http://nick.piggott.name/blog Nick Piggott's blog about the intersection between new media and radio Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:55:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Robert Scoble"][/caption] Inspiration and insight can come from all kinds of places. Nestled in my Google Reader feeds this morning was a blog from Robert Scoble  called "The Chat/Forum Problem (& an apology to @TechnoSailor)". Go and have a read - I'll grab a coffee while you ... http://nick.piggott.name/blog/2009/11/02/the-future-of-radio-is-curation/ Sometimes it's really hard to make a business case for doing things that involve cutting edge technology and radio. There are many variables, estimations and outcomes, and that makes deciding if something is a good return on investment quite subjective and debatable. What's it worth to hold onto a client who ... http://nick.piggott.name/blog/2009/10/27/what-value-knowledge/ My timing is obviously improving. I ended my last post questioning the risks of broadcasting meta-data over the air, and how it might be used to create websites and activities outside the control of the broadcaster. I really do need to thank the good guys at Absolute Radio for launching their ... http://nick.piggott.name/blog/2009/10/24/is-the-money-in-the-meta-data/ Just when you think there's nothing interesting you can blog about, Apple come and chuck fresh meat to the wolves. Of course, everyone's excited about Apple including radio in one of their devices for the first time. That's clearly good news. It would be amazing news if it was a DAB ... http://nick.piggott.name/blog/2009/09/10/apple-ipod-nano-now-with-fm-and-tagging-is-that-good/ [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="WiMax - is it really the platform for radio?"][/caption] Two unconnected but yet intertwined events have catalysed this posting. One was James Cridland writing, in The Future Of Radio - The Best Thing that: The best thing that could happen to radio is that we stop talking about ... http://nick.piggott.name/blog/2009/07/29/were-not-done-talking-about-platforms-for-radio/ [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="대한민국 터치다운 - McCarran Int'l Airport, NV USA (CC) gTarded at Flickr "][/caption] I'm enjoying Malcolm Gladwell's latest book, Outliers. In the same vein as Freakonomics, it looks deeper into why certain people or events deviate from the norm, become exceptional - why they are "outliers". It's ... http://nick.piggott.name/blog/2009/07/15/korean-air-crashes-and-french-digital-radio/ So here's my brief contribution to the flurry of analysis of Lord Carter's Digital Britain report. The biggest news is that we get a target date for switchoff (sorry, "Digital Upgrade"). 2015 is the year we should be flipping the OFF switch on (almost all) analogue radio, and offering universal coverage ... http://nick.piggott.name/blog/2009/06/16/digital-britain-has-arrived-or-is-at-least-en-route/ [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="463" caption="95.8 Capital FM iPhone Application"][/caption] My joining GWR Group coincided with an explosion in the use of music research to decide what songs got played, and how often. The data drove a new format - the "Better Music Mix" that rolled across Southern England in the mid ... http://nick.piggott.name/blog/2009/05/13/the-iphone-helps-revolutionise-dab-digital-radio/ A number of articles and blogs have drawn attention to the ability of Google searches to provide early indications of change. Google announced that they were providing information on people searching for infomation about 'flu to map outbreaks, and this week there was an article in The Economist about how ... http://nick.piggott.name/blog/2009/04/18/googling-the-future-of-digital-radio/ [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="BBC Radio Holby co-shares with Classic Gold - from a Casualty shoot in 1999"][/caption] John Myers' report "An Independent Review of the Rules Governing Local Content on Commercial Radio" was published yesterday, and it's well worth committing time to read through in detail. If you're outside the UK ... http://nick.piggott.name/blog/2009/04/17/the-myers-report-and-dab-digital-radio/ It's been a difficult time for radio lately, and for digital radio doubly so. Since Fru Hazlitt made her dramatic announcements on 11th February 2008 (the "2/11" for Digital Radio), it's been a rollercoaster ride, consisting mainly of the scary bit of going down very fast and being apparently about ... http://nick.piggott.name/blog/2009/04/08/digital-radio-changes-and-causes-change/ Someone was very nice to me this week, and said they like the occasional dip into the world of aviation that I indulge in. So here's a short one, linked to last week's blog on a major international airline brand that appears to have snafu'ed their engagement in social networking. No ... http://nick.piggott.name/blog/2009/03/02/theres-getting-it-wrong-and-theres-being-downright-obnoxious/ Google's exit from the radio arena this week wasn't necessarily a huge surprise. It was a bold move to try and port their successful advertising business from the Internet to radio, and to do so without primary control over the inventory they were selling and the environment they were selling ... http://nick.piggott.name/blog/2009/02/23/google-exits-radio-%e2%80%93-is-that-good-or-bad/ As you might expect, there are a few places on the Interwebs where people who fly now and then meet up to discuss the important things in life; destinations; routes; fuel surcharges, and how to maintain status with as few flights as possible. But it's interesting to see how the airlines ... http://nick.piggott.name/blog/2009/02/11/mis-engaging-with-social-networks/ In response to the publication of the interim Digital Britain report, I sent out this twitter That prompted a small flurry of @nickpiggott replies asking me "so, what does doing it properly mean"? Let's start by reminding ourselves that we have the most successful implementation of free-to-air digital radio anywhere in the ... http://nick.piggott.name/blog/2009/01/29/dab-doing-it-properly/