2 responses to “Critics round on BBC 2.0 plans”
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I’m not going to disagree with most of the things they’re suggesting – although I work in social software and social media and used to work at the BBC and have to say that some of the user-generated stuff they’re talking about sounds pretty ropey. I do wonder about their ability to do half of the stuff they’re talking about – particularly given that (although they must seem to have an almost unlimited budget compared to many companies, they’re completely dwarfed in technical terms by organisations like Yahoo, Apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon etc. But my main issue is not with any of that – it’s with this recurrent … well … whining … that the world’s changing so fast and we can’t keep up. I mean seriously – get over it already! Doesn’t it feel to you like an excuse? It’s like – if we claim that the world’s changing absurdly fast then we have an excuse for not having done enough to keep up. Well you shouldn’t have an excuse. The BBC has a thousand odd web and technology people – no requirement whatsoever to make money or please shareholders and years and years of some of the UK’s best people’s time. If management have only noticed the change now, then they really need to be examining why they weren’t listening before, not making bloody excuses.
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I hear you, Tom, but just don’t hear the whining. But then I haven’t worked there, so perhaps I’m not so sensitized to it. As a user of BBC services, and a fully piad up on eat that, I genrally do feel positive about the direction their headed in.
But then, bureaucracies and me don’t mix very well at all – most I come close to I end up feeling pretty negtative about. And any organisation like the BBC carries elements of bureaucracy masquerading as management.
Maybe I won’t ruin my impression by taking too close a look. Perhaps, the thing is that they are best admired at a distance. Still, admire the BBC I do.
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