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monsterstack
July 14th, 2009, 04:49 PM
As Heise reports (http://www.h-online.com/open/BBC-begins-work-on-open-source-documentary-series--/news/113750) [h-online.com]:


The BBC has begun working on a series of four one-hour documentaries for its BBC Two channel about how the web has, and still is, changing our lives. The current working title for the open and collaborative documentary series is the "Digital Revolution". According to a post on the Digital Revolution Blog, the goal of the project is to open up the production process as much as possible by asking for advice and stories from online users and by sharing as many of the production teams thoughts and ideas as possible. The documentary will take a look at the World Wide Web, created by Sir Tim Berners-Lee over twenty years ago, and focus on how it has changed our lives, including how we communicate, disseminate knowledge and share information.

You can check out how it's coming along over here (http://www.bbc.co.uk/digitalrevolution/) [bbc.co.uk].

Hopefully something to get excited about.

azangru
July 14th, 2009, 06:19 PM
Great news!

Would be even greater if they were doing an open-source documentary on open-source software, though :p

justsomedude
July 14th, 2009, 06:49 PM
Great news!

Would be even greater if they were doing an open-source documentary on open-source software, though :p

Maybe. (http://www.computerworlduk.com/toolbox/open-source/applications/news/index.cfm?newsid=7238)

areteichi
July 14th, 2009, 07:33 PM
Ironically, firefox (or flash to be more precise) freezes when I try playing any video on BBC. I will watch it in a public computer when it comes out.