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Who are the bloggers? Who are the podcasters? Why do they do it? Do they think radio is obsolete or alive and well? Are they partners or competitors? With broadband take up increasing and the rise and rise of Facebook, My Space and Twitter, social networking effects and personalised media have become mainstream. But what does it mean for radio when everyone is a publisher? Those were the questions asked at the Radio Academy Conference in Cambridge last week, and the video above was made by Nick Reynolds from the BBC to help answer them.

All three videos of bloggers shown at the Radio Festival are now available on You Tube. Radio Five Live’s Pods and Blogs did a special programme on the Radio Festival which can be heard here. Rory Cellan Jones posted some photos of backstage activity on Facebook, as did Matt Hall, while Jemima Kiss gave her thoughts afterwards on Media Guardian.

I must say it is great to see someone in the BBC encouraging debate about the future of radio. Well done Nick Reynolds and his colleagues.

Antony Pitts resources via this path, Jonathan Harvey via this one. And this path will take you to more than seventy other composers well worth investigating.
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Look Out! They’re Behind You

I wrote recently about the contribution that I was asked to make to the 2007 Radio Festival which takes place this week in Cambridge. Full details of the Festival via this link, here is a summary of the session my contribution is in:

Tuesday July 10th 09:40 - Look Out! They’re Behind You – podcasters and new formats
Who are the bloggers? Who are the podcasters? Why do they do it? Do they think radio is obsolete or alive and well? Are they partners or competitors? With broadband take up increasing and the rise and rise of Facebook, My Space and Twitter, social networking effects and personalised media have become mainstream. But what does it mean for radio when everyone is a publisher?
Rory Cellan-Jones, (Technology Correspondent, BBC News) introduces some of the people “formerly known as the audience”, on blogs, on pods, online and in person.
Rory Cellan-Jones, Produced by Nick Reynolds and Simon Hopkins.

If you have a FaceBook account there are more details and pictures here. Nick Reynolds says the conference video will be on YouTube after the session. I'll publish a link when available. Now click here for more evidence that blogging is doing it for our time.
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