BBC’s World Have Your Say, Live
Brendan Greeley, February 22nd, 2007
The host is running around the room with a mic in his hand; this is an amazing performance, flexible but choreographed. Producers walk from commenter to commenter; some commenters speak for themselves, some read emails that have been sent to the show’s website. The host talks and gestures; it feels like the flight deck of a carrier.
I sat in this morning on the show’s editorial meeting here in Boston, crowded around a conference phone linked to the BBC office in London and a listener in Nairobi. The meeting’s first question: “What was the most emailed story on the BBC’s web site?” Today it was the jailing of an Egyptian Blogger, but it occurred to me that traffic can be a conversation, every bit as valid as a comment or an email.
When listeners spend time on the BBC web site and email each other stories, they’re actually talking to the BBC, they’re saying “This is important and worth digging into.” Everyone who runs a website and has access to a page hit counter is having a conversation.
February 22nd, 2007 at 2:42 pm
Gotta say, this was an amazing performance. I had to wonder how much crack he smoked before the show — he was buzzing around like a hummingbird, and he seemed totally at ease doing it. Just blockbuster excitement. I loved it. I want to run home to my station and startup a show like this (and Radio Open Source) right away!
February 23rd, 2007 at 11:35 am
Brendan, I’m glad that you make the point that traffic is a form of communication. It bears repeating until we really hear and approach it as such.
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