Monthly Archives: May 2009

“I’m Dressed and Ready To Go” by Nelson Kumah

29May

Looking back, upon hearing those words perhaps we should have known we were in for a strange night.
At 7:45 last night Hometime listener Alison had never heard of Florence and the Machine. By 10:45 she was rubbing shoulders with Florence Welch of the afore-mentioned band.
Geoff, Gareth and myself were ‘lucky’ enough to spend the evening [...]

Categories: Events 3

Posted by adam on May 29, 2009

Absolute Radio Playlist: 26 May 2009

27May

The latest playlist is now available.
There’s a new entry from Florence and the Machine, while Geoff’s Hometime Record of the Week is I Just Want To Spend Some Time With You by Howard Eliott Payne.

Categories: playlist 2

Posted by adam on May 27, 2009

Radio Head

26May

A new book was published last week – Radio Head – by John Osborne. No, not our John Osborne. Another one.
The book is one person’s experiences listening to lots of different radio stations to help him through his mundane data entry job. And chapter one is about us! Well in our old Virgin Radio guise, [...]

Categories: People 4

Posted by adam on May 26, 2009

Why Do We Like Twitter? by Clive Dickens

26May

Why do like Twitter? Is it because it has 32 Million Global Visitors?
What can we learn from Twitters success?
• Conversations – People based utility rather just website or software
• Less is more – micro blogging suits us, who has time to write long blog posts
• Control & Convienence – available across all platforms, mobile & free
• Gossip – Windows [...]

Categories: Technology 1

Posted by adam on May 26, 2009

Q1 2009 DAB Update

19May

At the end of last week, the Digital Radio Development Bureau published its latest regular update on the state of DAB digital radio in the UK.
Their headline figure, taken from the Q1 2009 RAJAR release, is that 32.1% of adults now live in a DAB household – very nearly a third. This is up 17% [...]

Categories: Technology 0

Posted by adam on May 19, 2009