A trawl around the web, August 1st to August 31st
Posted on Sunday, August 31st, 2008 at 10:52pm. #
Some rather nice beer I drank in Prague on holiday earlier on in August
On radio’s proven web strategies
Merlin Mann [Twitter]
Merlin Mann makes a good point: “NPR drives traffic to their home page by never announcing any URL except their own: a proven web strategy also known as "being a huge dick."”
Selling Brands, Nick Hewat [one golden square]
An essential piece of reading for anyone involved in radio. Ignore the selling brands bit. This should be taught at university.
On audio formats online
Interview with Richard Hulse of Radio New Zealand, on the decision to offer Ogg Vorbis [Groklaw]
Radio New Zealand now offering Ogg Vorbis (wrongly, in my view, since nobody bothers with it really).
The Prestige Factor by Ben Matthew [One Golden Square]
Virgin Radio's AAC+ stream gets listened to by "a peak of 32 concurrent listeners". Yikes.
On other websites
This is it. This is us. [Gigulate]
“The Gigulator is our guide through the world of music, ingesting all the juiciest Music News, Gig Listings, Blogs and general information at a rate you wouldn’t believe, crunching it up like crazy and spitting it out in a nice clean digested bolus, a bit like an owl.” Nice. Gigulate is a project from some of my old team; and looking good.
Metropolitan Police Service - Crime mapping test site
Wow, this is quite neat. Apparently my area is "average", though whether that's averagely good or bad is hard to know.
Books that I’ve bought
Pattern Recognition: William Gibson [amazon.co.uk]
Conversation with new friend called Del earlier this week, over pint of Pitfield Brewery "Eco Warrior", where he soundly recommends this book. So convincingly, iPhone was used for half a minute and book was bought. It arrived today, to be added to the pile of 'books I haven't yet read but ought to'.
Other things of interest
Apple hit with class-action lawsuit over iPhone 3G flakiness [arstechnica]
"Alabama resident Jessica Alena Smith [alleges] that the new iPhone's 3G performance and reliability has been subpar, despite the claims made by Apple's aggressive marketing campaign." Hilarious, and mad.
Online POKER marketing could spell the NAKED end of VIAGRA journalism as we LOHAN know it [The Guardian]
Charlie Brooker at his best: "Search engine optimisation is the journalistic equivalent of a classified ad that starts with the word "SEX!" in large lettering, and "Now that we've got your attention . . ." printed below it in smaller type."
John Naughton: The Google Killer engine has arrived … er, no it hasn't [The Observer]
Brilliant piece about Cuil (and the Commons Select Committee on culture, media and sport); John on the ball as ever
jamescridland's Bookmarks on Delicious
Crikey. Delicious has changed a bit, hasn't it? Coo. Good redesign: it's kept the simple feel of the original, while brought it up to date. Good stuff
This is a tidied and edited list of my del.icio.us postings from August 1st to August 31st. You can subscribe to this list, live, via rss.
Daniel Nebdal said at October 13th, 2008 at 5:29pm 
