A lot has happened since November 2014.

At the time, I was working in the roof - quite literally. My office space was in a room that was so illegal that when I bought the house they weren't allowed to call it a room, even though it had stairs leading up to it.

In the winter months it could be made quite warm, since there wasn't much of it. The room was at the top of the house and you could just about stand up in it--if you bent your head and you stayed right in the middle, where the top of the roof was.

The window gave a view of the rooftops of North London suburbia: a view past some lovely trees which some joyless bureaucrat cut down, over to a park, and beyond it, Enfield--a little country town that had inexplicably ended up rather too close to the rest of London.

Last week, the big Australian "Radio Alive" conference was in my home town of Brisbane. I popped along to it, and was quite pleasantly surprised. The high quality of the event wasn't the surprise. It's always been a large, flash event. The first time I went to it was ...

Quite a long time ago now, I wrote radio ads for a living. I wrote them for seven years in all, mainly for local clients. Smartly-dressed sales executives used to take a scruffy creative along with them to take a brief, or to read a script. The dress code was on ...

There's a new copyright law in Europe. It's aimed at people like Google, forcing them to pay news organizations if they used more than just a headline to link to stories on news websites. In France, which is the first country to put these new copyright rules in place, ...

I once sat at the end of a telephone line, helping people tune into their favourite radio station. This was a real eye-opener. Many don't even know the difference between AM and FM; and some sets are marked in strange ways that make it really hard to tune in. You ...

If there's one thing being talked about a lot over the last year or so, it's 5G. It's a new technology for mobile broadband. 5G is interesting to large public broadcasters, because, I think, it's the only platform that can deliver everything that they produce: radio, ...

It's been 40 years since Trevor Horn wrote the Buggles' "Video Killed The Radio Star." Video didn't, of course. 9 out of 10 people listen to the radio every week, in countries as diverse as Malaysia, the U.S., France and Australia. Radio's reach hasn't changed in the ...

Something called BBC Notes was posted on the BBC's Research and Development blog the other week. It's a web app "that shows text, images, and links, to enhance the listening experience during live events, live broadcasts, and on demand". There are quite a lot of these ...

As Google knows, I'm in Kuala Lumpur today, in Malaysia. Google knows exactly where I am. It knows where I was yesterday; what airline I used to travel here; what news stories I read this morning; what's in my diary for tomorrow. It knows what music I listen to, what ...

Recently, I was at Podcast Movement in Orlando. It's the largest podcast event in the world, I think, with a variety of sessions covering almost everything you needed to know about podcasting. The event grows each year. Podcasting is an increasingly serious business, ...