I’m in a blink-and-miss-it snippet on the MediaGuardian podcast this week chipping in about We Media. Thankfully the skillful Bobbie Johnson managed to make me not sound like a total idiot, which is nice…

Something I’ve been mulling over for a few days.

I love Radio 4, but there are quite a few repeats and the odd excrutiatingly dull programme with that Melanie Phillips woman. Radio 1 can be quite nauseating during the day, but Scott Mills and Colin Murray are both pretty funny and I really need the new music in the evenings. And I rate BBC 6 too for more great music.

So I want to mash up my own BBC Radio 416, and not by using listen again to old programmes one-by-one. (And not every programme is listen again-able anyway.) So what I’ve been thinking about is like a combination of the Radio Times schedules and the BBC’s own media player. So you can plan a week’s listening by ticking boxes next to the shows you want, and then just keep the player open all week and it’ll play one then the other! I should stick that on BBC Backstage probably.

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Highlights so far are that I saw a mouse running along the side of the conference hall (Langham Hotel, London) and learned about Kuwaiti girls and boys arranging illicit meet-ups by bluetooth.

Coverage on MocoNews.net. Conference site here.

I want my iPod to be a phone and a camera and to have wireless access. The Apple phone isn’t too far away but I don’t buy this idea that a ‘converged’ device will have lots of things that won’t work as well as they would individually. That’s just a matter of time. I just don’t want to carry round loads of different gadgets, and I want all my gadgets to look as good as my iPod. Still waiting for the flying cars though…

The Apple Store rescued me today after two bloody days trying to cover the FT Mobile conference with no wireless access. Actually they did have wireless access but I refused to pay £5 per hour for it. Anyway, free wireless here in the Apple Store. I have died and gone to iHeaven! Praise be for Apple.

I wonder if heaven was designed by Jonathan Ive?

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Until recently I’d never really thought about broadcast journalism because writing kind of feels like home. But it’s only going to become more and more expected and I want some guidance on the basics.

Far too much ‘umming’ and ‘ah-ing’, and nervous laughter to train myself out of. I suspect I’d also have a tendency to speak far too fast when I’m really excited about something or just top clam up if I think about too much and get nervous.

The NUJ has an ‘introduction to‘ course for £205, and the BBC has a 10-day course for a trifling £3900. The course looks great, but that’s more than a little put of my budget! Any recommendations?

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