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Microphone Elastics by Stuart "Eddie" Edwards - One Golden Square

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 07:17:16 -0800

From the page: "Recently, "Eddie" from our engineering department described in intricate detail, what he had to do to music playing on our phone system. That proved so popular, we thought you'd appreciate his recent detailed note about how to place elastics on microphones should you find them tangled."

TheWayoftheWeb & FriendsReunited advert - wtf?

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 03:18:45 -0800

From the page: "So FriendsReunited is now owned by Brightsolid, a subsidiary of comic publisher DC Thompson, which paid ��25 million in August but still hasn't added the sites to the official website. And their first move is to buy traditional TV advertising?"

TheWayoftheWeb & UK Govt - tackling piracy but in court on privacy!

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 10:13:40 -0700

From the page: "Quite funny seeing which stories followed each other on PaidContent this morning �" one story is following the response from UK ISPs to Lord Mandelson's proposal to disconnect illegal filesharers , but that immediately followed that the EC has set a two month deadline to overhaul UK rules on digital privacy.Or the UK Govt will end up in court."

Radio looks to the future & Adam Westbrook

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 04:32:34 -0700

From the page: "I've written on more than one occasion about my concerns radio in the UK is settling in as a back-seat passenger in the digital revolution.

With print and TV and online finding new ways to innovate all the time, the radio bods have turned up the 'oehits and memories', closed their eyes and pretended it was still the 1990s."

From the page: "I've written on more than one occasion about my concerns radio in the UK is settling in as a back-seat passenger in the digital revolution.

With print and TV and online finding new ways to innovate all the time, the radio bods have turned up the 'hits and memories', closed their eyes and pretended it was still the 1990s."

140Char & Listorious is quick off the mark to find best Twitter Lists

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 04:31:40 -0700

From the page: "As a user of Twitter, I'm undecided whether lists will be a positive thing on balance, but as a Twitter observer it's one of the biggest steps they've made in a long time towards making money."

Threat to Mandelson: if you attack peer-to-peer filesharing, we will wage digital warfare against you - Telegraph Blogs

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 06:44:14 -0700

From the page: "Hannah Nicklin describes herself as 'brightly coloured playwright, tech-enthusiast, blogger and academic'. Among her interests are 'the democratising power of the wiki-ethic'. And she is a strong defender of the contested Amendment 138/46 to the European Union Telecoms Package, which declares internet access as a fundamental right"
She has just written an open letter to Lord Mandelson, the Business Secretary, who has been considering legislation that would block the internet accounts of copyright violaters. And she's not exactly in a mood to pull her punches:

RAJAR - One Golden Square

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 02:03:14 -0700

From the page: "Absolute Radio is now the first radio group to hit the 50% national digital listening penetration target set out in the Digital Britain report earlier this year. Digital innovation is core to the station's business and Absolute Radio continues to lead the radio industry. The station recorded 51.5% of the station�'s national listening on a digital platform, compared to the industry average of just 21.1%."

TheWayoftheWeb & My most popular posts for October...

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:04:34 -0700

From the page: "There's just a few days left in the month, and a combination of work, family illnesses and Forza Motorsport 3
are limiting my blogging, so I thought I'd take a look at which posts were most popular this month:"

140Char & Which newspaper mentions Twitter the most? (UK)

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 07:31:50 -0700

From the page: "Although Ashton Kutcher has people following him on Twitter than the entire UK news industry, in terms of online readership, the UK news industry has pretty good reach, with The Telegraph, The Guardian and The Daily Mail all attracting over 30 million unique users in September 2009.

So I thought it would be interesting to see exactly which ones were mentioning Twitter the most �" and to keep it simple and relevant for everyone, I decided to only use their search functionality to work it out:

So which newspapers have mentioned Twitter the most?"

140Char & Don't write Yammer off yet

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 02:02:19 -0700

From the page: "This is the first post by new contributor Lauren Fisher, who specialises in online PR and social media at Simply Zesty - and can be found on Twitter at @laurenfisher.
Yammer seemingly suffered the fate of many internet startups. It benefited from the initial buzz of being a new brand, with the handy association of both microblogging and launching at TC50 , but failed to retain the traffic. The site traffic for the "Twitter for companies" has been largely unstable, certainly not following an upward trend, failing to get anywhere near the initial 200k visits it reached on its launch in September 2008."