Comments on BBC 2.0 - but why would you want centralised social media?TypePad2006-04-27T09:51:00ZEwan McIntoshhttps://edu.blogs.com/edublogs/tag:typepad.com,2003:https://edu.blogs.com/edublogs/2006/04/bbc_20_but_why_/comments/atom.xml/Ewan McIntosh commented on 'BBC 2.0 - but why would you want centralised social media?'tag:typepad.com,2003:6a00d83451f00f69e200d83487b71953ef2006-04-29T07:48:28Z2007-04-26T09:10:15ZEwan McIntoshhttp://edu.blogs.comYou're absolutely right, and we know so from looking at the French example. My fiancé's French but living here and...<p>You're absolutely right, and we know so from looking at the French example. My fiancé's French but living here and does not blog. Her family and friends still in France - and who all, obviously, ressemble her to some point - do blog and use Flickr as if it were second nature, thanks to France Inter, Europe 2 and Skyblogs. Radio 4 mentions podcasts fleetingly but it's all a bit perfunctory.</p>
<p>Perhaps they really do see themselves as the National Bank of Media, that they must dispense everything for it to be bona fide. Worse still, their audience sees them as this. Yikes. Scary thought.</p>Tom Coates commented on 'BBC 2.0 - but why would you want centralised social media?'tag:typepad.com,2003:6a00d83451f00f69e200d83487ab7153ef2006-04-28T23:23:14Z2007-04-26T09:08:59ZTom Coateshttp://www.plasticbag.org/Honestly, for the most part, I'm not sure that it can. More specifically, I'm not sure that it should. I...<p>Honestly, for the most part, I'm not sure that it can. More specifically, I'm not sure that it should. I totally agree with your statement that, "the BBC is in an enviable and sole position to convince the masses that blogging, podcasting and sharing material is a Good Thing. I can't do it. Hugh can't do it. But the BBC quite possibly can." The only thing I'd add is that there are a whole bunch of ways that they could be doing that - they could be pushing the weblog as a medium of self-expression via TV and radio programmes for a start. They could be explaining new services like Flickr and MySpace. That's the main way that the French media are pushing these new areas - by talking about them and playing with them - big media and independent media talking with one another. Alongside that stuff, they could continue to make their services actually work as part of the ecology that already exists. </p>
<p>But then, this isn't exactly a new debate. I did a presentation to the BBC in 2002 in which I said pretty much exactly the same things - here's the Powerpoint file: <a href="http://www.plasticbag.org/files/misc/bbc.ppt" rel="nofollow">Mainstream Media and Personal Publishing</a>.</p>