Moseley Barcamp

“Moseley Barcamp” was held at The Cross in Moseley on Sunday the 28th of July and was a free-ranging forum for those involved in Birmingham’s social media / internet “scene”. Speakers included Pete Ashton, Nick Booth, Chris Unitt and Michael Grimes to name but a few… Since the hard working guys from Rhubarb Radio were streaming live from the event it made sense to touch on the role of super-local online radio content and how it relates to the current proliferation of community radio in Birmingham. The ongoing visualisation of radio was another topic of discussion, especially the emergence of audio-slideshows. (Brummie based Ben Chesterton is an award winning proponent of the medium via his excellent “duckrabbit” site. )

A common comment I hear in regards to adding pictures to radio is; “Don’t you mean TV?”… No, not really… audio slideshows are a different ballgame altogether. Mainly for the simple reason that unlike most TV production, the images follow the sound. The audio nearly always comes first. Not the other way round.

Here I am talking about local radio to an audience member who accosted me outside Moseley Bar Camp, an initative to support the digital creative industries in Birmingham.

PS. Thanks to cartoonist Alex Hughes for sketching this during my presentation…