Comments on: Highfield’s Successor: Who’s In The Frame For BBC’s Top Digital Job? http://paidcontent.org/2008/04/15/419-bbc-candidates-whos-in-the-frame-for-highfields-top-job/ The economics of digital content Sun, 19 May 2013 22:28:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Anonymous Coward http://paidcontent.org/2008/04/15/419-bbc-candidates-whos-in-the-frame-for-highfields-top-job/#comment-59456 Wed, 16 Apr 2008 18:03:02 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2008/04/15/419-bbc-candidates-whos-in-the-frame-for-highfields-top-job/#comment-59456 Huggers was brought in specifically to succeed Highfield. I'm pretty sure this very column sated as much at the time. There's absolutely no speculation required…

]]> By: Kosso http://paidcontent.org/2008/04/15/419-bbc-candidates-whos-in-the-frame-for-highfields-top-job/#comment-59455 Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:38:28 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2008/04/15/419-bbc-candidates-whos-in-the-frame-for-highfields-top-job/#comment-59455 Nic Newman can NOT 'get down and dirty with code'

Sorry, but he's a self-confessed non-techie who had a very clever man at his side feeding him the info as and when required.
Extremely bad management skills too – telling people to 'piss and and find something else' if anyone tried to get the employment contracts they deserved.

Tom's a nice guy and level-headed. But I don't think he's right either.

Out of those people you list : Tony Ageh

Kosso
[ex-BBC News Interactive Creative R&D;: I suggested RSS *and* podcasts to the BBC. Ideas which were shot down when first suggested]
[Creator of the BBC's first ever Flash-based video console too ;p]

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