On Fri, 21 Aug 2009 21:59:33 +0100, Tony(UK) wrote:
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> BBC launches open-source Digital Revolution
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>> | The BBC is starting work on what it calls its first ever open-source
>> | documentary, a collaborative blend of blogging and broadcasting that
>> | will chart the impact of the internet over the past 20 years. `----
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>> http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2009-08/20/bbc-launches-open-
source-
> digital-revolution.aspx
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>
>> Top 10 Open Source Hall of Famers
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>> http://www.infoworld.com/d/open-source/top-10-open-source-hall-
famers-848
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>> Recent:
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>> BBC wants your help in making open source documentary
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>> | So far they've already signed some big names, including the daddy of
>> the | internet: Tim Berners-Lee.
What? Not Al Gore?
>> `----
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>> http://m.pocket-lint.com/news/news.phtml/26445/bbc-open-source-
> documentary-web.phtml
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>> BBC begins work on open source documentary series
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>> | The BBC has begun working on a series of four one-hour documentaries
>> for | its BBC Two channel about how the web has, and still is, changing
>> our | lives. The current working title for the open and collaborative |
>> documentary series is the "Digital Revolution". `----
>>
>> http://www.h-online.com/open/BBC-begins-work-on-open-source-
documentary-
> series--/news/113750
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>>
>> The future is free
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>> | Digital Planet has spoken to Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired
>> | magazine, about the release of his new book, Free: The Future of
>> Radical | Price.
>> |
>> | He told the World Service about the concept of 'freeconomics', the |
>> business model behind web companies like Google, YouTube and Yahoo, |
>> where giving away things for free is making them money. `----
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>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8128314.stm
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> Interesting news, especially for people in the UK. The Beeb is a lot of
> things, but it is not, and likely never will be, Open Source anything. I
> am told that the Beeb are using this to /understand/ the concept of
> open- source, and cannot grasp the free aspect of the Internet, hence
> the documentaries. As much for their benefit as the viewers.
>
> Of course, (in the interest of balanced journalism you understand),
> there will be no doubt, the wheeling in of individuals who will slate
> this concept, as similar attempts to feature the likes of Ubuntu, Open
> Office and interview with the CEO of Red Hat recently. Look how the
> iPlayer was introduced at first for example.
> It will take the Beeb 10 years at least to get their head around the
> concept. Tim Berners-Lee will have to deliver a very complex array of
> things in a very 12 year old intelligence way in order that viewers
> understand. I'll be keeping a very open sourced mind on a closed source
> organisation.
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