Talking shop

Still no real news of the future of the BBC's struggling Digital Media Initiative, in the latest full minutes from the BBC Trust. Trustee Antony Fry, heading swiftly for the calmer waters of Premier League, said his finance committee had received "an update" and that "further discussions on the project would take place in the coming months".  After he's gone, then.

Elsewhere, the Trust approved the BBC's budget plans for next year, without much in the way of transparency in the minutes; and gave the nod to continuing planning for Project Barcelona, by which the BBC wishes to sell its archives to you, the licence payer, as downloads. Lord Patten, 69, apparently likes the relaunch of BBC World.

The meeting thanked Tim Davie for his interregnum as DG; process freaks like me might have asked what's happened to the February minutes of the BBC Executive, before letting him go...