http://www.niemanlab.org/2008/10/free-love-in-swingin-london/ A collaborative effort to figure out the future of journalism. A project of Harvard University. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:28:00 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.niemanlab.org/2008/10/free-love-in-swingin-london/comment-page-1/#comment-9 Steve Bowbrick Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:21:03 +0000 http://www.niemanlab.org/2008/10/free-love-in-swingin-london/#comment-9 One thing I'm learning in my project to <a href="http://commonplatform.co.uk" rel="nofollow">document the BBC's efforts at openness</a> is that there's a lot more work being done to open up the broadcaster's assets than you'd imagine: several new open source technology standards are being developed at BBC labs, lots of open source code comes from developers in various departments and the main obstacle to the freeing of BBC content is the various intractable rights regimes. A funny thing about the CC music reviews: one of Britain's other national broadcasters, Channel 4, is already using the BBC's CC reviews on its own web pages: how's that for interdependence! One thing I’m learning in my project to document the BBC’s efforts at openness is that there’s a lot more work being done to open up the broadcaster’s assets than you’d imagine: several new open source technology standards are being developed at BBC labs, lots of open source code comes from developers in various departments and the main obstacle to the freeing of BBC content is the various intractable rights regimes. A funny thing about the CC music reviews: one of Britain’s other national broadcasters, Channel 4, is already using the BBC’s CC reviews on its own web pages: how’s that for interdependence!

]]> http://www.niemanlab.org/2008/10/free-love-in-swingin-london/comment-page-1/#comment-8 Steve Bowbrick Sat, 18 Oct 2008 11:15:20 +0000 http://www.niemanlab.org/2008/10/free-love-in-swingin-london/#comment-8 Tom Scott, the project lead on the BBC's <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/beta" rel="nofollow">/music</a> project, tells me that the CC content they're publishing already has some takers, including Channel 4 who are reusing it on their own music pages (although I don't have a link to hand for the Channel 4 page yet). Tom Scott, the project lead on the BBC’s /music project, tells me that the CC content they’re publishing already has some takers, including Channel 4 who are reusing it on their own music pages (although I don’t have a link to hand for the Channel 4 page yet).

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