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“Radio Drama At A Distance” OpenTech presentation

by Richard Elen 5 July 2009

View the slides that accom­pa­nied my Open­Tech 2009 pre­sen­ta­tion on how to record radio drama using VoIP technology.

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“Beeching-style” BBC enquiry? You must be joking

by Richard Elen 3 July 2009

ITN news­caster Alas­tair Stew­art attacked the BBC at a CBI NW region din­ner last night, sug­gest­ing that it would ben­e­fit from a “Beech­ing style enquiry” to assess whether its ser­vices are all really “nec­es­sary and viable”. What a bad idea.

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Radio and Britain’s digital future

by Richard Elen 1 July 2009

If we’re keep­ing DAB, we need to upgrade it to use mod­ern codecs. But why not skip all that and move the “radio space” to IP net­works? How­ever, you can’t do that until there is a national broad­band infra­struc­ture that will need a lot more than copper-based 2Mb/s. So until then, maybe keep­ing FM is the thing to do…

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Two weeks to OpenTech 2009

by Richard Elen 23 June 2009

Just two weeks to Open­Tech 2009 on July 4 in Lon­don. I’m talk­ing on how to do radio drama using Voice over IP (VoIP).

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The Digital Britain report and what it means

by Richard Elen 23 June 2009

If you want to find out about the Dig­i­tal Britain Report, here’s where to go for a use­ful overview.

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Mothering for the Environment Conference (Toronto, Canada)

by Leona Graham 17 June 2009

Leona will be pre­sent­ing a paper at this con­fer­ence in Toronto, Octo­ber 22–25.

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Digital Britain Unconferences Report released: Please sign up!

by Richard Elen 29 May 2009

The Dig­i­tal Britain Uncon­fer­ence Report has now been issued and is being con­sid­ered by the group putting together the offi­cial Dig­i­tal Britain report, a very short time from now. Please read the report and, if you agree with it and its rec­om­men­da­tions, add your name to it.

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A Voice in Digital Lives

by Richard Elen 20 May 2009

Richard has been record­ing voiceovers for the British Library “Dig­i­tal Lives” project.

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Connect / Community / Change

by Leona Graham 19 May 2009

Connect/Community/Change (CCC) at the South Som­er­set Green Fair at Thor­ney Park nr Langport/Glastonbury, Som­er­set on Sun­day 14 June 2009.

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Standing for Election at a Critical Time

by Leona Graham 19 May 2009

If you want fair­ness and jus­tice and reform in the polit­i­cal sphere, vote Lib­eral Demo­c­rat in the Cam­bridgeshire County Coun­cil Elec­tions on June 4.

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