Alan Is On The Edge
The man standing too close to the edge is Alan Braidwood. It's his job to maintain and update the Radio Scotland website and over the past few weeks he hasn't had his sorrows to seek. He's been fielding the e-mails from angry and confused listeners who lament the passing of the old site and the old radio player.
In the main, the problems stem from the introduction of the new version of the Ö÷²¥´óÐã iPlayer which, for the first time, allows users to seek radio and television programmes from the same place. It comes complete with relevant photographs to illustrate radio programmes and has lots of fancy new bells and whistles. You can, for example, e-mail a radio programme to a friend...and it's easier to scroll through a programme to find the particular bit you want to hear again.
But it's been a hugely complicated technical job and not everything is working as smoothly as we had hoped. Our local news bulletins, for example, have to be accessed in a different way. This called a Navigation Problem, apparently, which always makes me think of Christopher Columbus.
People thought he was sailing close to the edge too.
Meanwhile please be assured that we are working to iron out all the glitches and this new site will soon allow is to provide a lot more content.
Alan is working flat out.
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