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Zero* welcome for 200 Welsh TV shows – in Wales
Nid wyf yn deall gair rydych chi’n dweud Almost 200 Welsh language programmes broadcast by S4C last month attracted precisely zero viewers, leaked audience figures show.…
Continue reading »Purging the Queen’s English of "tweet," "app," and "sexting"
Using an app to tweet about sexting? One university wants you to watch your language. Lake Superior State University, though no doubt a fine institution of higher learning, doesn’t have big name recognition.
Continue reading »TweeBating – online, real time
Last week I sat around a large table on the top floor of Bush House in London with about twenty other people while we talked about the ways radio is changing and tried to imagine how English-language programming on BBC World Service could take advantage of the online, multimedia world that is emerging around us. I was invited because I appear on Digital Planet each week to think out loud about the impact of technology on our lives, but this was an internal BBC meeting rather than an open seminar, and the discussion was never intended to be made public. That didn’t stop one of the other attendees, technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones, from recording a segment of the introductory remarks that Ben Hammersley, the associate editor of Wired UK, made and posting it online via AudioBoo.
Continue reading »YouTube Partners with Univision
Google’s YouTube is always on the lookout for new ventures. Now the company has announced that it has closed a new deal with the popular Spanish language network in the US, Univision. What’s getting YouTube out of this is pretty easy to guess – content from Univision hosted on its site and we’re not only talking clips here but full content.
Continue reading »Three strikes world-wide, and a global DMCA
p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- “If Hollywood could order intellectual property laws for Christmas, what would they look like?” – asked David Fewer, acting director of the University of Ottawa’s Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic. “This is pretty close ,”he said, referring to ACTA, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement agreement, a dirty secret until a version was posted by Wikileaks in May this year. Now, “ISPs around the world may be forced to snoop on their subscribers and cut them off if they are found to have shared copyright-protected music on the Internet, under an international agreement being promoted by the U.S.,” says the IDG News Service .
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