"Dimensions takes important places, events and things, and overlays them onto a map of where you are."

"BBC journalists must keep up with technological change - or leave, the director of BBC Global News Peter Horrocks says"

"When a site has evolved as ours has, it just isn't wise or cost effective to continue working on some of the pages we published in the past. At the same time, routinely deleting inactive content doesn't feel entirely right either, does it? Whilst we work through the sensible way forward, the best approach at present is to clearly label pages which are no longer being updated but which have been left online either for reference or because they may still be of some interest."

heavy whiteboarding

"So the online news teams have now taken up residence in the newly configured BBC Multimedia Newsroom, next to their TV and radio counterparts, and the newsgathering teams who deploy the BBC's news reporters."

"... we launched a new version of the BBC Help site. Previously, it was just a collection of bits of technical advice (...) The new site draws on the wealth of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) and tries to guide people more effectively."

"... it’s like gardeners doing a bit of pruning and weeding, but not digging it up and starting from scratch" (..) many of the basics stay the same, because we know they work."

"Early signs suggest that on those stories where we’ve embedded the video in a story, as opposed to providing the link to a pop-up player as we've done up to now, the video gets about ten times more usage than before."

"...arguing about aesthetics is like singing about traffic. It’s not only ineffective, but it’s in large part not very pleasurable..."

"A place where we, senior staff from BBC Future Media teams will discuss issues raised by you about the technology behind bbc.co.uk, our mobile services and the BBC's presence on the internet."

"Note, you will eventually be able to syndicate and embed BBC video in your own sites."

"Thou indigest paltry companion!"

Wow, was für eine schlechte Idee. Die BBC-Startseite fühlt sich auf einmal an wie GMX.

We’ve been looking recently at a site called News Sniffer. Its stated aim is "to monitor corporate news organisations to uncover bias" and it does this by tracking changes to stories on this website and the others it monitors. (...) Having looked at ...