BBC Radio 1 beat my former employer Virgin Radio to a recent Webby Award - and I wasn’t very pleased about it, if I might be honest. I genuinely thought that the Virgin Radio site had undergone a seismic change, reinventing itself as a music destination and innovative social network, all with a very small team. The listening public agreed; and Virgin got just 0.1% less votes than NPR (which has around ten times as many listeners). The judges disagreed with the voting audience, and voted BBC Radio 1’s site as better. I was cranky for a number of weeks after the award, and even now, recognising my current colleagues in BBC Radio 1’s interactive team as a bunch of geniuses, I still can’t quite tell myself to be pleased that BBC Radio 1 got the Webby.

Not that I’m saying it’s not well deserved. It is. The BBC Radio 1 website is great, and particularly when compared with the embarrassment of many commercial stations’ websites (here and overseas) the difference of quality is tremendous. The current Interactive Editor, Dan Heaf, is a hugely clever man who doesn’t apparently understand the meaning of the word “no” in the phrase “no, we can’t do that”, and amazingly gets it done anyway.

I say ‘the current editor’, because he’s moving on. Which is great news for Dan, but less great news for the rest of us.

The BBC Radio 1 (and 1Xtra) Interactive Editor gig is a great one, and probably the biggest gig in interactive music radio. I know that there are loads of people who read this blog who’d do a great job at it. Which is why I reckon you ought to take a peek at the job specification and if you think it’s you (yes, you), then apply.

And if you get the gig, hopefully we’ll retain the Webby next year. Yay! (Listen to me, what a turncoat.)