Simon Mackie was just passing the 10 year mark at BBC, and he decided to get the old BBC Science and Nature folks together. Great evening. We shared some old tales, and talked a little about what’s been happening since.
A new opportunity has arisen, and the BBC News Labs Team decided to look into it. The question posed was “How might we contextualise the Education Curriculum with News and Current Affairs?”
I’ve just spent 2 days at the Eurovision Academy looking at digital storytelling formats & challenges with a group of European Public Broadcasters. Fascinating.
Wendy has recently started a new business – “Story Boat” – that provides Performance Storytelling sessions for schools, Storytelling for adults, and Storytelling Workshops. She has just given the first sessions, which have gone down very well.
Hosted by Steve Herrmann, we ran an Audience Session for the “Future of News” project today. George Wright, Miles Bernie and I showed some prototypes.
I must recommend Kenwood House in North London – a wonderful place to spend an afternoon relaxing.
We just had an amazing trip to Disneyland Paris – great stuff. Here are some thoughts that other parents may find of interest: our own top 5 best and 5 worst things.
Today I popped to visit Niall Acott down Maidstone way, and we recorded the drums for one of his tunes – “Faith Forever” – at Ten21 Studios.
I am exceptionally pleased that today it was formally announced (at the BBC News monthly comms session) my position of Head of BBC News Labs.
The Bricklayers Arms is a good venue for an after-work troubleshooting and brainstorming workshop.
Had a great night at The Proms with Wend. The Royal Albert Hall is amazing – haven’t been there in a while.
Wendy read out one of her short stories at Karamel tonight for a Haringey Literature Live event – she had the place riveted. It was part of a theme “midsummer mayhem, heat and summer madness”.
Just met with my old primary school buddies James Magnus and Ian Guest. We spent an evening reminiscing, about Moira and many many others.
In a frantic year of News Labs’ activity & growth, I have neglected to cover off the great #newsHACK 2 event we held on May 1st & 2nd this year – about 8 weeks ago!
Great rehearsal today. Another new tune. Another set of jokes and laughs about our accelerating decrepitude.
I heard the office jargon “Black Swan” being used in a different context today – sort of “Great project ideas which are a bit away from strategy/roadmaps”.
Great day in Dock House today in BBC MediaCity with the Connected Studio team. Review, looking ahead, and some great drilling-into processes around innovation.
The BBC Academy College of Journalism just published this video about Rapid Prototyping with BBC News Labs.
Today we visited Aldo Faisal (creator of the Faisal Lab for Brain & Behaviour) again at Imperial College to go through Neurotechnology prototype opportunities.
Today I presented a BBC News Labs item at the BBC Online Briefing (Last one was in December 2013 – post here).
