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'Curating' The Secret History of Social Networking
Steve Bowbrick
Head of Interactive, Radio 3
Curation is going to be one of the big words of 2011. Everyone's at it. My Saturday newspaper offers to 'curate my weekend', chefs 'curate lunch'. Every time we share a link or a music track with friends we're 'curating the web'. Real curators, of course, will object to such imprecise use of the...
King James Bible podcasts
Paul Sargeant
How much of King James Bible Day did you catch on Sunday? It was hard to miss with 28 readings across a single day and a star-studded cast: Samuel West, Emilia Fox, Hugh Bonneville, Toby Stephens, Henry Goodman, Niamh Cusack, Rory Kinnear, Miriam Margolyes and others. There were some interest...
Some changes to the Radio 4 web site
Leigh Aspin
Editor's note. In this blog post, Radio 4's Interactive Editor explains how important the views of web site users have been to the redesign of the site. Please take a minute to leave a comment here and tell us what you think of the changes to the Radio 4 site - SB. It's now over a year since we...
Radio 4 amongst the students
Steve Bowbrick
Head of Interactive, Radio 3
The Bedford campus of the University of Bedfordshire is home to a small advance guard of Radio 4 programmes for the next two days. The goal, as explained by Mark Damazer here, is to bring to the attention of the nation's students the range of Radio 4 programmes they'd be sure to like. I'll be in...
Twitter fever fails to grip Humphrys
Steve Bowbrick
Head of Interactive, Radio 3
A fine kerfuffle (if that's the right word) on Today this morning about - you guessed it - Twitter. Read Alex Hudson's excellent feature about it on the Today site. And what do you think? Are there things that you should be allowed to dismiss out of hand? Is social media phenonemon Twitter one o...
Facebook on Radio 4
Steve Bowbrick
Head of Interactive, Radio 3
Book of the Week on Radio 4 this week is Ben Mezrich's Accidental Billionaires, a book whose subtitle (at least in the American edition) is: The Founding of Facebook: A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal. Perfect Radio 4 material then. As you'd expect, the book has its own Facebook profile....
