Business Summary: Chocolatiers Thornton’s Rise and Fall
Great piece from Tim Richardson on the Guardian summarising chocolatiers Thornton’s rise and fall on the high street. Worth a read.
A big multiplatform opportunity for the BBC?
This from Bramble Media looks interesting. On paper its an engaging goal. And from a web production point of view it’s also one oozing excitement.
Why? Because aside from the brilliant Virtual Revolution, I’ve always felt the BBC hasn’t quite found the holy grail of a proven track record in truly inspiring, truly multiplatform content.
There’s always been an eagerness. A keenness to come up with a brilliant idea, but often it hasn’t quite worked online.
Could this be the next big piece of multiplatform output for the BBC? I hope so. I could do with a spot of inspiration.
UPDATE Thanks to onPause for flagging up the doc being talking about here - The Code. Twitter account to follow @BBCCode.
Forcing YouTube videos from 4:3 to 16:9
Impressed to see that YouTube will correct erroneously encoded 4:3 video to the appropriate 16:9 by adding YT:stretch=16:9 to the video tag box. Weird. Wonderful. Incredibly impressive.
Thanks to @fords for the Googling and the reading and the sharing.
There are moments when Streisand is a necessary evil
… and this is one of them.
Kigali Wire Roughbook: the new newsroom
kigaliwireroughbook: In Graham’s analysis of the Forbes newsroom project we get a bonus peek at the model he used when developing Kigaliwire:
Compare and contrast. The thinking behind the impressive new newsroom at Forbes (above). And the original thinking behind kigaliwire (below)
I saw this diagram at a presentation Graham did for the BBC College of Journalism. The striking thing for me isn’t actually the diagram or the scarily accurate way he can group input, function and output, more that this is the work he loves doing.
I am currently Out of the Office
I am out of the office today producing video coverage for a BBC Academy event in Coventry.
This is not a jolly. It’s work.
I will also be doing some bug fixing on the CoJo International website.
CoJo Blog queries should go to Charles Miller. Website first line support queries should go to Martin Lloyd-WC who is both willing and able (although in truth, I didn’t actually warn him I was labelling him this way).
If you have my mobile number you can call me. But do please remember that at the present time at least I’m a bit like a boy who’s lost his teddy bear.
Thanking you for your time and attention.
“If you can’t spot the arsehole in the room …
… it’s probably you.”
I’m happy to confirm I’m confident I’m not that arsehole.
A touching piece of prose …
.. from Twitter pal Karen Redman whose beautiful words describing memories of her father strike a chord.
I may have discovered …
… a way of stopping my current wave of insomnia.
As Bank Holidays go …
… my weekend break in Gloucestershire served up medicine I should have been prescribed years ago.
