I'm across town in Edinburgh at the BBC Backstage TV Un-festival. (BBC Backstage is the BBC's developers' network. They produce a number of content feeds and application hooks (APIs) that allow people to remix BBC content in hopefully new and interesting ways.) Ian Forrester of Backstage kicked off the day by saying:
The whole reason that we are here is the clash of online and TV. I want you to go to the TV festival tomorrow and experience the difference in worlds. That is the whole reason that we are here.
Do people think that online is just this other place where people put their content out there?
At 3pm today, they will be recording a podcast with the title: Is TV dead?
It's an un-festival, pretty free form, but this is a good place to get a sense of what people are doing with digital video content. The crowd comes from a wide range of backgrounds including tech startups including such sites as Tape it Off the Internet and Joost, schools and universities, mobile companies and indy media activists.
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