graham for pushing the link.
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The BBC is hiring two broadcast journalists to cover the Isle of Man. They will work from the offices of Manx Radio, but will be employed directly by the BBC. They will generate stories for TV, radio and the BBC website.
This is great news for the Isle of Man, and many say, about time too. [...]
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Today the BBC is reporting a story about a huge boost to the Isle of Man’s e-business industry.
Strive client Netcetera is opening a £10 million data centre in the Island to serve e-gaming and e-businesses here.
It’s good news for the Island and evidence of our thriving economy.
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I’ve just heard that the BBC plans to let people create thier own personal radio stations from all its varied content across all its services. MyBBCRadio will hand control to audiences and let them combine what they want to hear, when they want to hear it. It combines podcasts and BBC Radio Player technology. And it’s [...]
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Reuters is reporting that the BBC is bringing World News to the US market and launching some new programmes created for the US market. It will be interesting to see what the take up is. I used to subscribe to BBC America when I lived over there; now there will be broader access. I spent [...]
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Yuk Yuk Yuk….did you hear the one about the BBC research assistant that put a cabbie on air instead of the ’subject expert’? Apparently the cab driver was waiting in the reception to pick the expert up after his interview. Somehow the driver ended up on air giving his opinion on music downloading… Hat tip [...]
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I wanted to point out story from the BBC that looks at the trust people put in media. It’s the findings of a study that found, on the whole, people tend to trust what the media tells them more than what their governments tell them. More than 10k people in 10 countries were surveyed.
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No other media brand on Earth can touch the BBC for quality and innovation. Nowhere. No how. Now the Beeb has announced its intention to refocus its website around user content using 2.0 technology with the mission to “share, find and play”. Mark Sweeny explains it all in The Guardian.
The news is dividing opinion around the [...]
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