The

I regularly write for the . asked me to round up some of what 麻豆社 R&D have been writing about on our blog over the summer.

Out of our North Lab came the concept of Perceptive Media - adapting stories to the audience by using information about that audience and their context. As Ian in July:

"...it takes narrative back to something more aligned to a storyteller and an audience around a campfire ... to create something closer to a personal theatre experience in your living room".

They released their first instantiation of this, a short radio play called "Breaking Out" which you can .

For the Olympics we released an Augmented Reality application to . Robert, Bruce and Paul wrote about . We worked with colleagues in Japanese broadcaster NHK to bring 7680x4320 resolution, 22.2 channel sound screenings of the Olympics to a . And our was used during NBC's coverage, even picking up fans such as .

We launched a using our and introduced our new project on .

Our work on giving you complementary images alongside radio programmes when listening on hybrid broadcast & internet radios. And we have been using the emerging set of standards from the . Soon, you too will be able to loop, oscillate, wobbulate and modulate from your browser.
wrote a follow up to the on what R&D have been doing with and .

For something completely different, a . Ant finished up his series of videos explaining some of the 麻豆社's work in including work on .

We created a new section on our website to showcase the latest prototypes and code on the web from R&D - . Speaking of , we're working on refreshing the design, structure and content of it and you could really help us out by .

Finally, some events - the in Amsterdam has just finished, where we presented many papers and showed our , RadioDNS, prototypes and more to the many thousands of visitors. And don't forget the around C麻豆社 and user experience happening over the coming months - you might get to help shape the future of the 麻豆社 online.

Tristan Ferne is lead producer, Internet Research & Future Services, 麻豆社 R&D

is our latest prototype and a spin-off from . It showcases some of the hottest bands and artists on the web, as identified by a number of independent sources, lets you listen to short clips and shows you where you can find that music on the 麻豆社.

We use data from a number of independent sources to determine what music is trending - the buzz about music on the internet, usually based on what's being talked about, what's being played, what's being sold, what's being written about and more. All our current sources have public APIs. From we use the , from we take their and from we create a combined chart from their .

Read the rest of on the and leave your comments.

The R&D Prototyping team has recently built an internal prototype for 麻豆社 Vision called the Mythology Engine. It's a proof-of-concept for a website that represents 麻豆社 drama on the web letting you explore our dramas, catch up on story-lines, discover new characters and share what you find.

Most TV drama on the web is either deep and detailed fan-produced sites or visually rich but shallow sites from the broadcasters. We believe there is a middle way and it seems like there's a space for something here. Something that expresses the richness and depth of the stories that the 麻豆社 creates.

.

or read on to find out more.

After our recent hackday on music visualisation we ran a quick two week sprint with the R&D Prototyping team to develop a combination of the best and the most feasible of the ideas that came out. Radio Waves is the result of that sprint.

at 麻豆社 Radio labs blog

bbc:programme=b00lj1nc

That's it, the photo is now machine tagged. Machines can now discover that refers to . This is a rather trivial example; my radio tuned to Any Questions on 麻豆社 Radio 4. If you click through and check the tags on Flickr you'll see something that looks like the machine tag above.

Album covers from the charts are laid out as a .

were wondering the other day how much people search for local information from the 麻豆社, so as a quick hack we got hold of the top 10,000 search terms from the bbc.co.uk search logs for one day, July 9th. Then using the we extracted any UK place names from the search terms, counted them up and plotted them on a map*. It's just a little thing but we thought it might be interesting.

* though I removed the map from the final rendering, I think it's prettier that way.

Tristan Ferne is Senior Development Producer, R&D, FM&T for Audio & Music Interactive.

First, we have the Hat of Rock which measures the amount of head thrashing.

. Rock on.

Chris took a dump of the database - we've got around 1400 registered users and 24,000 "listen events", from when we launched in September to now. He removed any personal and extraneous data and then used PHP to process the data and write out text files of the data we needed - basically, a piece of data for every hour in which each user listened to 麻豆社 Radio through Radio Pop. I then used to draw some images of this data.

Tristan Ferne is Senior Development Producer, R&D, FM&T for Audio & Music Interactive.

TOGs - "This Ordinary Group" - Official and Unofficial Listener Activities around Wake Up to Wogan

Our part of the project looked at online listener engagement of a very specific kind: fans of celebrity DJs. We focused on an off-麻豆社 case study: "Terry's Old Gals/Geezers", or TOGs, the loyal audience contributing (additional) wit and wisdom to Wake Up To Wogan (WUTW).

We analysed material in the public domain atand interviewed a number of TOGs. We rapidly discovered two things...

and .

Tristan Ferne is Senior Development Producer, R&D, FM&T for Audio & Music Interactive.

Contrasting Interactivities: 麻豆社 Radio Message Boards as an Extension of and Break from Radio's History of Listener Participation

A case study of 麻豆社 radio message boards was conducted in order to explore the relationship between 'new' interactivity, like online fora, and radio's long history of encouraging listener feedback and participation.

and at the .

Tristan Ferne is Senior Development Producer, R&D, FM&T for Audio & Music Interactive.

TOGs, Bourdieu, habitus, mirroring, fan-tagonism, cultural capital, Mustardland and Chuffer Dandridge. Do these mean anything to you? Sound interesting?

This week the Radio Labs blog is going to be leaving the world of technology that we normally write about and will look at another side of the internet. For the past year or so, I have been working with three universities on a study of the online behaviours of listeners and fans of 麻豆社 radio and over the rest of this week, we're going to be publishing guest posts from each of the researchers on their case studies: interactivity on the 麻豆社 Radio messageboards, the off-麻豆社 activity of fans of Terry Wogan, fan cultures around the Archers and how the 麻豆社 serves specialist music fans.

and at the .

Tristan Ferne is Senior Development Producer, R&D, FM&T for Audio & Music Interactive.

to Radio Pop and we will store your listening to 麻豆社 Radio. You can then see graphs, charts and lists of your listening, get recommendations from your friends, share your tastes and browse around to see what other people are hearing right now. Radio Pop is an experimental prototype built by the Radio Labs team - we're doing this to learn things about radio and social software. We don't yet know how long it will remain live and we make no guarantees as to its reliability or performance but we will do our best to make it better over time and welcome your feedback.

at the 麻豆社 Radio Labs blog.

Tristan Ferne is Senior Development Producer, R&D, FM&T for Audio & Music Interactive.

Every evening on Radio 4, the programme contains events that happened (approximately) "today" in - so if it's Easter in real-life then it's Easter in The Archers. It's also very topical - featuring real-life events such as outbreaks of or the World Cup. As a drama, each episode is split into distinct scenes - typically indicated by a fading to silence - a convention for audio drama because of its need for clear signposting. The other interesting aspect is the many distinct facets of each scene - which characters are involved, the time of day, the current location, the storylines that intersect at that moment and even the weather. (Picture of Archers recording from 1981)

So, earlier this year, the Radio Labs team started to design and build a prototype website for The Archers based around the drama's scenes and facets.

at the 麻豆社 Radio labs blog.

Tristan Ferne is Senior Development Producer, R&D, FM&T for 麻豆社 Audio & Music Interactive.

Olinda is a new radio that has been built for 麻豆社 Audio & Music Interactive. It includes innovative features like modularity and social networking in a physical device. But we normally build websites and other digital media - so why would we want to build a new radio? To actually have a device in the physical world? These are the three reasons I give...

at 麻豆社 Radio Labs blog.

Tristan Ferne is Senior Development Producer, R&D, FM&T for 麻豆社 Audio & Music Interactive.