Ofcom have issued a consultation paper asking for views on whether it should set up a Public Sector Publisher to act as a kind of Web 2.0 platform – complete with P2P functionality – to provide quality content not yet available. They argue that the new service would contract out to media companies to provide the content, which begs the question a bit about why such content is not already being provided. And, given the row every time the BBC tries to develop deeper, more useful content, you would have thought it was a non-starter…

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