links for 2008-07-09

There is a similar multi-cultural happening in Athens which we are going to miss by a few days, otherwise we would have gone to show support. A lot of immigrant children in Greece grow up with no papers & face being deported to places they've never seen.

"The final episode was the most-watched programme of the week. If confirmed when final figures are published, Journey's End will have achieved the highest chart position in Doctor Who's history. The AI for the programme was 91, virtually unprecedented."

"In 1922 Edison predicted movies would replace textbooks. In 1945 one forecaster imagined radios as common as blackboards. In the 60s, Skinner predicted machines and programmed instruction would double the amount of information students could learn."

Dan generates word clouds of what is on the minds of the BBC Trust and the BBC's management. The executive think a lot about 'programmes', 'Radio' and 'radio', but I don't see very much 'web' or 'Internet' or 'website' or 'bbc.co.uk'

I think the unspoken conspiracy here is that the BBC's Editors Blog is getting Mike Rudin to post just to keep their 'average comments per post' statistics up - 310 on the last one...