Trip to the Highlands by Overnight Train
Wendy and I just had an amazing break to the Highlands, taking the overnight train from Euston. Definitely recommend it.
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BBC News Labs at Mozfest 2013
On 25th – 27th October 2013, Jeremy Tarling, Ant Miller and I visited MozFest. We demonstrated Storyline Ivy – a prototype from #newsHACK The News Juicer & News Labs APIs demo And generally talked about BBC News Labs
The Guardian visit News Labs
Following #newsHACK on October 17th, Ceclia and Fielding from The Guardian office in New York, popped into BBC News Labs to have a chat about collaboration in the future.
Demos from #newsHACK – 27 Prototypes demo sessions & 7 Prize Winners
See the demos and prizewinners from the #newsHACK 2013 event. A few moments: The Mirror team’s “Rubix News” The Sky News team hack demo My former boss Anthony Sullivan (who was a judge, and is now at Guardian) giving an award to the Sky News team Me Introducing the judges Robin Pembrooke awarding “Best in … Continue reading Demos from #newsHACK – 27 Prototypes demo sessions & 7 Prize Winners
#newsHACK 2013 – BBC News Labs Hackathon with Connected Studio
On October 17th & 18th 2013, BBC News Labs in partnership with BBC Connected Studio, put on a 48 hour News Industry Hackathon called #newsHACK with 10 News Organisations and 6 Universities. BBC News Labs brought The Juicer, with our News Labs APIs, and a Storyline authoring tool called Storyliner by Outlandish.com for teams to … Continue reading #newsHACK 2013 – BBC News Labs Hackathon with Connected Studio
Winners of #newsHACK 2013
You can see the Winners of #newsHACK 2013 here on the newsHACK website. Winners of newsHACK 2013 1) Best in Show Award Presented by Robin Pembrooke (Head of News & Weather Products, BBC) Awarded to : The Perspectivator (Financial Times). 2) Best Live & Breaking News Experience Presented by Nic Newman (Independent Strategist, Trainer, … Continue reading Winners of #newsHACK 2013
The Juicer Team – for #newsHACK 2013
This is The Juicer team from #newsHACK 2013: Jeremy Tarling Paul Wilton Viktor Tron Harry Robbins Richard Lynton-Evans
Connected Studio demo for BBC Trust & Press
Today I ran a demo of BBC Connected Studio content for BBC Trust and the Press. I was demonstrating some new Connected Studio concepts, alongside BBC Blueroom, R&D immersive reality, and more.
Preparing for #newsHACK at Shoreditch Town Hall
Furiously working on getting the BBC #newsHACK to be as brilliant and useful as possible.
Working on Storyline in the lead up to #newsHACK
The team took some time out at the end of a hard day, at The Bree Louise, to further discuss the News Storyline Ontology, and how we might use complex Storylines at #newsHACK.
BBC News Labs – new corporate website
Thanks to the massively helpful Steve Alderton (connected studio), we’ve just launched the new BBC News Labs website, as part of our new Partnership with BBC Connected Studio. We are officially “Powered by BBC Connected Studio”.
Italy – Perugia – Summer Holidays
Great trip with some old friends. Amazing food, plenty of evenings in the balmy hill breeze.
Visit to San Francisco – Summer 2013
Just had a great trip to see the San Francisco side Shearers. Great time!!
BBC News Labs now based in the BBC R&D Central Lab, London
I am now very pleased to have moved the BBC News Labs main location to the BBC R&D Central Lab in Euston, London. We are based there now with our partners BBC Connected Studio, as well as UCL Computer Science, and the BBC R&D “Internet Research and Future Services” department.
BBC News Labs at ISKO 2013, UCL, London
Today Jeremy Tarling and I presented at ISKO 2013, in UCL. You can see the BBC News Labs at ISKO presentation here on Slideshare.
New Job: Innovation Manager, BBC News Labs
Today I am moving my attentions fulltime to BBC News Labs as the “innovation Manager”. B-Rilliant. We are (I am) teaming up with BBC Connected Studio to make to build the existing activities into a fully fledged innovation incubator. We are planning to “second” a % time from various News team members into the lab, … Continue reading New Job: Innovation Manager, BBC News Labs
New Partnership: BBC News Labs & BBC Connected Studio
I am very pleased that we have now made BBC News Labs part of the BBC Connected Studio.
BBC News Labs APIs at Yahoo! HackEurope 2013
On 29th April 2013, the we (BBC News Labs team) took the News Labs APIs, and all the data held in The Juicer, to Yahoo! Hack Europe. You can see the BBC News Labs at Yahoo! Hack Europe presentation here and the video of the News Labs presentation here. BBC News Labs Presentation at Yahoo! … Continue reading BBC News Labs APIs at Yahoo! HackEurope 2013
News Storyline Ontology is published – Open Data Standards
Very pleased that Jeremy Tarling and partners published the News Storyline Ontology today. This is looking favourable as the cornerstone of BBC News’ future curation data structure. This has been some great work, coming out of News Labs’ “PR & Outreach” workstream.
Launching a new BBC News Agile Delivery Process
In the past few weeks, we (the BBC News Project Managers and I) have rolled out a new Portfolio Delivery process, based around the phases in the BBC’s “Product Lifecycle”. This figure shows how we are now managing EPIC-level features through the product development process. What does this mean? What is the benefit? This means that we … Continue reading Launching a new BBC News Agile Delivery Process