Lol. This has made me laugh. Excellent idea. I would have used this when listening to radio 1 yesterday (was it Greg Norman talking to Alex Krotowski and calling Second Life a game! I was ranting at the radio wondering why Alex didnt correct him in that its not technically a game as per the other stuff they were discussing. You can't win anything in SL and similar genre VW aremorphing into serious business/collaboration tools.
So yes Cow pat away. Love this idea. Soulla 2009/9/30 J.P.Knight <j.p.kni...@lboro.ac.uk> > Whilst working back from grabbing some sarnies with some collegues this > lunchtime we were discussing politicans being interviewed on Radio 4 and how > evasive and downright dodgy some of them (most of them? :-) ) sound. One of > my chums then hit on a cunning wheeze for providing feedback to radio > listeners that are using DAB radios or the web which we all rather liked. > > The basic idea was to take short messages from listeners (SMS, tweets, > button clicks on the web, etc) when they thought that someone on air was > spouting nonsense/evading the question/answering questions he'd rather he'd > been asked/etc (we used a more bovine effluent related term during our > discussion but I doubt that would be acceptable on the BBC! ;-) ). > > These could then be turned into a real time indication of listener > dissatisfaction with the answers being given, and maybe displayed on the > displays of the DAB radios, as well as on the Radio 4 website. Indeed the > web site could have graphs of "bovine effulent" levels during the day, week, > month, year, etc so that you could spot when there'd been a particularly > heavy burst of nonsense being spouted by someone on the wireless, possibly > with hyperlinks to iplayer programmes so that you could nip back in time and > hear what caused the listeners to cry foul. > - > 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/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ > -- Soulla Stylianou RL Client Director DADEN LIMITED e: soulla.stylia...@daden.co.uk t: 0121 698 8520 m: 07814145167 w: www.daden.co.uk http://twitter.com/SoullaStylianou sl: http://www.slurl.com/secondlife/daden%20prime/160/184/26 sl IM: ImmortalitySou Ballinger Daden Limited is an Information 2.0 Consultancy and full service Virtual Worlds/Second Life development agency. Daden are a Linden Lab Gold Solution Provider for Second Life.