Industry Moves: Berners-Lee Helps Brown; Baz In B2B Media; Blyk Marketer Leaves

imageBerners-Lee helps Brown: Struggling to stay credible amid flagging support and a political malaise, Gordon Brown has brought father of the World wide Web Sir Tim Berners-Lee in to his “government of all talents” as an advisor on releasing official data. Brown told Parliament in a speech on Wednesday: “So that government information is accessible and useful for the widest possible group of people, I have asked Sir Tim Berners-Lee… to help us drive the opening up of access to Government data in the web over the coming month.”

Bazalgette to CIG: Endemol’s former chief creative officer Peter “Big Brother” Bazalgette has joined a new B2B media investment vehicle Critical Investment Group as a non-executive director. The company hopes to become AIM-listed on June 25 and is interested in investing in publishing and events in Britain and elsewhere, specifically “academic, construction, finance, healthcare, legal, market research, medical and scientific” publishers. In March Bazalgette became chairman of Sony Pictures Television in the UK. Via Telegraph.co.uk.

Blyk: The ad-funded mobile network is without a marketing director after Dean Merrion stepped down from the company this week after two years, without a job to go to. The company hopes to fill the role with an internals candidate. Merrion joined from Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) and helped Blyk gain more than 200,000 subscribers. From NMA.

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