Archive for November, 2006

A Lab in Amsterdam

Monday, November 27th, 2006

The run of launch events for the BBC Labs has been interrupted by a week in Amsterdam where I was directing an Innovation Lab for the Media Guild. The event is described by Esther Weltevrede here. A prize of €10,000 was on offer for the winning project pitched on the ...

Capturing the conversations

Thursday, November 16th, 2006

Today is Thursday, so it must be Oxford. It's the ninth of thirteen Launch Days for the 2007 Innovation Labs. The agenda for each day is pretty much the same: presentations by Matt Locke and one or more of the BBC commissioners followed by a structured discussion about innovation processes, current ...

Red Button = Red Herring?

Tuesday, November 7th, 2006

I'm organising an event about the future of interactive television for Zero-One on November 28th as part of their 'Creative Alchemy' programme. The idea is to look beyond the current broadcast model, suggesting that red-button interactive tv dead. It was a kind of the CDi of the noughties, a technological ...

Innovation Lab: London Launch Day

Thursday, November 2nd, 2006

The first of the two London launch events for this year's BBC Innovation Labs was held at Zero-One on Monday. Someone from Broadstuff has written a thoughtful post about the day here. It’s interesting that he describes the session as being a ‘lab’ rather than just an introduction to the ...

Innovation Labs: outcomes of 2006 series

Thursday, November 2nd, 2006

10 of the projects developed in the pilot series of Innovation Labs are still in development with the BBC. One in three (there were 30 participants in the 2006 programme) is a much higher rate than I'd anticipated. It remains to be seen how many of them will go through ...