Tag Archives: backchat

A new tiny toy for everyone to play with as I sit in the cafe at Morrisons (Beccles)… #OWAB. Tis, after all, the ‘Age of Participation’.

The trouble with our AOL being down – and it’s now BT’s fault, apparently – is that I’m now having to work from a new ‘office’, aka the cafe at Morrison’s, Beccles.
Cos Loddon being a conservation area, we don’t do mobile phone signals either. So the 3G data card doesn’t work either…
Put the two together [...]

On our 4iP voyage of discovery, here’s me re-thinking my media; here’s ‘backchat’ as a linkage tool to local TV content…

I should have mentioned it last week but in the midst of all the managerial upheaval at Carrow Road, slipped me by…
But, anyway, they’ve done it again today. So I can now add another strand to our ‘backchat’ thinking… as in what does ‘backchat’ do for you? Just what were 4iP up to when they [...]

For sickle and scythe, read lap-top and mobile. And courtesy of bestbefore.tv and 4iP, look what my mobile does now…

Here we go… two new toys from the 4iP cupboard. And congratulations to both.
For if lap-top and mobile are, indeed, our sickle and scythe, then – come this revolution, brothers and sisters – look at what we can now do off our Apple iPhones….
http://www.4ip.org.uk/blog/4ip_invests_in_audioboo/
… we can be a hyper-local radio station; we can podcast an [...]

Lesson to be learned five weeks into our 4iP project? Well, quite a lot happens when ‘backchat’ meets Addiply. I start to make money, for example…

Given ‘backchat’ is now just about five weeks old, I kind of figured it might be time for a few early lessons learned.
Particularly now that it has been tested under ‘battlefield conditions’ in the shape of Glenn Roeder’s sacking as Norwich City boss on Wednesday lunchtime.
The highlights of the day’s ‘conversation’ now follows. Kicking off [...]

What does ‘Backchat’ do? It re-thinks the way that I service my public’s media needs.

There is a real danger that me and my No1 fan could ‘enjoy’ a tennis match here, so I’ll say no more.
http://www.4ip.org.uk/blog/4ips_first_project_out_the_door_ncfc/
In fairness, it did get me to thinking about why we were able to tick a few of 4iP’s boxes this winter. And I think part of the answer lies in the title.
Sorry, their [...]

TMG quick to spot a hand that could help feed them; the same hand that the Newspaper Society wanted bitten off..

We have, of course, muttered much about the virtues of this new ‘link economy’; that as this great beast that is the Web chews us all up and spits us out again, who can – in all honesty – afford to be all things to all men?
Who can, hand on heart, be this all-singing, all-dancing [...]

Shirky’s thoughts on the fall of The Tribune Group act as a timely reminder of why understanding the structural failure of the newspaper industry remains key to its potential survival…

If only because one of my more seminal, mid-life crisis moments arrived courtesy of the man – C Shirky/40th birthday/newspapers are like the record industry, etc – his thoughts on the fall of the Tribune Group are – as Jeff Jarvis points out – well worth a read….
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/12/08/the-newspaper-indust.html
Mr Shirky has been a constant companion almost [...]

In response to Mr MySociety, here’s a few more thoughts on ‘backchat’ as our 4iP baby begins to show signs of life

I’ll apologise to anyone in advance who hopes I might be able to deliver a technical explanation of how ‘backchat’ works; as I explained in the response to Tom’s comment…
http://outwithabang.rickwaghorn.co.uk/?p=185
…on such matters of plumbing I defer to my honourable web producer and tech-meister Neil [Mason] and Karl and the crew at ETT; oh and Jamie [...]

Very early days; and I’m sure we’ll do fuller de-briefs. But what’s interesting is what backchat offers by way of a straight journalistic device… for me, not you.

I’m sure there will be fuller post-mortems in the days and weeks that follow after ‘backchat’ made its derby ‘debut’ at Carrow Road this afternoon.
By and large – IMHO, of course – it did well; the platform proved pretty stable; no major crashes; the odd, glitch when it appears to go from ‘37 mins ago…’ [...]

A warm Friday afternoon welcome to ‘backchat’ – or rather the #NCFC version. A 4iP-funded project suddenly made web flesh…

I’m not one for drum rolls; nor after the summer and autumn that we’ve had, am I much in the mood for popping champagne corks everywhere. A quiet pint in the White Horse in Chedgrave will have to suffice.
But, there we go… a 4iP-funded project out of the door and sat there on www.myfootballwriter.com/norwichcity
It’s the [...]

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