Dear Matt: Seems very exiting! How will the ideas get commissioned? will there be an Open Call for Projects?
All the best, José-Carlos on 11/1/07 7:05, Matthew Cashmore at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Over the next couple of months backstage and Five Live are teaming up to > try and produce some amazing ideas and prototypes. The idea is to place > old media and new media right next to one another, compress, mix, add a > spoonful of sugar and see what happens. > > Five Live produces some amazing content, content that lends itself > perfectly to being mixed and mashed with a whole hosts of feeds we > already provide, and several which we'll be announcing for the first > time with this project. > > We're also going to pull together feeds from other providers (such as > The Office of National Statistics) as well as some interesting feeds > based around speech recognition and pattern recognition. > > Brett Spencer is Five Live's Interactive Editor, these are his thoughts; > > Five Live is already the home of live news and sport. Five Live is THE > place for the listener to interact, respond and rant about news, current > affairs and issues important to them. But we still have lots to do. Five > Live has expanded across the multi-platform environment this year but we > want to do a lot more. > > With your help we would like to find a new way to see what our listeners > are thinking, what they are reacting to and how feel about news. What > else could they be seeing online while they listen live to the Radio > station? How could our radio station join up more effectively with other > parts of the web? How can we enable the listener to interact more > effectively with us and in turn more effectively with each other via > Five Live. > > We are encouraging people to "Be The Editor" on a Friday morning when > they get to pick the subjects on air. But how we gear our content to > what they are talking about with their friends and down the pub on a > daily or even hourly basis. > > Five Live makes extensive use of texts on air, but now so does everybody > else. How can we take that to the next stage? With your help we would > like to find a way to move our listeners and our on air content even > closer to our six million listeners. The potential is huge. Working with > you and BBC Backstage we would like to unlock it via an ongoing dialogue > around the possibilities available to us. > > At the end of the partnership backstage will fund the development of the > best prototype / idea and Five Live will then commission the prototype > to a live bbc.co.uk server. > > -------------------- > Matthew Cashmore > Development Producer > BBC Future Media & Technology > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 020 8008 3959 > 07711 913241 > > Broadcast Centre (BC4B5), Media Village, 201 Wood Lane, London, W12 7TS > <<Matthew Cashmore.vcf>> - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
