Er, that's it?

Amazing. The BBC has put iPlayer on the iPhone/iPod touch and, for me, it's transformational. Crystal clear, good sound, lovely. Kudos all round. Not quite as useable as YouTube, in that it doesn't have its own menu-screen app yet, but with the SDK in the pipeline that can't be far away. For me, it's more important than iPlayer on a desktop. It's the New Broadcast Paradigm, people - WiFi plus portable device. Let a million TV sets bloom.

Question: if the BBC does not carry advertising, and if it not judged (externally at least) on users and page views but on influence, why are so many of its RSS feeds summary-only? Take Evan Davis' excellent economics blog, for instance. Why can't that be a full-text feed?

Thinking of launching what we used to call an "online community" and what we now call a "sticky Web 2.0 social media experience"? Then read Alan Jones on moderating community and social media. In fact, read it, print it out and laminate it for use when talking to managers and lawyers who may not understand risk:

Will moderating content too much kill the pavlovian reward of "post-reply-reply-to-reply-repeat" that makes a social network sticky and compelling?

Why does that matter? Because woven tight into the good stuff, growing like weeds, you'll always find weird stuff also growing on your social networks, no matter what original purpose it has. Show me a user-generated content database, I'll show you some weird shit in there, every time.

Further, the line between "weird" and "bad" is wiggly, broad and fuzzy, with transparency set at >10% and sporting extra-aliased edges. Further, "bad" comes in a wide variety of flavours, including "bad for business", "bad for conservative families" and "bad for the legal budget line".

Alan comes down on the side of less moderation and more weirdness, which is pretty much what I'd expect from him, in the nicest possible way. And I think this story should be read alongside the slightly odd news that BBC News is making its "UGC hub" work "24/7", though interestingly they seem to be more interested in people as case studies rather than contributors.