Er, a bit behind the times, but never mind. The BBC now has a prominent selector for the UK and International versions at the top of every single news page. They explain this on their help page with this marvellous piece of copy: You have a ...

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The BBC has been playing with blogs, on and off, for the last couple of years. There was even an official Scotblog but that seemed to come to an end in November 2004. There have been any number of articles which resemble weblogs, where new content is added to the top of an article to display breaking news, such as the

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After posting about the BBC putting up a show for download (and remembering, of course, their ongoing iMP trials), NBC will be putting up its NBC Nightly News for broadcast on the Internet starting on November...

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A new story on the BBC news website about how we should use second class post instead of first class passes the time, but of real interest is the link in the top-right to

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It’s interesting to note the slow but inexorable march of blog-content on the BBC website. First of all there was the Scotblog and then more famously the reporters’ log during the Iraq war. Now (and since who knows when) there’s the

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We all know that the BBC has had RSS autodiscovery links on their main pages for ages now (for example, on http://news.bbc.co.uk/) but the BBC Magazine section has an FAQ which contains this: Is there an RSS feed for...

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The BBC 4 Screensaver is elegant, relaxing and beautiful. Worthy of any desktop (so long as it’s Windows or Mac).

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Of course, talking about iCan (which in case you didn’t know is the new activism service from the BBC), there’s an excellent campaign to provide MP3 Downloads from the BBC. Visit, endorse. Then join and endorse again. It’s an absolute tragedy...

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BBC! Unified login! Now! Jesus. I must have about ten logins for different parts of the BBC website, and I still need more. How fucking annoying is that? Can’t they have some method of sharing username/passwords across the system? I have logins for the localised message boards, blogging system (which I now can’t even find), iCan, Music meassageboards, and Christ knows what else – Celebda...

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The “BBC Headlines for your site” page I was looking for a while ago turns up here, which has an absolutely hideous URL, but fortunately for us humans is mapped to http://www.bbc.co.uk/syndication. This comes hot on the heels of

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