I’ve read Anthony Rose’s blog, and a few other reports, but I’m yet to come across credible, verifiable info on BBC’s stance on H.264, and what this means for Akamai and the ISPs. Previously, Telco2.0 had come up with some great figures on the impact of the iPlayer on the ISPs, which I confirmed with staff at PlusNet, and you sort of ‘assume’ that their info is credible and backed up by hard facts (innocent until proven guilty)

As a university student/researcher for a media analyst firm, this is interesting territory for me, but unless hard data/facts are put out in the open about the terms of the deals, expected impact on ISPs in tech/financial terms, who else do we believe but the bloggers? Nick, as editor of BBC’s tech blog, could you spk to your colleagues and get some official info put up? That, I’m sure, would help settle this matter once and for all…

Comments anyone?

Increasingly I think that journalists and bloggers have a lot more in common than they like to admit.

Certainly some “news stories” written about the BBC in the papers seem to be more about opinion and prejudice than hard fact.

I write a blog – aestivating nowadays – on Obesity Headlines. The aim is to parse headlines by linking back to the original research papers (where available) and then demonstrating where media reporting is wide of the mark in pursuit of a popular or ‘clever’ (alliterative, fits-in-space etc) headline.

On my regular blog (linked to my name here) I write about other stuff but sticking to the same principles. And the ‘awards’ I get are ’serious blogger’, ‘profound blogger’ etc.

Translation – low frequency of posting but heavy content means a serious but small – compared to more popular and non-fact-checking blogs – audience. How much one is committed to balance/ fact-checking and how much lack of traffic in 1000s bothers one would be determined by one’s aims for blogging.

You raise a good point overall but there are few bloggers out there who have the ability to write persuasively and who know something about the subject they are discussing. Most of the blogosphere is opinions and prejudices. Sad but true. Like in the real world.