The BBC’s new Internet blog is proving a useful place to engage with BBC techies on how they develop new media and run bbc.co.uk. It covers hot topics like provision for Linux users, DAB, DTT, DRM, Dirac video codecs ….

In a typical BBC way we will try and do both things i.e. provide a place where BBC people can blog about BBC things but also link out to the places where the good conversations are, which will include personal blogs like James’. I hope the blog will develop so it can be a portal for this.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2007/10/its_good_to_talk_1.html

It won’t suprise you that the most difficult thing was deciding what to call it…!

Was the Google Reader link there yesterday? I must have missed it. Good on you – I’ll certainly subscribe to the feed. It’s a bit different to my own ‘virtual group blog’ notion, which would be a bit more editorialised. But for zero production effort, this certainly goes a long way towards it.

(PS: edited to remove indications of my own ignorance. Looks like you can actually set Google Reader to share stuff automatically.)

“Many of those likely to contribute to the BBC site – eg Nick Reynolds, the ‘editor‘ of the new blog – already have their own external blogs, where they’ve been quite happy to discuss and disclose their internal work. Would have been an ideal opportunity for a ‘virtual group blog’…”

… which the BBC Internet Blog links to. It’s here:

http://www.google.com/reader/shared/user/08891273145320764583/label/bbc-staff

I guess the difference here is that while I can put any old crap up on my personal blog, for example a review of the beer I drank in Australia recently – http://james.cridland.net/blog/2007/10/18/australia-a-good-country-for-beer/ – you’ll not get any of that on the proper BBC Internet Blog. For which we all breathe a sigh of relief!