Wendy’s Gig – “The New York Top” – Live Storytelling
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”.
Reminiscing with JimAndIan – Jim & Ian
Just met with my old primary school buddies James Magnus and Ian Guest. We spent an evening reminiscing, about Moira and many many others.
#newsHACK II – Dublin & Glasgow, May 2014
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!
The Dees rehearsal – at The Joint
Great rehearsal today. Another new tune. Another set of jokes and laughs about our accelerating decrepitude.
“Black Swan Projects” – Business Jargon From the Office
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”.
Connected Studio Workshop at North Lab
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.
Academy College of Journalism video on Rapid Prototyping
The BBC Academy College of Journalism just published this video about Rapid Prototyping with BBC News Labs.
News Labs & R&D Visit to Imperial – Neurotechnology & Data Science
Today we visited Aldo Faisal (creator of the Faisal Lab for Brain & Behaviour) again at Imperial College to go through Neurotechnology prototype opportunities.
BBC Online Briefing, June 2014, with BBC News Labs
Today I presented a BBC News Labs item at the BBC Online Briefing (Last one was in December 2013 – post here).
ICF Canoe Slalom World Cup – with Mel & Steve
Had a great day with Mel & Steve at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Cup. Amazing stuff in this brilliant, configurable white water slalom course.
“Speedboat Projects” – Business Jargon from the Office
A great phrase being used around the office: “We need to support more Speedboat Projects – enable small teams to shoot off ahead with an idea…”
Visit to BBC Belfast – News Archive
Today we made a flying visit to Belfast, to discuss with the BBC folks there how we hope to combine the News Labs and News Archive work.
#newsHACK 2 “Dublin Branch” – Team & Photos
Great event in Dublin & Glasgow – will add more soon. – see #newsHACK hashtag for updates, and #newsHACK website.
BBC News Festival – 2014
With the help of the Global News team, the BBC News Online team and Connected Studio, we had 5 out of 10 tables put on for the 2014 BBC News Festival “Technology Fair” (trade fair format.
Visit Henry in Dubai
Great trip visiting Henry & Mish in Dubai. Saw all the sights, and spent plenty of quality time catching up.
Moira Magnus’ Wake
Yesterday we all went to Moira Magnus’ wake. Moira would have been proud – everyone was making the most of life and enjoying good company.
The Newsroom of Things for ISKO UK – Taming the News Beast
Jeremy Tarling and I both gave talks yesterday at ISKO UK’s Taming the News Beast. Jeremy went into some detail about the News Storyline Ontology, and I talked about how BBC News Labs were planning to tame the news beast in terms of auto-tagging the Journalism data we store – text, images and AV – “The … Continue reading The Newsroom of Things for ISKO UK – Taming the News Beast
The Krill – rehearsal #2
We had the second rehearsal for The Krill. Enterprise in Denmark Street is a great rehearsal spot. Plenty of character.
#newsHACK II Announced – Partnered with #EditorsLab
See this post announcing #newsHACK II – a co-production with Global Editors Network. The event will take place in 2 venues – Glasgow and Dublin. Universities and News Organisations can sign up for #newsHACK II here.
Japan’s Public Broadcaster NHK visits BBC NEWS LABS
I had the pleasure of hosting Takanobu from NHK, Japan’s public service broadcaster, yesterday at the central lab. Takanobu joined us for our fortnightly team catch up, and ran a interview with me too. NHK are also thinking about building their innovation work, and so are looking at the possible models for this.