Design Science DJ, continues as chat

I am concentrating now on the Wild Show and slipping in conversation about design, design science. I find radio is very fluid, even if conversation is a bit vague. JD continues to resist the idea that radio presentation is a science. But I now have a copy of the book on "the will to form" by Gibson Burrell and it is mostly about design. Styles of organising and architecture also, but design is the common theme I think. Within the design envelope you can wander about. It may be intended for understanding and analysis. but also in practice designers can move within it. Last week guest Clive Chilvers described how he moved between sensibility and rationality in Tweeting, depending on whether he is tweeting for himself or an organisation he represents or somewhere in between. We intend to label the studio walls and measure distances, once the book is better understood.

Clive promotes TED Exeter and we thought about another 3D diagram with an axis for Technology - Science, and Art - Design. We suggested Entertainment - Education but apparently TED Ed is another project.  Still this sort of thing works ok as radip chat till we get a better model.

Phonic FM and the Wild Show are mostly about music. Talk has to be an occasional element. 

The links are to a Soundcloud copy of this week and a YouTube clip from a year ago. 

Hello Jeff Jarvis, re reposts Guardian and Anti-Americanism

Not sure Jeff Jarvis reads all the comments on Buzzmachine. This post is a way to collect some stuff together. He will be in the UK next month for a Guardian event. This may be a chance to raise some issues and he probably will have something to say. 

First, thanks for the link and demo on Repost. This looks very useful and starts with level access for all forms of blog.

Not sure how to take the idea that the Guardian has some sort of politics that is advocated in journalism while most USA journalism is completely objective. There was more about "anti-Americanism" a while ago. I realise there is a need for some defense if you travel a lot but there are a variety of views. 

It seems to be a different legal situation for the USA to spy on people, depending on whetherthey are assumed to be outside the USA. Of course the UK has pretty much the same policy. Online this makes not a lot of sense. 

But the main thing is to work through the time warp in Guardian reporting on media. I am mostly concerned with reporting in print, still the Guardian base. There may be Guardian blogs somewhere that balance this out but I tend to find other ones.  

I think the Monday to Friday print editions could be planned to vanish sometime soon. There is very little resource for the specialist sections on Media and Education. Jeff Jarvis used to be a regular but this was a while ago. There is still a budget for Saturday, including the Review. See my previous post for more on this.

Briefly, Steven Poole regards Jeff Jarvis as a "cyber-hustler" , ( alongside Clay Shirky by the way ) There is still a tone in the print Guardian that continues the concerns of print journalists as if the transfer of some Buzzmachine to Guardian Media pages had never happened.

And another thing.  A large chunk of a blog post from Clay Shirky was printed at the time Futurelearn ( a UK MOOC ) was announced. Since then there has only been negative comment on the MOOC, mostly from academics who prefer things as they are. Comment on how to teach journalism also welcome. 

I still buy the print Guardian on Monday and Tuesday. But I find most new info on Buzzmachine. 

tips from chromebook tests

Today I have been trying out my new Chromebook. Met JD for a planning session re Wild Show tomorrow. We walked as far as the innovation centre. But photos are mostly lost. "Camera" saves nothing. This is a cloud thing. Have now found webcamtoy. This will save but you have to specify normal style. 

Video seems to be similar. Record for YouTube works, no other way to save. So expect lots of stuff that maybe should not be public. 

Styles of organising, fairness for Radio 1

So far this week no thunderstorms, But it has yet to get hot. Walks continue, yesterday to the university where I collected a copy of Styles of Organising by Gibson Burrell. Not out officially till next week I think so maybe more of a review later. 

So far have found a case study about "sensibility" as in Radio 1 dumping Dave Lee Travis and other djs thought to be older than the target audience. This is explained as if there was no rationality in BBC policy. But I think it could be just decided by stats and demographics. If the Radio 1 audience is mostly over 45 then it is time for a cull. 

There is no mention of Chris Moyles or recent falling numbers. Time for an update or maybe continues on blog somewhere. Links please. 

Radio, Mark Coles, some context

I have heard this week on media futures on the television, now checking the mp3. 

Find the website - http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/docarchive  then you need 18 June. 

More later on Phonic FM about how this fits with what else I'm aware of. We have a plan for the next couple of weeks but I hope to get round to this on a Thursday morning before the Mark Coles series ends. 

There are a couple of things he is not mentioning. He used to present an hour of World Music. This ended I think because BBC World Service could not afford the rights payments. Then he was one of the presenters for the Strand. This also ended. Maybe it cost too much to have arts specially for a global audience. Now there is a weekly Arts Hour made up of clips from other BBC shows and a few guest stations. ( By the way Nikki Bedi could offer more comment. She identifies the issues but then expects the audience to do all the tweeting, just my impression) 

So will radio become a sampler for other content to be checked out in detail online? 

and how to pay the rights costs for listen again through social media? Of course musicians should get paid. But they may welcome radio promotion as well ( radio in a wide sense ) . So how will this work? 

to be continued