A trawl around the web, September 19th to October 18th
Posted on Sunday, October 19th, 2008 at 10:21am. #
Journalistic coverage
The perfect combination of content and format can improve radio efficiency by 30%
A piece translated from the Spanish of my speech in Zaragosa. Apparently, I'm "One of the major world experts on new technologies associated with radio", which is pretty cool.
Radio comes best out of the crisis
A translated version of a piece in the Norwegian equivalent of Campaign – including the marvellously inexplicable line: "The big question is who should receive the greatest smell."
'Radio heads' take good look at changing face of medium
In the mid-1990s, James Cridland was the first radio presenter to read out his email address on air. "It was 100112.2320@compuserve. com," he said yesterday. "Funny enough, I didn't get that many mails." – grin
Ofcom and Channel 4: DAB is toast… [ofcomwatch]A typically blinkered and lazy post of the kind we've seen all week – even quoting Channel 4 and Ofcom specifically saying that DAB is -not- toast… but the truth hardly seems to matter these days…A hilarious joke! (See the comments) Ah, my sides!
Fun thing
Radio Times 11 October 2008
Adam Bowie turns TV reviewer, in a novel new format. Enjoy it while BBC Worldwide don't send him a cease-and-desist.
Useful websites
Qwitter is about to break up a lot of twitter ‘friends’ [TechCrunch UK/IE]
I don't agree with the analysis here, but this type of service is really interesting – catching why people stop using your service is just as useful as getting new 'customers'. Nice. And a really nice looking site, too…
Voucher Codes – Exclusive Discount Codes and Discount Vouchers
Neat idea for the credit crunch – and very well executed site (with some visual humour, too). Consider this a bookmark.
Missed the point thing
Seth's Blog: The growing productivity divide
Good questions from Seth. He missed "does your blog accept comments?" – his doesn't, which is sad, since he's not understood the two-way world he's in. He's announcing, not communicating.
This is a tidied and edited list of my del.icio.us postings from September 19th to October 18th. You can subscribe to this list, live, via rss.
‘Blinkered and lazy’ — Assume you will say that to my face, huh? Cannot wait for that moment.
As I said on my blog in response to your childish ‘is this the same DAB’ comment: I was commenting on Ofcom’s licencing process, not making a statement about DAB’s commercial prospects. I don’t particularly care about DAB as much as you — that’s clear — you work for a state-owned firm that puts its content on the platform.
So if as you claim the truth matters to you more than assembling your own straw men to knock down, re-read my post for what it was (the five paragraphs where I discuss Ofcom’s licencing process and the one paragraph containing a joke about selling my toaster) and stop putting words in my mouth.
See you on the block…