April 27, 2006

BBC goes 2.0

MediaGuardian.co.uk: "The BBC today unveiled radical plans to rebuild its website around user-generated content, including blogs and home videos, with the aim of creating a public service version of MySpace.com."
Not sure how big a story this is. Centralized social media? Huh? I already have a blog. Why do I need them?

[Link: Rubel]

Posted by hugh macleod at April 27, 2006 8:46 AM | TrackBack
Comments

hehe ... always someone around to point out the obvious, so to speak.

Posted by: Jon Husband at April 27, 2006 7:03 PM

"I already have a blog. Why do I need MySpace.com?"

Posted by: geoff lane at April 28, 2006 7:15 AM

Traditinal media trying to hang on for all it's worth. Not very exciting...

Posted by: Mary Anne Davis at April 28, 2006 11:09 AM

It's stunning to me that they're still considering this, to be honest. Hosting user weblogs in large media organisations seems to be an idea that circles around every eighteen months or so. It's dumb. I wrote about this (last time) in February 2002: Why Content Publishers Shouldn't Host Weblogs People keep forgetting this stuff.

Posted by: Tom Coates at April 28, 2006 4:08 PM

this is how the guardian reported the story.

when the actual quote is:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2006/04_april/25/newmedia.shtml
"We are looking to a world where you could share BBC programmes, your own thoughts, your own blogs and your own home videos. It allows you to create your own space and to build bbc.co.uk around you."

which isn't the same thing at all

Jem

Posted by: jem stone at April 28, 2006 9:15 PM