Fascinating video by media agenda DBA Worldwide, collating stats to illustrate a day in the life of social media. (via BBC College of Journalism)

The BBC has started letting their video be embedded on other sites.  The first few videos are available on the technology section of the BBC News website (which I set up in 2001). They include a video on Internet football fans and a report from the Bafta Video Game Awards. As Andy Dickinson comments on an embedded BBC video on his blog, “How cool is that? The BBC said there

Netscape founder Marc Andreessen shared his provocative ideas on newspapers, the future of the internet and more on Charlie Rose. Whether you agree with him or not that the printing presses should be shut down, Andreessen is an engaging speaker and well worth listening to. Oh, and he believes video gaming is a core human experience, and Gears of War 2 is his favourite game at the moment. (Via Six

The exponential growth of the information age globally raises more questions than answers. (Via Rob Fields, Heleana Quartey)

Anti-Facebook song to the tune of Billy Joel’s We Didn’t Start The Fire, by Rebelvirals. (Via Richard Brennan’s Newjiffy)

The BBC News website is gearing up to unveil its new look which will include wider pages and bigger images, according to website editor Steve Herrmann. The current look dates back to 2003 and it is showing its age. After all, Internet time moves at a faster pace than regular time. But one of the most welcomed changes will be the use of Flash embedded video, rather than pop-ups in

A student sent me this clip from the British comedy programme, Yes Prime Minister, on who reads the newspapers in Britain. It is very funny, especially because its analysis is spot on

The BBC has finally started to roll out the use of embedded video in Flash, after a successful trial last year. The trial found, unsurprisingly, that people liked having the video as an embedded Flash file in story pages. One of the first stories to use the new player was a behind the scenes look at Google’s approach to office space on the BBC News website’s technology index. Up until

Clark Boyd is technology correspondent for The World, a coproduction of the BBC and WGBH, and funded by Public Radio International. I caught up with him in Boston to reflect back on his three years of podcasting and look ahead to the future of radio. [vodpod id=ExternalVideo.478889&w=425&h=350&fv=] Technorati Tags: BBC, WGBH, podcasting, technology