A shop-front in Brussels, on 28th May. I took this. I liked the name, and the style of it.

Stuff about t’BBC

While the BBC fiddles, Britain’s innovation burns [Techcrunch UK]
Mike Butcher … worn record … growl … comments … Jem Stone … excellent … I have a rant too … Mike Butcher … lovely man … worn record …

Radiofall (XMPP-HTTP mashup) [mibly]
Another nice mashup of BBC data, this time using stuff from BBC Audio & Music Interactive's own XMPP services. Thank you @kael for your delicious tag - tag something for:jamescridland to ensure I see it…

Meet Olinda, trailblazer of the airwaves [Daily Telegraph]
Nice writeup of one of my team's projects. Still haven’t seen the radio itself, though. @tristanf, is it under your desk?

BBC radio on your iGoogle homepage
…an official gadget for your iGoogle homepage. Nicely done. I’ve added it. Why don’t you?

Other radio stuff

What's your name again? [Nik Goodman]
How to choose a good radio station name. Might be useful for a certain Mr David Lloyd. My comment on this posting doesn’t make a whole amount of sense, looking back at it. The Shizzle, I meant to say.

Radio and the digital native [RAB and RadioCentre]
Really good research from the RAB here (though my colleague Yasser tells me that it directly contradicts some BBC research, which is odd). I wonder how I can get on their mailing list, so I can be told of this stuff going up? There's some really good news for radio here.

Martin Kelner on the radio craze of 'testing tunes' [The Guardian]
"What radio does not want is me playing records I have brought in from home and swapping dubious jokes with my mates. So I have been encouraged by my employers to take early retirement from music radio." - bring this man to talkSPORT, I say. Not very loudly. UTV don’t listen to a word I say.

The Radio Hat [oddee.com]
Check out the radio hat - four or five magazine covers down. I want one. (Not)

Ego-search-a-go-go

James Cridland v Matt Deegan [feedcompare]
I win! Thanks to Matt Deegan for sending this to me. Nice website. (And his, too)

My full disclosure
…recently updated to include my work with the Radio Academy, and to stop claiming that I own shares in Emap plc. Shortly I won’t own shares in GCap Media plc either. I’ll just be stuck with UBC shares, and SMG. Never, ever, rely on me for investment advice. Unless you want to lose all your money.

This is a tidied and edited list of my del.icio.us postings from May 23rd to June 3rd. You can subscribe to this list, live, via rss.

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.

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.