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The Virtual Revolution mashed-up by those darn users

Mike Butcher
Saturday, January 30th, 2010
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Mike Butcher is the European Editor for TechCrunch. A former grunge rock drummer, he became a long time journalist, and has since written for UK national newspapers and magazines including The Financial Times, The Guardian, The Times, The Daily Telegraph and The New Statesman. Mike is also a co-founder and shareholder of TechHub, a co-working space/service/community with several locations... → Learn More

The BBC’s new documentary, The Virtual Revolution, is ploughing a few new paths. Not only is it broadcasting an official hashtag every time it appears on a Saturday night (#bbcrevolution is way longer than my suggested #vrev… so much for crowdsourcing, but hey). It’s also allowing anyone to mashup its footage in a Creative Commons kind of way. Very nice of them. Of course, some of the results are, rather than re-imagining the storytelling, designed instead to make fun of the pundits on the show. Darn that InterWeb! This one is by Cassetteboy.

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  • John

    Sad thing about this show is its apparent under promotion & lack of buzz.

    Oh, and the “sitting with a mac in varied locations to underline this is all about technology”.

    Apart from that – very enjoyable. And of course @ajkeen stole the show with his dog remark.

    John

  • William

    I’ll be looking out for the credit for Ivo Gormley’s “Us Now”….

  • Steve

    Supremely ironic that a programme that bills itself as…
    “A unique open source BBC documentary about the web.”
    …is restricted in the BBC iPlayer and only available in the UK. Thank goodness for bittorrent!

  • http://twitter.com/mikebutcher Mike Butcher

    I believe the show will appear on the BBC iPlayer internationally shortly. (The first show to do so I gather)

  • Steve

    Not according to @aleksk. See tweet here…

    Which is a shame as it goes against the whole ethos of the project and means that some of those who contributed can’t watch.

  • AlexP

    evidently hasn’t been under promoted on the web….

  • http://twitter.com/mikebutcher Mike Butcher

    Yes, correct, shame about that.

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