Hello, lazy Sunday morning – and hello, stuff to read.

This week was the new RAJAR figures – great news for radio, as we know. Matt Deegan has some thoughts, as does Adam Bowie. Paul Easton has some whizzy graphs for the London market.

A while back, I wondered aloud whether radio presenters should promote their own Twitter accounts on-air. I said that they shouldn’t – and I still believe it. Phil Edmonds seems to agree, and gives a few examples. A radio station to get into legal hot water from a radio presenter’s tweets? I give it a few months.

Phil also points out, gently, that he’d have liked to have used an image of David Cameron in Absolute Radio’s studios, but couldn’t find a suitably licensed photograph, so had to use one of the BBC’s instead. If you’re taking press shots, slinging them onto Flickr and licensing them correctly is probably a good plan to help us bloggers. And it’s not as if Absolute Radio aren’t all about sharing: they had the BBC round this week (I recognise some faces in the photo!)

Talking about Flickr photos, this one is mine. I added that to a BBC list while I was staff, which means they don’t have to credit me, which is a bit of a shame; would be great if they’d be able to use the wealth of Creative Commons too. (Hey – that’s an https:// link to a BBC programmes page. Wonder how long they’ve supported that?)

Austereo’s Corey Layton shares a good billboard, seen in the US, about the dangers of tailgating; while Fred Jacobs points out that social networking is much more popular with women than men: so why are the UK’s women-focused stations not actually very good at this, I wonder?

I discovered a neat service called followup.cc this week. If someone emails you to ask to do something on tuesday, forward it to tuesday@followup.cc and it’ll remind you, by email, on Tuesday morning. Very simple, very straightforward: might help me get to inbox zero one of these years.

Absolute’s Llia and Tony share this rather excellent selection of angry, irascible memos from Tiger Oil. These are an excellent collection of completely insane communications from boss to staff; well worth a read.

You can follow my shared items by following james.cridland@gmail.com in Google Reader (I really ought to move accounts shortly) and I’m currently following over 100 people back, so thanks for giving me something to read! I wonder whether the new Amazon Kindle I’ve rather foolishly ordered will work well with Google Reader online?

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