– Two thirds of the UK have dabbled in digital: A quarter of all UK web users have started their own blog or website, a quarter have downloaded a film and about 40 percent have read a blog. Not great news for the music industry: nearly three quarters have downloaded music online but around half the people surveyed for the Harris Interactive/Guardian poll said they don’t pay for online music and only 35 percent said illegal downloads or sharing pirated tracks is wrong. One massive project underway: The digital day-in-the-life “blog” spearheaded by History Matters; the BBC has details.
— BBC’s mobile Doctor Who was a flop: The one-minute mobisodes series recorded 40,000 downloads, but online teasers notched up 2.6 million. BBC Wales new media editor Iain Tweedale said it was a commercial problem because though the BBC content was free, operators charged
This article originally appeared in MediaGuardian.
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