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"Ok, it would take me ages to explain web 2.0... wikipedia has a better explainer (sic)." says the business editor of the BBC News website in his Davos 2007 blog. Is this the future of BBC analysis? Links to Wikipedia? As news reporting becomes increasingly commoditised, old media's last refuge is to put its collective future in the monetisable value of branded analysis. This is not a shining example of that vision. Out of the three Reithian precepts, only 'entertaining' applies here (just mildy, due the apparent absence of any insight).
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Update: not wishing to comment behind anyone’s back, I did of course post this as a comment on his blog.
Doesn’t seem to have made it through his Web 2.0 filter. Funny that. Perhaps I should “explainer” to him that transparency is one of the core values of Web 2.0
Well, it seems that it simply took longer than expected to for my comment to appear. I guess he was too busy telling us that the internet is doomed to moderate his comments. For a less gassy take on the same topic (Vint Cerf’s claim that one quarter of all 600m computers being part of a botnet) read ArsTechnica’s take on this.
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