A trawl around the web, June 11th to June 19th
Posted on Saturday, June 20th, 2009 at 7:55pm. #
Radio and that
Great Use of Twitter by a Radio Station [Paul Easton]
Paul Easton notes a really good bit of Twittering from 106 Jack FM. This is good stuff – and a good spot by Paul.
It’s time to get up, and get on your way… [Does that make sense?]
A rather good piece from Matthew Rudd about what it's like being a breakfast show presenter. And a title, of course, made from the lyrics to a jingle on Simon Mayo's breakfast show on Radio 1. Don't think I didn't notice.
Capital FM’s Summertime Ball [James Stodd – Radio Producer]
A positive review of Capital's Summertime Ball – but a rather negative review of what they did online. Not much, by the looks of things.
NPR: One Old Media Brand That Gets It [CBS News]
A rather interesting article, which details a lot of information about NPR's online activities. I can't help but thinking they're doing a rather more interesting job than we're doing in the UK. We should learn from them.
The BBC World Service now looks pretty on Freeview [Earshot]
…which is a nice thing. Not sure everything in there works very well, but it's a vast improvement from a dull static blue screen.
Save Our Sounds [BBC Radio Labs]
A blog from @radiokate explaining the deal behind BBC Save Our Sounds. Quite an interesting idea.
More New-Media Tripe [Radio InSights]
Quite an amusing piece of article ripping-apart. The Radio Insights team find it really galling that someone who has written for a magazine is slagging off radio. (That someone, Bob Garfield, is also a radio presenter – presenting On The Media for NPR, incidentally).
BBC doubles iPlayer radio quality, DAB weeps [Crave at CNET UK]
Crave don't understand that the future of radio is multiplatform, and it's not a fight between one platform and another. But I like the graphic. :)
A whole lot of nothing [Welcome To The North]
An excellent interview with Toby Foster of BBC Radio Sheffield, and Doncaster's new mayor. Toby does an excellent job here of asking simple questions which fluster and, eventually, completely embarrass the new mayor. A classic radio interview.
Advertising and that
On becoming a household name [Seth's Blog]
Seth points out that clickthrough isn't the only thing that's important when it comes to advertising online. Which is good news.
Brain-dead marketing? [Memex 1.1]
John doesn't like this biscuit's name. I rather like it. It's certainly different.
Miscellaneous and that
Not Playing Ball [Twitter Blog]
Twitter to launch 'verified real names' shortly. Which is rather good, since I've been doing this (with much success) in Media UK for quite some time now. It'll be excellent to be able to use Twitter's verification, perhaps, in future.
The First SoundPour [SoundPour]
A set of people listen to The Beatles (yay), their Revolver album (possibly the best one) (yay), drinking Chimay (yay), and use my photo to illustrate it (yay). I don't really understand what else is going on.
Postbox
A rather nicer version of Mozilla Thunderbird, for the Mac and Windows (sadly, not Ubuntu). Looks nice in Windows 7, that much I can tell you.
The Secret Life of the Airport [BBC FOUR]
A rather beautiful photograph on this programme (the one of Terminal 5). I waive the attribution licence for my employer. I'm rather pleased I spent a bit of time photographing Heathrow Terminal 5, my photos get used an awful lot.
This is a tidied and edited list of my Delicious links from June 11th to June 19th. You can subscribe to this list, live, via rss.
