March 9, 2013
by ianforrester
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George sent me a tweet saying how much Elizabeth Murdoch loved BBC Backstage, as she mentioned it in her speech to the Edinburgh TV Festival last year. The BBC has been the market leader for building new relationships and services … Continue reading
December 27, 2012
by ianforrester
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I heard Geoff Nunberg’s piece on NPR’s podcast and I got to say, although I’m pretty much big dated out from BBC Backstage (in a nice way) I’m in total agreement. Here’s a few key points… Well worth listening to … Continue reading
January 5, 2011
by ianforrester
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So now the ebook is out there, this pretty much spells the end of the BBC Backstage project. The backstage site & blog will go into a deep freeze so none of the links will be broken. It was interesting … Continue reading
January 3, 2011
by ianforrester
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At long last the Book charting the highlights of BBC Backstage is available for everyone to download and read. Download in [PDF] [print ready PDF] [EPUB] [MOBI] [RTF] Originally I wanted to celebrate the 5th Anniversary of backstage in May … Continue reading
October 22, 2010
by ianforrester
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So there’s been talk about the end of BBC backstage for a while and in certain circles its been heavily discussed. As has been discussed recently in the press and various channels online, the BBC has taken the decision to … Continue reading
March 10, 2010
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So as you may have already seen, Data.gov.uk, BBC Backstage and Manchester Digital Development Agency (MDDA) will be running an ‘unconference’ focussing on data visualisations. The unconference will team up 100 developers and 100 designers to create diverse and imaginative … Continue reading
October 29, 2007
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From the Backstage Blog, a frank discussion about DRM and Cross-platform support. It all started when I asked Ashley a few questions recently about the iplayer strategy. Ashley answered the question with quite a bit of passion and Matthew Cashmore … Continue reading
October 7, 2007
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So since my post in reply of Jason's post there's been a lot of discussion and conversation. Technorati as usual doesn't quite get as close as Google. Either way, its the emails and im's I've been getting which are also … Continue reading
September 28, 2007
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I wrote my notes up here on Backstage. The TTI Vanguard is one of those groups who run conferences you hear about but never get the chance to attend. In actually fact it might be membership or invite only like … Continue reading
May 25, 2007
by ianforrester
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It was great being at Xtech this year but it wasn't all play. I did actually film a lot and take notes. Ok there were sessions which were a little too early for my liking but that's the way it … Continue reading
April 19, 2007
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As previously mentioned on the backstage blog. Hackday.org is now official and you can sign up and grab yourself a ticket now. The dates are the weekend of the 16th – 17th June at Alexander Palace (yes now it makes … Continue reading
April 18, 2007
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From Backstage The BBC is looking for people to join a six-month trial in which 20,000 UK residents will get free access to hundreds of programmes from the BBC archive, including reports of historic events as they happened, ground-breaking documentaries, … Continue reading
February 13, 2007
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The first ever BBC Backstage podcast has caused a quite a stir. Some of it negative and some of it positive. Generally the reaction to the podcast is positive but Ben did say he felt Backstage shouldn't be hosting such … Continue reading
February 12, 2007
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The first ever BBC Backstage podcast kicked off in fine style on Wednesday 7th February. We invited some of the most vocal backstagers in the long running debate over DRM, to come and join us at the BBC to discuss … Continue reading
February 3, 2007
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Click To Play I shot this video with Molly earlier in the week, which I shared with Backstage but I received a great comment which I thought was good enough to quote here. Interesting interview, thanks. It's interesting to hear … Continue reading