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  • Steampunk radio on the Victorian Internet

    A remarkable story about Victorian media innovation — Radio is changing. The first digital radio platform – DAB – is in danger of being eclipsed before most of us have…

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  • Pick of the Week all at once II

    Last week I chopped up Pick of the Week and played it back all at once. I’ve tried it again with this week’s programme: selected by Hardeep Singh Kohli. Once…

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  • Radio 4’s Pick of the Week – all at once

    A week ago I speculated here about what listeners might do with BBC radio content if allowed to play with it. I came up with something quite linear – a…

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  • Allowing listeners to curate BBC radio

    It was a quite brilliant weekend for BBC radio – so much good stuff that really stood out. Loads of radio that wasn’t just gripping, interesting, entertaining but was also…

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  • Five radio station iPhone apps

    Dandelion Radio Update, 30 June. Paul Webster, on Twitter, prompted me to stick a sixth radio iPhone app in here at the top of the post: a lovely app from…

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  • From the NASA archive

    I love this 1965 image from NASA’s archive. The caption reads: Gemini Water Egress Training. Astronauts John Young and Gus Grissom are pictured during water egress training in a large…

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  • Is that it for the PC?

    The latest Mac OS is the first that can only be bought from an app store, from a tightly-integrated, locked-down, official source. I reckon that’s pretty much it for the…

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  • David Hepworth – a Q&A about curating music

    It has been my privilege, over the last few years, to write a few pieces for Britain’s best music (and arts and movies and stuff) magazine The Word – including,…

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  • A blocky morality tale

    UPDATE: the video referenced is sadly no longer online. The story goes like this: my twelve year-old son Oliver builds a spectacular tower in Minecraft (Olly is a Minecraft ninja…

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  • Hacks hack

    Extraordinary movement in the phone hacking case today – and presumably only the beginning of a torrent of admissions and concessions. This is good. But there’s something about the indignation…

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