Links: BBC Sport Redirect, Connected Studio

Some recent nuggests of information about the BBC's online activities which you may have missed.

BBC Sport have introduced a new way to view the BBC Sport home page on your mobile. Ben Gallop, Head of Sport Interactive is quoted:

"The redirect is in response to the changing audience trends which now see more than a third of our audience accessing the website via their mobiles every day."

The Connected Studio initiative continues to provoke enthusiasm:

Will Saunders has created a Storify page with lots of pictures from this week's Connected Studio about comedy. Here's one:

Digital Agency Storythings shoot scenes for their pitch at the Comedy Connected Studio

Simon Hopkins of Turner Hopkins consultants has written a lengthy report about the recent Connected Studio which focused on the Commonwealth Games:

"Given that both innovation in general and the building of relationships between large companies and small suppliers are notoriously thorny areas, the CS process is relatively straightforward. A one day “Creative Studio” (of which this is an example) is an intensive session aimed at selecting a handful of potential projects to take through to the second stage, the “Build Studio”..."

The BBC's Annual Report released this week contained a page of information about the performance of BBC Online.

Yesterday the BBC User Experience Research Partnership was announced, a long-term collaboration project between BBC Research and Development (BBC R&D) and leading universities. According to the press release the technical scope of the partnership includes:

"Designing for New Interaction: Moving beyond gesture and voice to develop new ways of controlling and displaying digital content for more natural and engaging interfaces."

The BBC's Knowledge and Learning product is looking for interactive proposals exploring new perspectives about the First World War. The brief is in the form of a PDF.

It's a bit short notice but BBC R&D are holding an event on Monday in London called "R&D in Session: IP in broadcasting – from creation to consumption". From the EventBryte page it looks as though there are still places available.

And finally Paul Bennan has written a blog post called "Heat Death, Crap Systems, How Connected Studio Will Save The BBC". Sample quote:

"Look — what I’m suggesting with this hopelessly over-egged-pudding-metaphor-thingamy is this: in 2013, inefficient human behaviour and server behaviour are functionally indistinguishable to the systems around you, and natural selection wants you dead."

As always, just because I've linked to something does not mean either I or the BBC agree with it.

Have a sunny weekend!

Nick Reynolds is Editor, Internet blog