links for 2009-03-12
Published on 12 March 2009 in Daily Links
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Martin’s write up of the Steve Bowbrick event at Broadcasting House. He picked out another Tony Ageh quote where he said that in the BBC either say "no" or "not no". But never "yes" and then ensure it happened. I’m a big fan of saying "yes" to my teams, and we’ve launched some great additional features to services purely because I said yes then didn’t tell anyone in management! But there’s also been plenty of times when I’ve said yes and someone’s overruled me. And on a corporation wide level, it doesn’t surprise me that "Not no" is a common sound in the BBC…
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BBC may be moving to Salford, but the dream of having a "MediaCity" seems to have stalled – ITV will be staying put in Manchester.
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BBC starts doing embedded video! Shame the embedded code is so long though…