BBC Internet Blog - Brett Spencer https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/bbcinternet/ Staff from the BBC's online and technology teams talk about BBC Online, BBC iPlayer, and the BBC's digital and mobile services. The blog is reactively moderated. Posts are normally closed for comment after three months. Your host is Eliza Kessler. en Copyright 2012 Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:21:10 +0000 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=4.33-en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss We're closing the 5 live messageboards Thanks to everyone for your comments about the new 5 live website. You'll have noticed that we're continuing to make changes and to add new elements. Next week will see a significant new development: the launch of a service called 5 live Now (editor's note: initially for one programme - the Breakfast Show phone-in - SB). This will give you the chance to make comments online - and hear them within 5 live programmes.

5 live Now makes the whole network more responsive to listener comment and puts your views closer to producers and presenters - for use on-air and on the web site. We'll pull together online comment, contributions from social networks, texts and emails and feed them directly to programme editors and the radio station as a whole. Your contributions will also be much more visible on the new site. 5 live Now will operate in real-time and give more prominence to the contributions selected.

So we're closing the existing 5 live messageboards when 5 live Now goes live...

Read more and comment at the 5 live blog

Brett Spencer is Interactive Editor, BBC Radio 5 live.

]]> Brett Spencer Brett Spencer https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/bbcinternet/2009/09/were_closing_the_5_live_messag.html https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/bbcinternet/2009/09/were_closing_the_5_live_messag.html Radio 5 live Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:21:10 +0000 Living Live Online 5live_newsroom_250.jpgIt's an exciting time at BBC Radio 5 live as we gear up for our first new website launch since 1974. Well it seems that long since we last had a new website, although it's probably about 6 years in reality.

The new site will launch in September and my colleagues Jags Parbha and Rob Banathy and I have been working alongside the very fine boys and girls at Good Technology to produce what we hope will be a truly innovative experience.

GT came up with the tagline very early on in development of Living Live Online, reflecting exactly what we wanted to achieve. It's a principle we have tried to stick to as we have progressed the new site. Our mission has been to bring the online offering much closer to the radio station, reflecting the live nature of the network.

The new site will bring two significant developments. The first is 5 live Now, a unique offering that will reflect online the live debate between 5 live and its audience. This will surface most of our listeners' texts, emails, online messages and social media contributions. It also means we can use far more content from the audience than we would have time for on the radio.

The discussions will be archived along with the audio of the radio programme, which brings us to our second innovation. The new site will be the first in the BBC to feature chapterisation. While our podcasts have performed very well, 5 live audio on demand does not. Listeners don't want to hear three hours of the breakfast show on iPlayer and its difficult to find the parts you do want to hear. Chapterisation will break the programme down into clearly labelled items and means that the 5 live schedule will become far more navigable for the user than ever before.

We'll blog more about the new site as we build up to launch and of course value your feedback.

Brett Spencer is the interactive editor for 5 Live.

]]> Brett Spencer Brett Spencer https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/bbcinternet/2009/08/living_live_online.html https://bbcstreaming.pages.dev/blogs/bbcinternet/2009/08/living_live_online.html Radio & Music Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:48:08 +0000