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Welcome to the home of Square Dog Radio LLP, formed in 2007
by award-winning producers Mark Whitaker and Mike Hally as founding partners
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Inside the Virtual Anthill - Open Source Means BusinessRadio 4 , Monday 1st June, 9 pm
The three best known "open source" projects are Mozilla, Wikipedia and Linux
A lot’s been said about ‘open source’ software, like the free web browser Firefox and the operating system Linux, but little about how thousands of programmers scattered around the world collaborate in a “virtual anthill” to create products that rival more commercial offerings. So this programme goes behind the scenes to see how it’s done – and to show how its ethos is being applied to other kinds of business.
The most startling example is the gold-mining company Goldcorp which was in the doldrums, with its biggest mine under-performing badly, until the CEO Rob McEwen went to an MIT seminar about Linux. In a “eureka moment” McEwen decided to put all the company’s jealously guarded geological information onto the internet and hold a competition for web users to tell them where to dig next. Over 100 excellent suggestions followed, yielding so much gold that the company valuation rose from $100 million to $9 billion.
Presented by Gerry Northam, with contributions from IBM, Mozilla, Linux, Wikipedia, MIT, McEwen and more, mostly on site in California, Oregon and Toronto – and an expert on ant colonies.
Produced by Mike Hally
An Egyptian farmer is dazzled by a proffered deal from a glitzy international hotel : his sons don’t trust it at all.
Society of Environmental Journalists
award for "outstanding in-depth reporting, radio"
Mark Whitaker
for
"Danger
Fuels"
Sony
Silver Award 2004
Mark Whitaker
''Land of the Oval Ball''
European ''Best Writing for Radio'' Award 2007:
Mike Hally
(various programmes
for Radio 4)
British Environment and
Media Award 2007:
Mark Whitaker for ''Danger Fuels'' (World Service)
- special commendation
Bar Council Legal
Journalist of the Year
1999 and
Medical
Journalism
Silver
Award 1994
Mark Whitaker
both ''File on 4''
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