Photo: Steve Rhodes, of Bank of America staff trying to stop him taking a photograph in a public place (the pavement). Take on March 19th. Used under licence.

PhotoShopped
Ack. Very splendid blog showing really quite awful photoshop work. Much amusement.

XMPP Pubsub Radio Playlist Bot
Interesting - an XMPP "now playing" bot for a radio station. Not quite convinced it works like this, but XMPP is certainly worth looking at for a distributed way of doing that type of information. Much better than regularly pinging a server. via kael

How to Look and Feel Like a Complete Idiot
Amusing comment from Curtis Poe (a BBC chap). Via Alan Connor.

A Copenhagen beer map
I personally recommend B and J in this map - both great places to eat and drink some unusual beer. And what a good idea.

How do you get your radio these days?
Word Magazine: "We're thinking of doing a piece in the magazine about the state of radio. How are you getting your radio? And what are you listening to?" - interesting comments!

Math links for fun and charity « Let?s play math!
Use of one of my photos: this time a recent one from the London Transport museum. Nice to see it used in a totally different situation.

TechCrunch UK » News Round
What a brilliant new service Mike's started. Excellent, I hope he continues.

This is a tidied and edited list of my del.icio.us postings from February 29th to March 20th. You can subscribe to this list, live, via rss.

A view of a power plant in Houston, taken on February 20th. Photo: Louis Vest. Used under licence.

Google Calendar on your website using PHP and stuff
If you use my code for this, you might like to note that there are quite a few contributed bugfixes, which fix, er, some bugs.

Has digital radio had its day?
I'm quoted in this piece. Executive summary: "no".

The BBC iPlayer and buzz monitoring in action
Nixon McInnes decides that I might know what I'm doing, and that "the BBC still kick ass", which is very nice of him. Must get back to the kicking.

Is Radio Suffering From Too Little Research?
Self-serving post from Edison Media Research. Yes, research is good - but as Henry Ford said, "if I asked my customers what they wanted, they'd have asked for a faster horse".

Adrian Fitch's spring training
The Fitchster uses one of my photographs, and concerningly writes about 'going hard', but it turns out it's about cycling.

Another of my photos
… a rather old manual montage, originally shot on film would you believe, used in this blog posting

Intempo Rebel Kills Radio DJs (Gizmodo UK)
"A music sampling system that, once tuned into an FM station, records the 40 most played tracks and then edits out the DJ chatter and the ads." Nurse? The copyright!

This is a tidied and edited list of my del.icio.us postings from February 15th to February 23rd. You can subscribe to this list, live, via rss.

Annie Mole, the writer of the rather splendid Going Underground’s blog was kind enough to invite me and a bunch of other Flickr’rs to the London Transport Museum today. (I didn’t think Annie was her real name, but she wore it on her name badge and everything, so it must be.)

Quite scary, actually. I was concerned that I didn’t have a decent-enough camera, having only got a little point and click Fuji. So I felt a little overawed, particularly seeing Nikki had turned up with a posh camera, and Steve had even bothered to turn up with a set of lenses for his. (”I’m not spending money on cameras any more, just glass”, he told me.) Going round the place therefore, I felt under some pressure to take some decent photos with some careful composition, rather than just snaps.

Well, I needn’t have worried. Plenty of people turned up with nothing better than my little snapper, and some apparently worse. Jag said afterwards that he’d simply turned up with his only camera, a Sony Ericsson phone, but his photos look pretty good for it. (Has to be said, I like fiddling with the settings on mine.)

Anyway, a jolly good day was had by all. Fellow beeboid Martin was there, so that was a good excuse for a beer afterwards with Phill (who, for someone who works for an accounting firm, takes some damn good photos). I didn’t have much time to chat with too many of the rest, but it was good to at least say hello to Mike (who helped organise it and also works for TrustedPlaces), Crash, Kradlum (who I think is getting an iPhone now and it’s all my fault), Meg who knows someone I work with, Lloyd Davis, Anne, who ran away when offered beer, and the other few who weren’t at my table afterwards and failed to swap Moo cards with me.

Well, all my photos are here (I say all my photos - that’s not quite true, since only about a third of my pictures made the cut), so see what you think. Have I captured, as I set out to do, something different about the place?

And an interesting comment by Kradlum afterwards (I know his real name, but if it’s not on Flickr, he mustn’t want people to know, hence my sticking to his Flickr name). He said that he didn’t start using Flickr for the social aspects of the website, but loves it because of that now. He doesn’t see the point of most social networking sites: but sees the point of Flickr.

Thanks to Annie for inviting me, and I’m now the proud owner of, among other things, a Flickr sticker, which I will be possibly ruining the PC at work with.

Interesting point, possibly to me only: in order to upload these photographs, I’ve had to boot up into Windows for the first time this year. The combination of Picasa and the Uploadr is rather too good for my Linux skills quite yet. It’s hateful in here. Looking forward to booting back into a proper operating system.)

Uploaded on 13 February 2008, this is a viewing platform in the war museum in Salford Quays. Photo by Mike Willshaw. Used under licence.

All this online sharing has to stop
It's ruining the motor mechanic industry. (No, really)

Flickr CC search
A quick page whipped up to help me find nice pictures for this blog - it searches all Flickr CC images together (which the Flickr UI won’t let me do).

Aussies Head to SXSW
A website using one of my photos, albeit only credited in the ALT tag (which isn’t cricket, by the way).

Oceanworld Manly
Another spotting of one of my photographs, complete with a link to my own website. How splendid.

Living on Earth: Swedish Body Heat
Sounds exciting, but actually it’s a radio feature about trains, aired on WBUR and other stations. They used one of my photographs to illustrate it on the web. Cool.

When statistics speak volumes
Good piece by Paul Smith on the press releases radio stations send out on figures day. Paul still owes me a fiver, by the way.

MMS For O2 iPhone
Just the thing I was looking for. Brilliant - now I can receive MMS on the iPhone. (Bizarre that it doesn’t support it…)

Twitter on the iPhone: Hahlo
While I’m on an iPhone theme, I use this for Twitter (it’s much prettier than it looks on this page). For this, and for the MMS thing, I’ve donated.

Keeping the conversation going
Nic Price activates a magic Wordpress plugin. So have I. Good idea.

Do We Have The Backup?
‘how it can be legitimate for a government to build roads but not to lay fibre is a mystery to me, and one that deserves to be questioned.’ Good point.

Big name #4
Hello, ladies. Contacting me has never been easier. Etc.

What HD-2s Don’t Stream And Should?
A rant about streaming. But included in this is interesting: WRXK’s HD2 channel (a new one only for HD radios) is entirely themed around their breakfast presenter. Neat idea. (Course, I was behind the ‘Virgin Radio Party Classics’ channel on Sky, voiced by Suggs.)

Interactivity: A lost opportunity for your station?
Some “isn’t the US behind the rest of us” type thoughts from Mark Ramsey; but some useful and interesting figures he quotes.

This is a tidied and edited list of my del.icio.us postings from January 26th to February 14th. You can subscribe to this list, live, via rss.

…make a backup of your Flickr photos.

If, like me, you have hundreds of photos on Flickr: get them all on a DVD and you’re sorted. I’ve just over 2,000 photos on Flickr, so it’ll cost $40 to get a DVD done and sent to me here in the UK. Not bad, really.

The amazing thing was how long it took to find the link, given I used them last year, too. It’s at www.flickr.com/do/more/ - and the company that does the DVD backups is Englaze.