Archive for April, 2008
Radio Reborn
moderating a panel tomorrow at “radio reborn” - a media guardian conference in London. Keynote panel has the potential to be interesting, with my ultimate boss (for now) Jenny Abramsky, Fru Hazlitt (GCAP for now) and Phillipe generali from RCS. just a shame there wasn’t someone from Global or Bauer there too… Will update tomorrow on how it all went.
Add comment April 27, 2008
visual radio
BBC radio Ulster has an engaging series of programmes called “Days Like This“, where people tell their stories about days that have made an impact in some lasting way. The Big Match below is an incredible piece of radio which was then beautifully animated. Not the sort of thing you can do for every programme, but the visualisation makes the story much more accessible to a video obsessed generation.
Still on the football theme, “Pottermouth” is the result of of an old Stoke City fan ringing up the station and leaving a message with his battle cry, a poem to rouse the team on to victory. BBC radio Stoke picked it up, added a slideshow to it and put it up on youtube. very simple but really worth checking out. The battle cry got played out before one of the recent games at the Brittania stadium.
Add comment April 26, 2008
wifi radio
Cambridge Consultants, the people who brought us hand held radar that can see through walls are bringing out a fun device to show off their low cost wifi radio reference platform.
The Iona Cube only plays 4 radio stations, which is about right for the number of stations people actually regularly listen to. You select station by turning the cube onto one of it’s sides (the last side is to switch it off). there’s also no volume switch, just turning the cube to the right or left will have the desired effect.
Must have a word with them about that radio 1 logo…
Add comment April 21, 2008
Geekyoto 2008
Ben Hammersley and Mark Simpkins hosting a day conference on technology and the environment in London on May 17th. Should be interesting, Gavin Starks is there to talk about his AMEE project
Add comment April 20, 2008
street furniture
This Euston Station luggage trolley is a bit lost….
this is my first zonetag pic. It uses the geolocation info from the n95 GPS. main problem is that the GPS takes over a minute to get a lock on the satellite and is very power hungry. Also doesn’t work that well unless you are outside.
It may turn out that GPS is overkill for easy geo location. cell or even wifi trig are ample for most situations. (check out google mobile maps )
I’m looking forward to seeing what fireeagle can do, it’s a development of zonetag in private alpha right now, just waiting for my invite…..
1 comment April 19, 2008
