[Air-l] Blogging on Dr Who

[Bruce Mason]

I'm surprised that they misused the term me as many of the writers -
including the writer of that episode - are members of a huge discussion
forum, "Outpost Gallifrey" and some of them are pretty blogsavvy. The show
has also deliberately spun off websites since its restart in 2005 and one of
the current characters - Martha Jones - has a blog on MySpace. I *think*
that it is an 'official'  blog though it's hard to be completely sure about
this as it doesn't have the BBC's usual disclaimer.

I'm guessing that the line of dialogue was a last minute addition and the
director messed up - he's fairly oldschool and may never have been near a PC
in his life.

Bruce

On 18/06/07, Derek McMillan <derekmcmillan1951 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
> I think I overtrump Mary. I first watched Dr Who when it was William
> Hartnell. I think the writers were just trying to be "down with the
> kids" by mentioning blogging rather than knowing what they were talking
> about :)
>
> I think blogging has been mentioned on Newsround a few times and of
> course the BBC news has mentioned it a few times - the US military
> trying to block soldiers from blogging for example because they were
> "using up valuable time" when they should be killing people and valuable
> bandwidth which would slow down their ability to kill people. Of course
> the fact some soldiers were not telling it like (the Pentagon thinks) it
> is was a factor too.
>
>
>
>
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