Archive for youtube
What happens to MPs’ websites when Parliament is dissolved?
There was a little flurry of interest last year as to whether MPs with “MP” in their Twitter name would face a problem after Parliament is officially dissolved for the general election. That’s because after that point technically no-one is an MP and you’re not allowed to call yourself an MP if you aren’t one. That [...]
United breaks guitars: Dave Carroll's third song is out
The story of how United Airlines broke musician Dave Carroll’s guitar was one of the ‘business gets a monstering in social media’ stories of 2009. Carroll turned the incident into a song that made it big on YouTube, spawning huge traditional media coverage, knocking $180 million off United’s share price and highlighting the weaknesses in [...]
Digital Economy Bill: Parliamentarians reply to prospective candidates
Yesterday we covered an open letter from 25+ Liberal Democrat prospective Parliamentary candidates (and see also this comment from ex-MP Richard Allan), expressing concerns over the line the party had taken in the House of Lords on a key part of the Digital Economy Bill. The party’s DCMS (Department for Culture, Media and Sport) team [...]
What do the public want politicians to get up to online?
The Hansard Society has a new report out which asks the public what they want out of politicians and the political system online.
Although many studies have looked at what politicians do or don’t do online, those looking at what the public actually wants are rather rarer. That makes this a particularly welcome report and is [...]
How is Parliament doing at catching up with the existence of YouTube?
We’ve covered before the campaign by Jo Swinson and others to change the antiquated Parliamentary rules which ban MPs (and in theory other people too) from placing footage from Parliament on YouTube.
Here’s the latest from Jo Swinson about the campaign (via an update sent to fans of the campaign on Facebook):
In my last update I [...]
How to link to a specific time in a YouTube video
This feature has now been around for a little while, but it’s not that well known. Also it can be hard to find information about it online as people often call it deep linking – which makes sense if you know the jargon but isn’t the sort of phrase you’d otherwise guess is the one [...]
Automatic subtitling comes to YouTube – the implications for search
First and foremost, the news that YouTube is rolling out automatic subtitling is good news for the hard of hearing: The machine-generated captions will initially be generated in English. At first they will only be found on 13 channels. These include National Geographic, Columbia, as well as most Google and YouTube channels… Currently YouTube offers [...]
What are the lessons from Channel 4's YouTube deal?
The news that Channel 4 is going to use YouTube as the mechanism for providing catch-up and archive content, starting in November, is of obvious direct interest to the TV industry. But Channel 4′s decision to go with YouTube also has wider lessons which apply across other sectors. First, even Channel 4 – an organisation [...]
