The BBC has been marking 10 years of bbc.co.uk with a series of posts on the BBC Internet blog. They offer an insight into the creation of what has become a new arm of the corporation, and the third most visited site in Britain, behind only Google and MSN, with 17m regular users in the UK, and many more globally. Usually we tend to hear only from the bosses about

The BBC homepage is getting what Richard Titus, the man leading the project, humbly describes as a “lick of paint”. In a post on the BBC Internet blog, he outlines the thinking behind the “cleaner, more open and more easily readable” site. The page is up in beta already, and looks and feels like a massive improvement over the existing homepage. As Titus explains, it draws heavily from the “ongoing