Nice idea for a side-by-side information system for Five Live. I've said before that it would be great for the BBC's live news services (so, Radio 4, Five Live, News24 and BBC World) to constantly broadcast a live news.bbc.co.uk unique identifier alongside each story. If this was available on the web, you could have a "more on this story I'm listening to/viewing" button on the website that would take you directly to the news.bbc.co.uk page about the story that is currently airing on the channel. On digital TV it would be very handy for the current story to made available IN FULL as part of the OpenTV (satellite) or MHEG5 (Freeview) service. These "red button" services have very, very cut down versions of the stories on their services (to save bandwidth and increase response times), but it wouldn't break the bitstream bank for the full text of one story to be accessible in full by pressing the red button. Also, for PC reception of Freeview or DSat, a current-story-identifier would - software permitting -allow XP Media Center, Vista Ultimate etc to link to a relevant web page. My Lobster Phone/DAB radio can link to general information when I'm listening to Five Live or Radio 4 by having links to a WAP page, but again it would be nice if there was the ability to link to the full text of the "live" story on there. If we can get the ID of a story broadcast it would be a reasonably simple matter to attach other services to it, so you could have "chat rooms" or "discussion boards" around stories, rather than around channels. It would be, IMHO, great to have Five Live listeners discussing individual STORIES with Radio 4 listeners and BBC World and BBC News 24 as they happen. I'm not sure about the "Be the Editor" ideas because this will allow interest groups to "capture" the editorial process - just ask Radio 4's Today program about the Bill of the Year. Brian Butterworth HYPERLINK "http://www.ukfree.tv/"www.ukfree.tv Email: HYPERLINK "mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]"[EMAIL PROTECTED] _____
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matthew Cashmore Sent: 11 January 2007 12:06 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: [backstage] Five Live Partnership - get your idea commissioned. 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>> -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.16.9/622 - Release Date: 10/01/2007 14:52 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.16.9/622 - Release Date: 10/01/2007 14:52
