A trawl around the web, June 2nd to June 9th
Posted on Tuesday, June 9th, 2009 at 8:12pm. #
A bit of radio
BBC – iPlayer Message Board – Radio
A place to discuss IP reception of all radio services from the BBC. Which I dip into when time allows.
BBC iPlayer gets a little more radio [BBC Radio Labs]
A little update to the BBC iPlayer. Which is nice. And a blog post from me on there. Which is also nice. I use the words "find, play, share" as well as "making the unmissable unmissable". I must surely win the prize for most on-message blog post.
Guardian’s Radio Listings Get Worse [adambowie.com]
Adam Bowie notes a marked reduction in radio listings in the Guardian. This is either a bad thing, or a realisation by The Guardian that a programme listing that just simply lists presenter names is a pointless waste of paper and ink. Perhaps. I don't really know.
A bit of other things
Spymaster — For your eyes only
What a good game. Simple, but it works for some reason: really rather addictive.
Photography Banned in Greenwich Foot Tunnel [IanVisits]
Madness. And I've taken photographs there (there’s one above this text), and nobody seemed to mind. "It's political correctness gone mad".
How to be a Sky News iPhone reporter [NevilleHobson.com]
Neville tips the wink on Sky News's iPhone app – rather good, too, with some video as well as a way of getting content direct from Sky's audience. A nice idea, and one that should be quite good for the channel.
Deeper or wider [Seth Godin]
A really interesting blog post – which would tend to pose the question that simply designing for 'the majority' isn't always a good idea. Rather worthwhile reading.
Worst quarter for newspapers: Sales dive $2.6B [Reflections of a Newsosaur]
Scroll down to the graph in this page. Look at it, and then wonder whether any newspapers will ever survive. That must be the scariest graph you've ever seen, no? (via <a href='http://www.lostremote.com'>Lost Remote</a>)
Page Speed [Google]
A new tool from Google to test page speed. Sigh. I'd better get busy – reading Wired (US) today, I noticed that the speed of a page download directly contributes to 'ad quality' (and thus, I'm going to guess, pagerank). So, better get working on shrinking those pages…
whatIdo [YouTube]
This is quite fascinating. A television subtitle "respeaker" in action, subtitling a Breakfast bulletin for Points West (which is done by a known voice re-reading what the newsreader is saying, and that going into voice recognition). From Martin Deutsch's commentary (on Media UK): "Out of shot, he’s hitting a keyboard to change the text colour and position of text on screen. He’s saying ‘macro’ to tell the text to speech software to insert certain words, presumably where it wouldn’t be able to work out the correct spelling from the context. " Worthwhile mentioning that, unlike any other broadcaster in the world, the BBC subtitles 100% of its television output. Yes, even BBC News Channel at 4.10am (which is done by people in Australia, I understand).
This is a tidied and edited list of my Delicious links from June 2nd to June 9th. You can subscribe to this list, live, via rss. The photograph above is a now banned photo of Greenwich Foot Tunnel.
