Tsana Associates: Media

Thu, 19 Jul 2007 06:47:34 GMT

Net radio negotiations hit snag over DRM. Blog: Large Webcasters and the music industry are butting heads over a compromise to heightened fees that would require Net radio operators to implement anti-streamripping technology. [CNET News.com]

Wed, 18 Jul 2007 19:15:57 GMT

BBC suspends managers. 'Editorial leaders' to be suspended from six programmes, including Children in Need and Comic Relief, that breached BBC guidelines. By Tara Conlan. [Guardian Unlimited]

Fri, 13 Jul 2007 12:44:12 GMT

BBC error 'no reason to resign'. BBC One controller Peter Fincham says he is not planning to resign over the Queen documentary blunder. [BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition]

BBC apologises to Queen over Leibovitz photoshoot blunder

Thu, 12 Jul 2007 13:08:56 GMT

The BBC was forced to make an embarrassing apology to both the Royal Family and the photographer Annie Leibovitz today, after a promotional trailer wrongly showed that the Queen had stormed out of a photoshoot during a fly-on-the-wall documentary. The corporation admitted that a trailer shown yesterday, designed to publicise the forthcoming BBC One documentary series A Year With The Queen, gave the misleading impression that the monarch had abruptly halted the shoot when Ms Leibovitz asked her to remove her crown. Scenes of the pair clashing over the request were followed in the trailer by footage of the Queen walking down a corridor, and telling her lady-in-waiting: "I[base ']m not changing anything. I[base ']ve had enough dressing like this, thank you very much."

Fri, 04 May 2007 17:23:15 GMT

Hewitt on the ropes in the House of Commons.

Hewitt on the ropes

I have just had an email from a BBC television producer. He says:

Patricia Hewitt is speaking in the House of commons right now - apparently the MTAS security breach was Channel 4 News' fault because they left 2 hours between finding out about it and contact the DoH perss office.

She also just said 'there is no eveidence that memebrs of the public, or any other authorised people, other than ITN/Channel 4 News accessed the data',. This got enormous laughs and cries of 'yer what? Yer what? Yer what yer what yer what?' from the opposition benches.

Just thought you might like to know.

Let us not mince words. Hewitt is being...terminologically inexact.

The sequence of events, with the second security breach, was as follows:

NHS BLOG DOCTOR was tipped off about it early that afternoon. At 14.10 on Thursday 26th April**, I published an article entitled âo[ogonek]MTAS - would someone tell me this is not true." Within an hour I had proof positive that the breach existed.
I telephoned Victoria Macdonald of Channel 4 news and gave her the story.
I considered that, journalist scoop though this was, the security breach was appalling, and threatened the confidentially of doctorsâo[dot accent] private job applications. I therefore telephoned the Department of Health and was finally put through to Mike Clement, the MTAS project manager. I notified him of the problem.
I backed this phone call up with an email sent to Mike Clement at 15.59 on the same day.
The MTAS site was taken down (by Mike Clement I assume) within a few minutes.
At 18.08 I had this final exchange of emails with Mike Clement

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike.Clement@dh.gsi.gov.uk [mailto:Mike.Clement@dh.gsi.gov.uk]
Sent: 26 April 2007 18:05 To: Dr John Crippen Subject: Re: FW: ? another MTAS leak

Dr Crippen

Thank you for alerting me to this issue.

Regards

Mike Clement
MTAS project manager.
Tel 020 7633 7020

Workforce Directorate
Working differently

__________

Mike

That's OK

I see the site is now down for "essential repairs"

I think it is all outrageous, but having been tipped off about this, whilst I have written it up, it seemed right and proper to make sure it was stopped ASAP

It is still outrageous though!

John

Hewitt is being both dishonest and disreputable.

I am not a junior hospital doctor.
I am not registered with MTAS.
In this context I am a member of the general public. I was able to access details of applications on the MTAS site, and did so.
Many others did so too.

The security of the MTAS site was appalling. Victoria Macdonald is a highly respected Channel 4 journalist and the attempt somehow to blame her, or Channel 4, for the MTAS problems is disgraceful.

This now goes beyond political rough and tumble. Hewitt has lied to the House of Commons.

Time she resigned.

_________________

** The first post of this article stated, incorrectly, that my article was published on Wednesday 25th April. It was in fact first published on Thursday 26th April and drew attention to the second huge security breach of MTAS. The first security breach story was reported on Wednesday 25 April by Victoria MacDonald of Channel 4

Apologies for any confusion. By Dr John Crippen. [NHS Blog Doctor]

Tue, 01 May 2007 15:55:46 GMT

Channel 4 profits slump by 70%. Channel 4 blames falling advertising revenues and higher digital TV costs for a 70% slump in profits. [BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition]

Mon, 23 Apr 2007 13:23:28 GMT

Image: AttenTV is watching you. A service called AttenTV turns "clickstreams" into entertainment--and one day, a likely marketing dream. [CNET News.com]

Mon, 23 Apr 2007 08:33:11 GMT

Viewers 'lose millions' to GMTV. GMTV suspends phone-ins after a BBC investigation finds callers have been defrauded out of millions of pounds. [BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition]

Tue, 17 Apr 2007 09:58:52 GMT

Microsoft Wary of DoubleClick Buyout . Microsoft said yesterday that Google's proposed purchase of Internet advertising company DoubleClick raises antitrust and privacy concerns that deserve careful review by authorities. By Sam Diaz. [washingtonpost.com - Business News From The Washington Post]

Thu, 05 Apr 2007 14:05:57 GMT

Sir Michael Lyons appointed BBC Trust chairman. Sir Michael Lyons to replace Michael Grade. [Guardian Unlimited]

Wed, 04 Apr 2007 08:19:37 GMT

Advertising: DoubleClick to Set Up an Exchange for Buying and Selling Digital Ads. The exchange will bring Web publishers and ad buyers together on a Web site where they can participate in auctions for ad space. By LOUISE STORY. [NYT > Business]

Mon, 02 Apr 2007 08:41:31 GMT

Advertising: Joint Promotion Adds Stickers to Sweet Smell of Marketing. A promotion for Omni Hotels and Starbucks will put aromatic stickers on some copies of USA Today. By STUART ELLIOTT. [NYT > Business]

Fri, 30 Mar 2007 06:42:14 GMT

BBC offers its shows via mobiles. BBC TV and radio programmes will be available on a trio of mobile phone networks for a trial period. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]

Wed, 28 Mar 2007 07:02:08 GMT

Yahoo expands mobile ad, content offerings. Yahoo lets companies monetize mobile content, enables regular Web sites to be viewed on handheld devices. [CNET News.com]

Tue, 27 Mar 2007 12:02:48 GMT

Advertising: In London, a Trial Over an Anonymous Blog. Testimony has offered new insights into the hands-on style of the chief executive of the WPP Group, and the strong feelings it has sometimes produced. By ERIC PFANNER. [NYT > Business]

Tue, 27 Mar 2007 11:58:13 GMT

Reading RSS feeds on a phone. Reading the manual of my new cellphone (you can only imagine how much interesting stuff is hidden in manuals) I discovered that the built-in web browser also supports RSS. After testing it I must admit that in a way it is true, the browser does render RSS feeds, the only problem is that it's treating them just like a bookmarked html pages: you click it, you download it, you see a list of items, you can read a single item. No feed polling, no OPML import, no river of news, basically no nothing. We see a lot of implementations of this kind: done by people who don't use RSS and don't get it, building something that can render xml code, totally missing the point. At this point I am wondering what kind of feedback all my blogging friends who have received free phones from Nokia gave back. After switching to Google Reader I don't have a good feed reader for my phone anymore (BlogLines mobile as good, but the desktop counterpart was outdated) and miss reading feeds on my phone. Considering the cost of mobile bandwidth, a centralized service is the way to go (no sense downloading hundreds of feeds to my phone if I'm not going to read them). I guess I'll wait for google to fix their mobile version, they did the best river of news aggregagtor after all.

Tags: Nokia, n73, RSS, RSS Readers

[Paolo Valdemarin: Paolo's Weblog]

Fri, 16 Mar 2007 06:34:32 GMT

R.I.P. ITV Play. The luck's run out for the digital channel dedicated to audience quizzes. [BBC News | UK | UK Edition]

Fri, 09 Mar 2007 07:05:01 GMT

Police may be called in over fixed TV shows. Channel Five join ITV and Channel 4 in pulling programmes. [Guardian Unlimited]

Tue, 06 Mar 2007 17:54:11 GMT

ITV suspends premium phone-ins. ITV is suspending all premium-rate phone-ins, interactive competitions and votes on shows including This Morning. [BBC News | UK | UK Edition]

Thu, 01 Mar 2007 08:17:51 GMT

TV blackout in Virgin-BSkyB row. Virgin Media customers lose access to some BSkyB channels after a row over TV rights goes unresolved. [BBC News | UK | UK Edition]

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 07:09:25 GMT

Ofcom to probe BSkyB ITV stake. Media watchdog Ofcom is ordered to investigate BSkyB's controversial purchase of a 17.9% stake in ITV. [BBC News | UK | UK Edition]

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 07:21:56 GMT

Google lets site targeting advertisers pay per click. Blog: Google will soon let advertisers bid on a cost-per-click basis for ads they target on specific publisher Web sites. Right now,... [CNET News.com]

Thu, 08 Feb 2007 15:56:41 GMT

£25K for paper's food review. The Irish News must pay £25,000 to a west Belfast restaurant owner for a defamatory food review. [BBC News | UK | UK Edition]

Thu, 08 Feb 2007 15:56:02 GMT

Sky's top shows to go terrestrial. Sky is to make some of its most popular programmes, movies and sports available on digital terrestrial television. [BBC News | UK | UK Edition]

Wed, 07 Feb 2007 06:36:46 GMT

Children's catalogue 'suggestive'. A catalogue for children's clothes is criticised by a watchdog for using pictures of children in suggestive poses. [BBC News | UK | UK Edition]