Photo taken this week by mike138. Used under licence. Photos for my Delicious postings like this will be taken from Flickr’s ‘interesting feed’ for the day concerned. Seemed like a good idea.

Postalicious
One of the reasons I stopped posting my Del.icio.us links to this blog was the unpleasant way that it rendered, and the lack of any control I had with regard to timing. This hopefully fixes this.

Meet Mr. TechCrunch UK - ScobleShow
In the latest of my “let’s mention Robert Scoble because he normally adds your mention to his linkblog”, a serious one - Robert interviews the excellent Mike Butcher, who’s looking very well in this video. I last saw Mike a good eight months ago.

Ubuntu
Recently added it to my normal workhorse laptop (an HP Compaq tc4200). I wouldn’t say it worked totally instantly out of the box, but after a little tinkering, it’s doing everything I want except print, which is a good start, and I’ve still Windows on the machine if I need it.

The UCC Journalism Society Conference 2008 (my speaking events)
Delighted to be speaking on “the place of traditional media in the Web 2.0 world” at this conference for University College Cork: under the auspices of my Media UK work.

An ego blog-search
I wanted to see who was blogging about me, but I had problems with Google Blog Search returning my own blog entries. I’ve worked out how to stop that with -blogurl, like so: “James Cridland” -blogurl:james.cridland.net -blogurl:www.flickr.com

v-moda “Vibe Duo” headphones for the iPhone
My Christmas present to myself was an iPhone: and these are just excellent headphones - way better sound than the original crappy ones, and with a headset mike, so I can still use it as a phone. Mind, damn expensive.

ShinyRed - 10 blogs to read in 2008
Nine blogs you might actually want to read; and one ridiculous suggestion. But it’s very nice of them, so thank you, ShinyRed.

In this excellent series of posts at the BBC, Martin says “the BBC was accused of artificially inflating the ranking of BBC content within the results.”

I’ve tried to post a reply, but the BBC’s blog infrastructure is creaking at the seams at the moment, and just sits there marked “loading” (and has finally given me an error). It does this from time to time; I think Richard Bacon’s probably breaking it. So, instead, my comment would have been…

Lest we ever forget our mistakes, the BBC search engine (the equivalent of ‘all the web’ today) actually offered you “BBC Radio 3″ when you searched for “Classic FM”; which was explained away to this vulture-eyed reader at the time as a “technical glitch”… - clearly, harrumph, it must have been… ;)

As someone who now works with the rest of the team who bring you the search stuff, I’m impressed at the work they do - and yes, the attempts they’re making to tweak the results to give you the right information. An “all the web” search for Classic FM now returns the rather amusing phrase “The BBC recommends Classic FM”. Who’d have thought it…

Photo: Michelle Callinan. Used under licence. For the second time…