For one day only, Penguins can fly

This is the BBC's April Fool's Day prank from 2008 - and demonstrates how, like YouTube, the iPlayer makes the unmissable... unmissable - for years to come.

Social media policies for your company

With employees blogging, using Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to document their lives, this has major implications for companies who have traditionally wanted to keep their laundry, dirty or otherwise, private. Now they are faced with a choice - to ban talking about work online altogether or embracing it with some rules.

This site has collected a host of links to the social media policies of various companies to help you find the one for your company, from the BBC to IBM to the Harvard Business School.

If only the BBC had ads

Just kidding, but this is pretty good, if a little offensive British. The backstory is that the Top Gear presenters were asked to make an ad for the VW Scirocco, which seems like a good deal, unless you are German and don't have a sense of humour. What? Impossible.

Sorry if this is old hat, I just saw it on media blog mosthorriblethingever.com (like the previous post).

BBC next in firing line after sending 400 people to Glastonbury

After the MPs expenses scandal, the BBC will be next to have its finances outed in the press. This story about the 400 staff it sent to this year's Glastonbury (surely the point of a music festival is to actually be there) is just the beginning, expect much, much more.

BBC 5Live embraces the age of the layman

I noticed listening recently to Nicky Campbell's morning phone-ins on 5Live that he now uses not one but two callers to discuss the issues of the day. This produces a much more credible and balanced effect that when the host simply chats to individuals on a one-on-one basis.

I can't help but think this is driven by the new media's more open attitude to its consumers, particularly the power of the comments sections of blogs to add information and put forward alternative points of view.