2013-04-09
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Five years ago today, Flickr announced its video feature. Some users weren’t happy.
(I’m actually kind of happy I made these posts now, as they’ve all been taken down. One of the users has now left Flickr entirely. I’ve been through Flickr so I know that users own their images, but on the other hand I like that these otherwise ephemeral protests escaped their creators clutches.)
2012-04-28
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Eight years of BBC handbook covers, from 1961 to 1969. Some are from Between Channel’s three posts on the handbooks, but where his graphics were a little smaller, I headed off to Deptford Dralons and LoopZilla on Flickr.
The BBC Handbook was produced annually (with a short break) for nearly sixty years. As the British Online Archives site puts it,
Sir Ian Jacob, a former Director General of the BBC provides us with a useful statement of the handbooks’ aims:
“To provide a clear and reliable guide to the workings of the BBC, to survey the year’s work in British broadcasting, and to bring together as much information about the BBC as can be assembled within the covers of a small book.” (BBC Handbook, 1955)
Most of the handbooks follow the same template – a review of the BBC’s year, information on notable programmes, and other basic factual material including names of senior staff and governors, engineering developments, audience trends, the accounts, and a copy of the BBC’s charter.
There’s something particularly charming about the covers in this decade of change, with the Light, Home, and Third radio programmes still appearing on one early cover before television steps completely into the limelight by 1969.
To see all the 1960s covers, try Auntie’s Nuggets.
2012-04-10
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An advert for the Burroughs 205 Computer, designed by Campbell-Ewald Company, posted to Flickr by bustbright.
