Random short notes … here’s a link to the reinventing radio presentation.
10 hours of listener’s choice radio broadcast by the BBC:
Suggestions came in via SMS: 150K txt msgs, from over 100K users, resulting in 131 songs played over 10 hours.
Tom Coates: his area of BBC R&D looks out ~18 months … the plausible now.
Lessons:
Bandwidth is an issue.
Retaining the voice of the individual is important and aggregating makes that hard.
Their approach is not lottery style; each contributor should feel they received value.
The hosting org should get value as well.
Tools:
SMS infrastructure
BBC staff as testers
national radio network
Results:
Bookmarkable songs via phone.
(interesting. someone in front of me is doing a visual chat w/a remote party, who is now virtually attending etech.)
(more than this was covered; see other reports on reinventing radio for additional reports.)