Posts tagged guardian

Links for 2008-07-24

• Startup ideas we’d like to fund [Y Combinator]
• How much money does the BBC need? [Media Guardian]
• Careful language is central to our technology [Inside guardian.co.uk]
• The biggest barrier to accessibility and inclusive design is us [Chris Heilmann]
• Why bother writing an article at all? Why not just scan in a few naked photos and have done with it? [Charlie Brooker - Comment is free]

Links for 2008-07-11

• Guardian Media Group buys paidContent for $30 million [All Things Digital]
• Digital TV takeup growth continues [Guardian]
• Flickr on TV [BBCi Labs]
• Phoenix diary: Mission to Mars [BBC]
• The Faces likely to reunite [NME]

UK F1 TV rights change

Another good Grand Prix at Malaysia during the weekend.

Not as many thrills and spills as Australia but this was expected as the Malaysian track is a more conventional modern configuration.

The ITV streaming this time was the correct aspect ratio - not surprising since the coverage was 16 by 9 which was displayed in a 16 by 9 box on their website!

Shock announcement on the UK television coverage rights, moving from ITV to the BBC two years before the end of the current contract.

This is good if, for nothing else, there will no advertisements intruding into the coverage.

Bernie Ecclestone gives some background and there’s interesting analysis in The Guardian on the reasons behind the rights change.

Labour-creating

Bobbie Johnson partly answers my question “How did that happen?” in relation to the internet.

He says:

It’s not for nothing that the net is characterised as a time sink, because wherever it carves out efficiencies, it usually manages to create extra work, too.

Good point.

The decline of newspapers

Roy Greenslade summarises the current situation facing newspapers.

I agree with his conclusion:

Unless traditional newspaper publishers can find a way of securing substantial online revenue streams, by attracting sufficient eyeballs for their editorial content, there is no future for them.

Forget HD - I want Super Hi-Vision!

The Guardian reports on Super Hi-Vision.

The system claims a resolution of 7680×4320 pixels, compared to the HDTV maximum of 1920×1080.

The Guardian encapsulates the one big problem “of how to transmit huge amounts of data remains”.