Archive for April, 2011
Tweeknotes 18th – 24th April
Here’s this week’s Tweekntotes: A prank call to the Apple store asking about twitter. AV explained through the medium of X Factor. Ambrose pointed to an interesting article on how Amazon Marketplace companies price their stock. Michael from Radioplayer’s produced a Wordle of the most searched for terms on the service. Lloydie posted a great [...]
Nature of Retweets
One of the great things about Twitter is it’s asynchronous. You don’t have to follow all the people who follow you. Indeed, you seek out people you want to follow – be it for entertainment, information, your friends, people smarter than you, people you want to spy on – it’s all opt in. The downside of [...]
Bauer’s New Radioplayer Players
I wrote a little piece about Bauer’s pop-up players a little while ago. It wasn’t very positive. They’ve since addressed a few of my issues, but it’s still not great. However, they’ve just put live the Radioplayer version of all their station players – and they’re really good! You may remember that Bauer are in [...]
Tweeknotes 11th – 17th April
Some more links and things extracted from my tweets this week: Alan Greenspun explains, in clear terms, America’s budget deficit I thought it was slightly odd that Radio Aire, who must be facing unprecedented competition in their market, would choose to celebrate their 30th birthday with loads of early 90s pop stars like Chesney Hawkes [...]
Exciting Side Project
Today we put live a new side project – The Music Machine. It’s not my idea though. I’ve worked with Sammy Jacob (XFM and NME Radio founder) on a few projects over the last few years and recently he raised the idea of trying out a pay-radio service. Working with Chris Gould (at All in [...]
Tweeknotes 4th – 10th April
Busy week, this week. Lots of Radioplayer stuff, popping Fun Kids and 6 x Traffic Radio’s on there as well as prepping some more stations too. I’ve also been working on a fun side-project that I can talk about tomorrow! Anyway, here’s some good links from the week: A piece from PBS about how a [...]
Bauer’s Local Radio Players
The easiest things to do on blogs are moan. I genuinely try to concentrate on good stuff to talk about here because relentless negativity doesn’t really help anyone. However, occasionally I come across something that I feel if I don’t talk about, I would be underserving you, the dear mattdeegan.com reader. So, Radio Today caught [...]
New 6Music TV Advert
What do we think?
Tweeknotes 28th March – 3rd April
A couple of things that caught my attention this week: The Guardian deciding that if Radiohead was releasing a newspaper, that they would cover Creep. The BBC’s animation explaining the Radioplayer Radioplayer was a busy part of my week. There was a great launch event in London with a real positive feeling in the room. [...]
Keep Thinking Differently
I’ve had a really good response to my blog post about BBC Local Radio. Lots of people have sent me their own submissions to DQF and many of them positively engaged with trying to re-think the work that they do. Some of the responses I got to the post were questioning why BBC Local Radio [...]