Archive for January, 2008
Enders DAB Report
MediaGuardian loves a good anti-DAB story, and this one is off the back a recent study from Enders. I’m going to do a bit more about all the things that Enders have got wrong, but in the meantime there’s quite a good post at Transdiffusion that begins to describe the inaccuracies.
Last.fm Frees Up the Music
Interesting to hear that Last.fm has just announced that it’s streaming full tracks, on-demand, for free. It means that any last.fm visitor will be able to stream a track on its system (and it seems to have all the majors signed) up to three times. Money-wise they’re profit-sharing the advertising money with the record companies. [...]
DAB Digital Radio Christmas Sales
Image from: salimfadhley Even before such things as WiFi and DAB appeared, Christmas has always been the time of the year that the largest numbers of radios are sold. I have no real idea why. Whilst i’m sure some are bought for Christmas, they can’t all be, can they? Maybe it’s the present people like [...]
Mahalo
From an uninterested, under-informed observer’s perspective, Dave Winer seems to be raking over old ground with self-publicist extraordinare Jason Calacanis over Jason’s human-powered search-engine Mahalo. If you haven’t visited Mahalo, they basically take search terms like Guitar Hero III Cheats, New York City Hotels or MacBook Air and instead of creating software that finds lots [...]
A Challenge
My friend Martin dropped me an email this week: I wouldn’t normally e-mail where you might not know the person concerned, but this case is different I think. Please read on in case you feel inspired. A friend of mine from my old firm in Manchester, Anthony Taylor, has recently started a solo row across [...]
Wi-Fi, Wi-Max and the Radio
Often when I talk about DAB Digital Radio, people bring up the internet and ask “well, won’t it all be over from DAB soon?”. The things I generally say in response, are: 1. I think it’s quite surprising that even though Broadband has 50% penetration and it’s pretty much standard in offices, radio listening on-line [...]
Cloverfield Review
Thanks to Ambrose, I got to see the new JJ Abrams film Cloverfield last night. You might have seen the first trailer if you went to see Transformers. In it, you’re watching a party filmed by one of the partygoers on DV, then suddenly bang, they all rush outside and find the severed head of [...]
Steve Jobs from Apple’s Keynote (in 60secs)
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Moving Wallpaper and Echo Beach
ITV’s commissioners are either geniuses are fools. You may have heard about ITV1′s new drama double – Moving Wallpaper and Echo Beach. The first is a behind-the-scenes look at the new ITV1 sitcom Echo Beach and the second is, er, that soap opera Echo Beach. Moving Wallpaper describes the artificial, ego-driven world of the soap [...]
New Capital 95.8 Website
Interesting to see the new Capital 95.8 website go live this evening. Whilst it is using roughly the same structure of the previous sites (and the new One Network sites), it’s had a wash and brush up, and at least works in Firefox properly for the first time! Now, radio websites are, by and large, [...]