I appreciate that the BBC has a few RSS feeds, that their news archives are available, and of course, that the quality of their content is excellent.
Dave Winer has an interview with the Head of Technical Development at BBC News Interactive that shows what’s in store for them on the internet side of things in the near future. The plan looks fairly reasonable (plus, he mentions Lessig) and I wonder if our own state-owned TV couldn’t do similar things.
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While I don’t know the TV situation in Canada well enough, I have to agree with your praise for the BBC.
While Dutch public television [1] has lately gotten a better internet-presence – the general link is http://omroep.nl, but given that the pages are in Dutch, it will probably not be of much interest to most of your readers – including quite good news and sports coverage – I still find myself going to the BBC sites for most of my « news browsing ».
Even – for instance – their coverage of the case against the murderer of Dutch politician, Pim Fortuyn, is better than what one will find on most Dutch sites, not to mention other international sites.
[1] – Dutch public television, btw, is a bit of a weird structure with about 20 different broadcasting corporations, usually based on certain political or religious ideas or aiming at a certain group of people, sharing 3 TV channels and 5 radio channels. Each of these corporations has their own paying members, which in most cases receive a TV guide produced by the corporation they subscribe to. The rest of the money for public television comes from state-funding and commercials. The main difference, btw, between watching public TV and commercial TV over here, is that public TV will not show commercials during a programme, but only between shows.
speaking of which:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2948555.stm