Posts Tagged ‘BBC’

May 6, 2008

Have Your Say Light In The Darkness

Dan of London . a tiny light in the darkness of comments that can sometimes be the BBC’s Have Your Say.
You and me both, Dan.

May 4, 2008

The Go! Team: Doing It Right

The Go! Team
This tune has worked its way back into my affections purely by being currently employed by the BBC on a too often repeated trailer so thought I’d exorcise the full version which was originally released in 2007. The video and song, as many have mentioned before, evokes a pastiche of 70’s experiences like [...]

April 27, 2008

BBC Vs ISPs=Failure Of Free Market?

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“Didn’t England just go through this with its rail privatization? Didn’t its rail infrastructure go to the dogs? Running pipes is never a good business model. Basic infrastructure is a sort of prisoner’s dilemma. No one wants to pay for it, but everybody benefits. That’s why it is traditionally handled by the government, [...]

April 21, 2008

BBC News Remixed And Re-branded

Branding is a still worshipped greatly by media, marketing and advertising people so it’s come as no great surprise that the BBC have re-branded their News 24 outlet as the BBC news channel with another subtle remix of David Lowe’s theme tune and new graphics to suit.
Lowe’s theme has been in place now since 1999 and doesn’t [...]

April 20, 2008

Freedom A Question Of Money

Well, it compensates high earners! Give low earners free access to the legal system so they can tackle the prejudice against them. Freedom can be just a question of money. If you have no money and have little chance of getting any extra, to take on the ’system’, them you are just bullied by it. [...]