Open Web, Today, radio and the Wild Show

I woke up this morning soon after six and found that the Web was the topic for Today. Tim Berners-Lee as guest editor asked for a report on how "Open" was working out in the UK. I found that this clip turns up on Audioboo through a Twitter search. The BBC site has not been updated, at least last time I looked. 

Rory Cellan-Jones

@ruskin147

I may have jumped back into this blogging task too quickly but was quite alarmed by the retired general suggesting that ideas from the 60s should be assumed to be unsound and then someone from the Publishers Association implying that the Web has only recently left the Wild West stage. I don't remember anything about Creative Commons as a legal approach, but then I did go back to sleep.

Listening to the clip on Audioboo I realise that a lot of this had been recorded earlier. The retired general and the rep for the publishers were not actually in the cellar bar somewhere near Whitehall. So maybe I should relax again and start the blog next week. But I will be making some notes.

It makes me realise that radio is getting more like the Web and less reliant on FM. I still don't know if there will be a live Wild Show next Thursday. The Phoenix may be shut. I don't know haow to load clips into the robot system. But we could start with the Facebook page and encourage our listeners to check there from about ten. Not sure I can rebroadcast clips from Today but I can post a link to Audioboo and then comment again five minutes later.

Obviuosly the show is about sound but I can slip in some comments about copyright and hard copy.

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The Mobile Holiday #MobHol

I am now in Lancaster for the rest of the week. Saturday was for checking out the city centre. There is not really a hight street, more of a one way system you can get inside of.

There should be a playlist on YouTube you can find with #MobHol

More later when more info is available. I have seen some reports in the Guardian that some retail sales are down because people are concentrating on mobile kit, often bought online. Not sure about this. Apple mentioned but I think there is more going on as well.

Now in relax mode except for some magazines. I am checking out print while turning the screen off more. TV may win out though.

Brands, Wolff Olins, Futurelearn

Coming to the end of the Futurelearn course on Brands. There is a theory in there about current web brands and how they operate. I can't find much outside the course except a report on Game Changers. This is mostly advice, not analysis or a history of brands in phases. Still a week to go and the course will be repeated.

Something about the brand as a platform, inviting involvement. But apparently there is less loyalty than with previous generations of brand. A lot depends on function, and advantages can be replaced. This sounds a lot like technology so I'm not sure why it is branding.

More later. Meanwhile looking for links on this outside the course. 

Apple , Adobe , mobility and learning

During an online discussion about mobile learning I tried to find some links for how Adobe and Apple have approached this. Not so much the products but how they encourage developers to get used to new ideas. I realise that in education the word learning can have specialised meanings. But it is also part of normal life, such as quality issues and/or new devices. Trouble is I can't find much of a record on how the changes around moving to  mobile were covered. So this is both something to come back to and a request for help with links or memory.

Meanwhile a couple of places to start from when looking for current resources

Apple

Adobe

The critique view seems to be that such companies can also be looked at as examples of how financial interests operate. I don't see why you can't look for case studies also. As the technology shifts there are going to be examples of how learning changes.

As mentioned in a previous post I don't think either Adobe or Apple will be at IPEX. So this blog will link online and that is another reason to go out of time occasionally. Imagining a week in March is just part of it.

@DalekPercy #nerdmareX Dalek interview continues via tweet

I will get back to IPEX and soforth but meanwhile the Phonic FM Christmas Party looms and the promotion is a chance to learn more about social media. I will have left Exeter for Lancaster by then but hope there will be some video or stills, even some sounds from the FM archive.

I have got somewhere with combining #tags and video. Twitter is not so well known as it might be. I think it is a minority of people who use it, but the #tag aspect works just as well for YouTube and Facebook. I still get lost on Facebook but can find a playlist with #13swma or #ZionARK . The aim is to use the playlist ahead of an event and then add something recorded live. Seems ok to assume the performers welcome recording but I have deleted later when there is something wrong on a specific clip. 

See previous post for more about #nerdmareX. There is more than one nerdmare, that's the problem.

I am going to try to find out if you can do an interview via Twitter. (By the way, I am doing quite well with Martha Reeves though I think she must be busy with travel. She is not keen on amateur video at her concerts because of the sound quality. I may try out just concentrating on the audience. It could be edited later with better stuff from somewhere else. Also she says a version of Come See About Me was recorded in Nashville in the 80s. I will later try to track down all the variations in the Holland Dozier Holland songbook. And where are they now, these Nashville musicians who cover Motown?)

Anyway, back to the Phonic FM Christmas Party. Martha Reeves and the Vandellas is sold out at the Phoenix Exeter. We have to move on.

At the Phonicon I was fortunate to get an interview with a Dalek in the Phoenix Art Gallery. The News from the Sun seemed to me to be pessimistic about the near future or even the present depending how far off you think communications tech is.

So my questions for Dalek Percy are

Do you plan to attend the Phonic FM Christmas Party?

Are you optimistic about the future?