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Dear Regulars
By jpenston | August 14, 2007 |
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I’m not ignoring you, I promise. It was summer last week and it was also my son’s birthday so I took him to the Emirates Stadium (it was Arsenal’s members day). There are some elements in my children’s education that I won’t leave to chance and this is one of them 
Then on Thursday I managed to secure a ticket to the Test match (cricket) and decided to make it all into an impromptu week off. It is one of the benefits of being self employed!
I’m preparing a piece on television content popularity based on BARB stats and the Long Tail model, but Andrew Orlowski called me up yesterday out of the blue and offered me a king’s ransom to write a piece on the iPlayer for The Register. Well, perhaps not a king’s ransom, but enough to pay for the beers I had at the cricket anyway.
So I agreed and you can read the result here. I came to the conclusion that all the fuss directed at the BBC is really a case of shooting the messenger. Ofcom are the ones responsible for the gunboat diplomacy in my view and it made me wonder (again) whose side they are on. Perhaps it is a regulator’s job to be dismissive of the interests of all its stakeholders on an equal basis?
If you are not a regular and are here because you read the piece on The Register… welcome! Have a look around (hopefully the iPhone inspired menu will help), put me in your RSS reader (Feedburner link) and come back another day.
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