One of the few free alternatives to Webex and Microsoft Live Meeting for online collaboration and presentations - I haven’t tried it yet but the description sounds very promising. If any of you try it out, do leave us a comment sharing your experience.
BBC Memoryshare - Jamming the Germans
The 75th anniversary of BBC WS has started some very interesting recollections - including how the BBC was prepared to jam its own network in the event of a Nazi invasion of Britain.
Got the complete tour of Argentina’s national radio station today. This is my second visit - came in 1999 and interviewed people in the English service of Radio Argentina Al Exterior, the overseas service. This time I talked with the people running the various domestic networks. This state network is moving more into the direction […]
Marantz PMD620 Digital Audio Recorder Back on the 7th of OctoberJosh Bancroft
John Bancroft provided us with a shot of the new PMD620 digital audio recorder on show in the US at the Podcast and New Media expo. It takes SD or SDHC memory cards and uses […]
GrandCentral.com started as a typical stealth startup in the Bay Area - somewhere down the line they got bought by Google - a very low profile purchase for Google surprisingly. What GrandCentral provides you is something very basic - an ability to keep one permanent phone number - no matter where in the USA […]
There’s a very timely article in San Jose Mercury News today on how Silicon Valley is gaining from the technology revoluti0n around the w0rld. HP and CISCO - two Silicon Valley giants today get a majority of their revenues from markets outside of North America. Web 2.0 companies serving markets in Brazil, Turkey and Asia […]
Logging the output of 50 stations Originally uploaded by Jonathan Marks
What do you do if you’re the BBC World Service with just over 50 feeds leaving the building at some peak periods. You log the output on hard drives from this company. Comes in models with […]
Radio Comuniaria, Bajo Flores Originally uploaded by Jonathan Marks
This station has made a terrific contribution to a deprived neighbourhood in Buenos Aires, Argentina. I have been looking at what equipment these guys use out in the “real world”.
Beyer 297 Originally uploaded by Jonathan Marks
Seeing more and more of these headphone/close microphone combinations being used in radio studios around the world…the latest siting in BBC World Service South-Asia broadcast centre. The microphone sounds great, providing it is not put too close or knocked out […]
Sony USB Sticks with Microphones Originally uploaded by Jonathan Marks
The Sony NW-DB105 and NW-DB103 in a shop window in Buenos Aires. The only difference is the storage capacity. In Euro the 1 GB works out at 80 Euro in BA, whereas in Europe it is 39 […]