I lead the R&D team for the BBC’s Audio & Music interactive team – we call ourselves BBC Radio Labs- and we try to take new technologies and internet trends and apply them to the BBC’s radio stations and music services. And I plan to write about some of these prototypes and experiments here – [...]
Categories: Audience, Community, Development
Tagged: BBC, prototypes, radiopop, social
Over the past 6 months or so, I’ve been involved in a research project with the BBC. We’ve been looking at what listeners and fans do online. The project investigated notions of interactivity; it looked at the ways in which fans of specific presenters express their fandom online; it examined the things that fans of [...]
Categories: Audience, Digital, Music, Strategy
Tagged: BBC, broadcast, online, orientation
Nothing kills a technology faster than a format war. HD-DVD, if you haven’t heard, is over before it has even begun. Nobody owns mini-disk players anymore. Consumer DAT is a joke. They’ve all gone the way of the Betamax video cassette: that is to say, there are some commercial uses for these devices, but they [...]