Archive for the ‘BBC’ Category
Saturday, March 24th, 2007
One of the major challenges for mentors on this week’s BBC Innovation Lab has been to get some of the participants to ‘kill their darlings’.
The ten teams for the Lab were selected on the basis of proposals submitted in response to a set of briefs from the BBC. Two people ...
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Wednesday, March 7th, 2007
This year’s sequence of BBC Innovation Labs started at Forest Hills Hotel, north of Glasgow, last week - 4 days after the end of Crossover in Adelaide. From temperatures of over 40 in the Australian summer to three inches of snow in the Trossachs.
The Scottish Lab included teams who were ...
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Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007
I've just been invited to participate in Content 360 at Milia this year.
Reed Midem have persevered with the attempt to establish an international market for interactive media for well over a decade. I think I first went there in 1995 . It never really became a focus for serious deal-making ...
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Saturday, December 9th, 2006
An article in this week's 'Private Eye' satirises a speech by Jana Bennett, BBC Director of Vision (formerly Director of Television) as new media jargon. The offending quotation is:
"We need some big projects that really stand out against the media skyline...the ones you can't miss and can't do ...
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Sunday, December 3rd, 2006
A couple of accounts of the Lab process. One was sent by David Kousemaker, one of the winners from last week's Mediaguild Lab. The other is about the last of the BBC Innovation Labs, a post by Rik Abel from Headshift I've only just come across.
This is what David found ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Friday, October 27th, 2006
At the first of the BBC Innovation Lab Launch Days in Brighton yesterday, we used a version of 'appreciative inquiry' to explore factors which contribute to innovation. I did the same thing in collaboration with the philosopher Humberto Schwab at the workshop for the opening of the Media Guild last ...
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