Radio at the Edge

I'm going to be talking at Radio on the Brink, sorry Radio at the Edge (urgh - no deep linking on that site) on Thursday. It's a Radio Academy event discussing the issues facing the radio industry in the future. My talk is entitled "Radio for the Facebook generation" and I'm going to be looking at consumers and the audience, social networking for radio and a new radio we're building. Right now I'm finishing off writing the presentation and checking the timing - all looking good so far.

Say hi if you're going.

BBC Radio Labs

At work I've just pressed the button to publish the first post on our new blog - BBC Radio Labs.



It's intended as a place where my department, BBC Audio & Music Interactive, can write about what we're working on, look at developments in music and radio in the digital world and show some of our prototypes for new sites and services. The last one is particularly exciting as it finally will give a proper BBC home for the prototypes and betas that my R&D team develops.

The blog is aimed at developers, designers, students, radio and music fans and anyone else who is in interested in our work and I've signed up a number of people in the team to write on it (see the first post for more details). What I really want is for the new blog to be eclectic - we'll be writing about what we do, how we do it, prototypes, betas, technology, design, innovation and all the new things that are happening online with digital music and radio. But one thing it isn't going to be is just another product announcement blog. I hope you like it.