So, your real beef is with the /programmes site, not with QR codes? OK, cool.

You say it looks dull and half-arsed; well, there’s a reason it says ‘beta’ there, y’know. Give us a day or two, and we’ll add a lick of paint to it just for you. And enable the mobile views. And possibly fiddle with some extra feeds. Next job is to tidy up the rather messy data (not our fault) and then it’ll be much finer.

That’s a promise, even if you’re so rude about my team’s hard work! (grin)
Good. Bye then,

J

BTW – I love Paul Auster – although can’t for the life of me think about what you’re planning with 2D codes and his work. Although I’ve not read anything of his since The Music of Chance so praphs it’s something to do with his later works.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes

a page that is half assed on my laptop and looks a million times worse on a mobile is just laziness.

I don’t mind that the Beeb piss away my license fee on crap like Torchwood, but again and again they fail horribly online. I’m still sore after the iPlayer and now they’re being as half witted with QR. The Beeb should be way past the experimenting stage and showing us what you can do with a little time and money behind the tech.

I want the Beeb to do something spectacularly innovative with QR so that the rest of can watch, learn and push it forward.

Then again their TV making abilities peaked with Quatermass back in the 50′s so maybe I should cut them some slack

One thing people do need to recognise with QR codes in UK & probably the EU too is that it is REALLY new technology and people are really at an experimental stage with it. So try not deride companies for putting “dull or short sighted” destinations in their codes right now. The fact they are even testing this puts them head and shoulders above so many other companies and makes them “interesting & foresighted”.