No, Danker

I'm still grumpy about a range of things in the proposed changes to the BBC's online services. Apparently Panorama had 5 (yes, 5) staff to run their website; they're allowed to keep two.  Why does Panorama need an active website at all, when 6Music, BBC Radio 7 and many others go to automation ?

That's probably by-the-bye. The future for accessing BBC radio content online remains as clear as mud.  It's sort of coming out of iPlayer into a "new product" that the Auntie is going to build.  The unlikely Daniel Danker (Berkeley and Microsoft) describes the brief thus...

Here's what we want the product to do:

• Better bring out the personality of the networks, presenters and DJs
• Rich pages for our flagship programmes (e.g. The Today Programme, The Archers)
• Integrate music events
• Be highly personalised and available on lots of internet-connected devices (people want radio on the move)
• Be highly social; pulling in the buzz around live radio
• Become a home for podcasts (both 'catch-up' and 'archive' content), as well as improve the way we offer clips
• Make better use of technology to improve exploration, discovery, sharing, and listening
• Create a new design especially for radio and music
• Link up closely with the TV & iPlayer product (but not duplicate it), sharing link

 I think Mr Danker and his team should share the budget information for this unfocussed project with us. iPlayer is a perfectly reasonable way of catching up with BBC Radio.  Many people around the world are happy finding music through YouTube.   Enough "products" already, Mr Danker.