Simon Booth

Tags:itunes, music downloadsHave been trying MSN Music and iTunes. Once set up it is almost evil how easily you can download/buy new music. Have bought a couple of albums and a single already.

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Tags:bbc, forums, trustThe recent Hutton report and subsequent furore have highlighted the issue of the BBC and trust. Trust is important for online communities too. So, I set off to thinking about how trust could be built into the new BBC messageboards system.
Not all of the ideas are fully formed, nor are they necessarily all […]

Tags:bbc, forums, hosting, moderationHere’s an idea to mull over: every BBC message board should have an area dedicated to communication between the board’s users and its hosts.
I’ve often seen users post messages that attempt to get the hosts (or moderators) attention. Would it be easier to have a dedicated area for this? Could also be […]

Tags:bbc, fame academy, forums, hostingInteresting stuff happening on the Points of View messageboards. A lot of people are complaining about bias in the Fame Academy final. The situation seems to have been exacerbated by the following shortcomings:
* Threads are sorted by creation date, not most recent posting date. This has led to people creating new […]

Tags:forums, usabilityA Google search for “message board usability” leads to a post on the message boards of Free Pint, which has a reply mentioning Lizze Jackson, Editor BBCi Communities. This leads to two presentations: one on The Snail Trail of Reputation and one on Presenting the 21st Century.

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