One of my favourite Google watching sites is Google Blogoscoped, a great site for keeping tabs on what's happening in the Googleverse. So tonight, whilst going for a ramble around the BBC website, I wondered whether there was an equivalent for the BBC?
For example, did you know:
BBC Active ( formerly known as BBC Worldwide Learning, (includuing BBC Children's Learning and BBC Languages)) is now part of Pearson Education: "The partnership will be co-owned by Pearson Education and BBC Worldwide, with BBC Worldwide holding a minority stake, and will sit alongside Pearson's existing educational publishing businesses." BBC Active signals new partnership for BBC Worldwide and Pearson Education. (When I posted If Universities Were Companies, and idly wondered whether Pearson might make a play for a struggling university, I had no idea they had been buying up chunks of the BBC since October 2005!)
the BBC Archive is up and running, albeit just on a single topic at the moment, as far as I can tell: BBC - Archive - Titanic;
whilst at the JISC conference, one of the BBC speakers quipped that the BBC wants to "own time"; as well as the lapsed On This Day minisite ("Video and audio from the BBC News archive WWII and 1950-2005. This site is archived and no longer updated."), the upcoming Memoryshare would appear to be part of that play, a user submission site for capturing people's memories and popping them on a timeline. (I've covered some of the BBC's other timelime plays here: OUseful posts on BBC timelines...);
BBC Learning Zone includes a growing clips library featuring streamed clips from BBC schools programmes. At the moment, clips play in the BBC media player, rather than the iPlayer.
iPlayer on the wii - a bit slow when I tried it last week, maybe it's a bit quicker this week?
Anyway, until a "BBC blogscoped" site appears, here are a few feeds to keep tabs on:
BBC Radio Labs blog - this is where I found out how to get 'live text' over XMPP (I had to get the geeky 'duh? wassat?' bit in somewhere!;-)
BBC Internet Blog, "a place where senior staff from BBC Future Media teams will discuss issues about the technology behind bbc.co.uk, our mobile services and the BBC's presence on the internet."
BBC Backstage - the BBC community developer area, and the BBC Innovation Labs...
BBC Press Office - "New media" news announcements.
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