BBC World Service Trust is attempting to harness the power and pervasiveness of mobile phones to provide English language lessons for the 50+ million mobile users in Bangladesh.

BBC World Service’s Save Our Sounds site collects and archives all the different sounds of the world.

‘Captain Slow’ on Top Gear has been at work on a new series called Toy Stories that will air in UK on BBC2 this autumn.

Piers Fawkes writes an opinion piece in reaction to industry suggestions that mainstream media will return to charging online.

People are sharing bit.ly briefened links to video taken and uploaded minutes before and other protesters in Tehran hold their phones up high to record and share their activity with Iran and the outside world.
The developments in the use of the web to share, access, edit and discuss information about the crisis in Iran show just how modern news organizations are failing to deliver news in the way the public want to seek it.
Iranians and observers abroad are using right this minute Twitter, blogs, Flickr and YouTube to share information about what is happening within Iran at a speed that [...]

This past January PSFK held Good Ideas Salon in London, bringing together the most forward-thinking tastemakers, innovators, and experts from around the world to discuss key areas steering innovation and opportunity. The last panel of the day focused on Good Ideas Through Collaboration, where Colin Nagy (PSFK / Attention) moderated a talk between Pat Connor (BBC), Jeremy Ettinghausen (Penguin), Sophie Howarth (The School of Life), and Simon Waldman (The Guardian).
While the idea of collaboration is nothing new, the way we use it are still being developed and reinterpreted. Jeremy Ettinghausen noted that collaboration is relatively new in relation [...]

Dubstep – a new sound emerging from London, breaking out of the formulated concepts of the dance scene, borrowing from Dub, Grime, Jungle, Trance and Reggae

All about the wonderful life of John Peel-the man who helped everyone discover punk ,made us think about alternative music, and didn’t rate Oasis.