The BBC News website likes to host little video clips of various news stories, and flags these up on its front page to lure news 'consumers' (God I hate that word) towards them. Which is all very well if you've got an up to the minute computer with all the relevant bits n bobs to play VoD (video on demand, for you Luddites out there). What's becoming deeply irritating, though, is that the Beeb doesn't seem to have thought about those website users who either don't have the capacity to use VoD, or who might prefer to 'consume' their 'news content' (yuk) in written form, for whatever reason (like, oh I don't know, say being at work and therefore not being able to bung on the headphones and listen to a videocast, perhaps).
The result of this is that I can't find out about the current eruption of Mt Etna because there's no actual news story about it on the BBC News website (at time of writing) - just a shitty piece of VoD.
Given all the Birtspeak about digital divides and consumer accessibility across 'platforms', you'd have thought someone would have realised this by now.
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This enrages me as well; surely the vast majority of people who access news websites during the day (main peak of traffic: between 9-5) are doing so from work. The majority of those will be doing so 'illicitly'. Text and photos, people!
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