Found this on Flickr.
Wednesday, December 21, 2005
BBC Annotatable Audio project
I’ve been meaning to post about this for a few weeks now – Tom Coates of plasticbag fame has been blogging about the BBC annotatable audio project. The widget being produced will allow text comments to be added to audio, so if say you were listening to an item on the Today programme you could comment on that article and people using the BBC radio player can then see your comment. Other stuff can also be attached to each segment such as transcripts, contact details etc.
Sounds like a great idea, digital TV has transformed how information can be delivered about a particular TV show and radio would really benefit from something similar.
Honest movie reviews?
Listening to XFM’s movie programme on Sunday afternoon it really hit me how much better the BBC does film reviews than commercial radio.
Paul Anderson does an admiral job for XFM but never really gets to heart of what makes a good film review – if a film is rubbish saying that it’s rubbish. The temptation for film reviewers to always be positive about the crap Hollywood puts out must be huge, after all, most new films are pretty awful. I’m sure managers in commercial radio don’t want their show to be too negative, after all commercial radio is a ‘happy’ place. Broadcasting a movie review programme that is pretty much negative most of the time wouldn’t fit with a stations image.
Contrast this with Mark Kermode on 5 Live – I’ve talked before about how much I love listening to his reviews. He always says if a film is a turkey, most weeks he struggles to say almost anything positive which is really refreshing. Now if I go and see a film I really know what I’m letting myself in for.