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[_] Death to s/facebook/fedbook and the great CIA social datamining exercise

anthony story anthony at junctionyk.co.uk
Wed Jan 2 14:50:24 GMT 2008

From: Tom Gidden [mailto:tom at gidden.net] Sent: 02 January 2008 14:27

>Funnily enough, I was reminded of these exact issues a couple of weeks  
>ago, while watching a 28-year-old sitcom episode, which framed the  
>issue quite nicely...

>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Brother_%28Yes_Minister%29


One anecdote from the Yes Minister series I liked was that, despite its
believability, neither of the writers ever worked for the civil service.
Instead, as long-term (suffering) BBC employees, they based the characters
and interaction on life at the BEEB - and just threw in a political
plotline.

Anyone know if things have progressed at the BBC in the Mark Thompson era?


Anthony

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