https://meleleh.pages.dev/blogs/journalismlabs/ This is Journalism Labs, a blog about BBC FM&T Journalism Design and Development. This is where we'll be sharing our thoughts on new and better ideas for journalism on the web. en Copyright 2010 Thu, 27 May 2010 15:33:37 +0000 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=4.1 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Journalism Labs, launched at the end of 2008, was a six month experiment to share the work of the technical and design teams behind the BBC News, Sport and Weather websites. The experiment is now over and we've decided to... FM&T Journalism (BBC News) https://meleleh.pages.dev/blogs/journalismlabs/2010/05/pub.html https://meleleh.pages.dev/blogs/journalismlabs/2010/05/pub.html Thu, 27 May 2010 15:33:37 +0000 Back in March when we relaunched the F1 section of the sport site we ran a small trial around making the broadcast data available for people to download into their online calendars. We had many positive feedback emails around this... James Howard (BBC News) https://meleleh.pages.dev/blogs/journalismlabs/2009/08/the_scheduled_sporting_calenda.html https://meleleh.pages.dev/blogs/journalismlabs/2009/08/the_scheduled_sporting_calenda.html Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:33:11 +0000 Almost as soon as the F1 season had started and had settled down, minds were refocussed on what we needed to achieve on the sport site for the new football season. When the deal was signed for BBC Sport to... James Howard (BBC News) https://meleleh.pages.dev/blogs/journalismlabs/2009/08/a_slightly_different_ball_game.html https://meleleh.pages.dev/blogs/journalismlabs/2009/08/a_slightly_different_ball_game.html Fri, 07 Aug 2009 17:31:50 +0000 Google has just launched a new version of their iGoogle UK portal and any user signing up for the first time will now get a new optimised BBC News widget as a pre-installed feature on their portal page. Users with... Olaf Geuer (BBC News) https://meleleh.pages.dev/blogs/journalismlabs/2009/07/bbc_news_widget_becomes_defaul.html https://meleleh.pages.dev/blogs/journalismlabs/2009/07/bbc_news_widget_becomes_defaul.html Tue, 28 Jul 2009 12:38:10 +0000 I lead a small team of developers charged with keeping the nation's sports fans informed with the latest sports scores, results, tables and fixtures (or, depending on your sport, tournaments, order of play, leaderboards, rankings, race meetings ...). We have... Mike Hilton (BBC News) https://meleleh.pages.dev/blogs/journalismlabs/2009/06/a_week_in_the_life_of_bbc_spor.html https://meleleh.pages.dev/blogs/journalismlabs/2009/06/a_week_in_the_life_of_bbc_spor.html Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:04:02 +0000 Elections are back, and this time they're European. Whenever an election is on the horizon, a small group of us from across BBC News gather. We meet to discuss how best to cover it on each of the BBC's outlets,... Gareth Owen (BBC News) https://meleleh.pages.dev/blogs/journalismlabs/2009/06/european_elections.html https://meleleh.pages.dev/blogs/journalismlabs/2009/06/european_elections.html Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:29:25 +0000 Over the last year, I've been really encouraged that usage of the BBC mobile site has virtually doubled. BBC Mobile now reaches around 4m UK users and much of the ongoing growth has been driven by the appeal of BBC... Gavin Gibbons (BBC News) https://meleleh.pages.dev/blogs/journalismlabs/2009/05/relaunching_the_news_sport_mob.html https://meleleh.pages.dev/blogs/journalismlabs/2009/05/relaunching_the_news_sport_mob.html Wed, 06 May 2009 16:55:00 +0000 "Great idea...and computing technology at its best," on the one hand and on the other: "Don't like it. Too fussy and can't really see the relevance." These are two of the e-mails we've had from our users commenting on... John Walton (BBC News) https://meleleh.pages.dev/blogs/journalismlabs/2009/05/mapping_the_news.html https://meleleh.pages.dev/blogs/journalismlabs/2009/05/mapping_the_news.html Wed, 06 May 2009 12:39:09 +0000 I was introduced to the project to deliver a new BBC Weather website in early 2008 and spent the following 12 months running it. It has been an interesting experience! We took over responsibility for the BBC Weather website in... Peter Deslandes (BBC News) https://meleleh.pages.dev/blogs/journalismlabs/2009/05/making_the_new_bbc_weather_sit.html https://meleleh.pages.dev/blogs/journalismlabs/2009/05/making_the_new_bbc_weather_sit.html Tue, 05 May 2009 10:50:28 +0000 This week sees the launch of an important iteration to the BBC's Digital Text service on Freeview - revolving headlines at the top level.  We actually implemented the same update on the Sky platform back in March, but wanted to... Tristram Biggs (BBC News) https://meleleh.pages.dev/blogs/journalismlabs/2009/04/revolving_headlines_on_digital.html https://meleleh.pages.dev/blogs/journalismlabs/2009/04/revolving_headlines_on_digital.html Thu, 30 Apr 2009 12:06:31 +0000 The first Grand Prix is over and the wires have been burning with emails flying back and forth late at night between developers, product managers and editorial on the weekends action. A few late nights for everyone but we feel... James Howard (BBC News) https://meleleh.pages.dev/blogs/journalismlabs/2009/03/the_greatest_car_chase_in_the.html https://meleleh.pages.dev/blogs/journalismlabs/2009/03/the_greatest_car_chase_in_the.html Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:46:29 +0000 A data project that we've been working on for a while took on a more human face last week. The UK fatalities in Afghanistan and Iraq is a data-led interactive that was first published on the BBC News website about a... Bella Hurrell (BBC News) https://meleleh.pages.dev/blogs/journalismlabs/2009/03/a_data_project_that_we.html https://meleleh.pages.dev/blogs/journalismlabs/2009/03/a_data_project_that_we.html Fri, 13 Mar 2009 09:07:50 +0000 The first post on this blog promised that we'd discuss prototypes and experiments among other things. Well, today's post is about one such prototype that we'd like to share with you: BBC News Radar (http://radar.journalismlabs.com) I've been working at the... Jake MacMullin (BBC News) https://meleleh.pages.dev/blogs/journalismlabs/2009/02/bbc_news_radar.html https://meleleh.pages.dev/blogs/journalismlabs/2009/02/bbc_news_radar.html Thu, 19 Feb 2009 10:00:00 +0000 ... Tristram Biggs (BBC News) https://meleleh.pages.dev/blogs/journalismlabs/2008/12/journalism_and_iptv.html https://meleleh.pages.dev/blogs/journalismlabs/2008/12/journalism_and_iptv.html Mon, 22 Dec 2008 11:25:38 +0000 We've been experimenting with the Semantic Web using a prototype called Muddy Boots. The question that we're trying to answer is: Can a computer reliably identify the people and organisations in news stories? This is still work in progress, but... Jonathan Austin (BBC News) https://meleleh.pages.dev/blogs/journalismlabs/2008/12/muddy_boots.html https://meleleh.pages.dev/blogs/journalismlabs/2008/12/muddy_boots.html Wed, 10 Dec 2008 12:00:00 +0000