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I was one of the two founders of BBC Backstage, sadly the BBC shut it down a few years after I left as it didn't have the support internally and the BBC became
by dotBen 5y ago
I was one of the two founders of BBC Backstage, sadly the BBC shut it down a few years after I left as it didn't have the support internally and the BBC became under even greater pressure to save money.
- mro_name 5y agothat's a shame. It shone so bright https://www.bbc.co.uk/academy/en/articles/art20130724121658626 https://www.bbc.co.uk/academy/en/articles/art201307241216586... and inspired my radio recorder to publish raw meta data.
- timthorn 5y agoThanks for that, Ben. I fondly remember your emails... I organised a talk for the RTS from Simon Parnall about TV Anytime some years prior to Backstage launching and was really excited to see feeds become available from the BBC - and similarly saddened when they died. Ironically, it would have probably been a politically astute thing to keep alive with the push in Government for Open Data at that point.
- dotBen 5y agoA number of people loosely connected with BBC Backstage (from inside the BBC at the time and outside of it) went to work for the UK Gov Digital Service under then-minister Francis Maude, which is where a lot of the Open Data stuff came from. So from that point of view, the work at the BBC did lead to a greater opening from within the government. I miss the BBC days fondly, very different to what I'm doing now but it was a great era.