Tag Archives: Radio

30 days of ideas – 02: Radio Alerts 5

Photo by Ian Hayhurst
This is the first of what I suspect will be a number of radio-related ideas in amongst the 30.
Radio Alerts
Today’s idea is a blend of existing technologies to create a service that I, for one, would find very useful – ‘Google Alerts‘ style messages containing direct links to time-shifted radio content that [...]

Zane Lowe Radio Documentary Slideshow Trailer 0

Sam Coley and I made a documentary about Zane. Coming soon…

The invention of Spotcasts 3

Today I launched a new weekly jazz show. But it’s not on the radio. In fact, all it is is a Spotify playlist linked from a Posterous blog page.
You can find the show here: Dubber’s Sunday Jazz.
It’s a two hour playlist of jazz, chosen by me. No talking – just the tunes. And [...]

Interviewing Zane 1

Just returned from London where I was interviewing Zane Lowe for a radio documentary I’m making with Sam Coley for Radio New Zealand. The programme is called Musical Chairs, and it’s a series that focuses on New Zealand musicians, and tells their story through interview and music.
Of course, Zane’s not really known over here in [...]

Of cats and monsters 3

Years ago, I put a couple of radio shows I had produced back when I was a radio producer up on the internet. One of them, Ashley’s Worlds, was a kids’ ‘cartoon for radio’, in which all the characters were cats. The other, Claybourne was a sort of sci-fi-soap-opera-thriller-adventure in which – well, lots of [...]