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Olympic hurdles; layout thanks
While in Ireland a year and a half ago, I went to one of the most western parts of Europe, Valentia Island. The early radio operators there were one of the only points of contact for ocean going vessels, thanks greatly to the work of Guglielmo Marconi.
One hundred years ago this past December, Marconi completed the world’s first transatlantic radio broadcast, which arguably began the era of mass communication. The CBC has put together an innovative site dedicated to that event, including a Global Sampler that allows you to play and mix sound samples from around the world.
The CBC, however, is now facing the new realities of global communication thanks to the International Olympic Committe.
Because of the IOC’s copyright rules, webcasters are not allowed to play an audio or video samples from the Games in Salt Lake City. As a result, the daily online video of the flagship news program, The National, contains “restricted content”. The Mother Corp. has managed to spin this into a good thing for online journalism by creating, in the words CBC News Online's Gary Graves, “a twice-daily newscast created exclusively for Web viewers”.
Kudos once again to the CBC for not taking the easy route when it comes to online media.
Thanks, also, to Zeldman and glish.com (among others) for linking to the CSS templates.