bbc ican beta version: more or less it is a channel for locals news, created by users to bring in their topics that wont make it into a broadcast.

Its all about the tail was one of our mantras during the early stages of iCan. When we were talking with people from News and other involved divisions in the BBC, we used to use the power-law curve so beloved of the blogosphere to give an analogy of the connection between the 6/7 major national or global stories that feature on the 30-minute evening news programme and the 100s or 1000s of personal, local issues that people could feel empowered to act on. (many to many)