Reading the website about this new BBC project I couldn’t help but think back to the Ultralab project ‘Every Object Tells a Story‘ with the Victoria and Albert Museum back in 2004. Not a project I worked on myself, but the parallels with the BBC are obvious, particularly the ability to ‘add an object’ with an account of their significance to individuals and groups participating. Truly original ideas are hard to come by…

Great as BBC iPlayer is, I like many mac users had struggled when using Firefox to download programmes. For some reason, after each download I was prompted to install the iPlayer desktop application again, but in doing so was still only able to download a single programme before being stick in the loop again.

The work round for me was to install Google Chrome which works fine although this is a ‘clunky’ solution as I still use Firefox for my main browser – Google adoption has to stop somewhere!