Useful short piece by David Jennings, who recently emerged from book-writing purdah (and with whom I've collaborated in the past on several commercial projects), summarising changes in the way the BBC organises its online music resources and pointing out that the BBC is now linking extensively to Wikipedia entries about music and musicians:
"There have been previous cases of online sites like GoFish and Upto11.net placing their trust in Wikipedia instead of licensing commercial sources like Muze or AMG, but is the BBC the first large traditional media corporation to do so?"
Poking about on the BBC 6 web site I see that the BBC is also now freely linking to search-returns from MySpace and YouTube. See, for example, the "across the web" links on the right hand side of this page about Bob Dylan's (excellent) Theme Time Radio Hour, which sadly seems only to be available in archive form if you have a UK IP address.
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