links for 2008-03-31

UK Podcasters Association – afternoon notes – blog – James Cridland
To a really good afternoon hosted by the UK Podcasters Association. Very grateful to have been invited by the inestimable Dean Whitbread. These are my rough (and doubtless wrong) notes;
(tags: ukpa org music podcasting rights notes)

Decoding Ivan Lewis MP
It’s rarer for a minister to do [...]

Quote Of The Weekend

“…how come everyone I know, knows Ewan?”Anon.

links for 2008-03-29

Richard BRanson Dies Laughing (Daily Mash)
A company spokesman said: “Something must have set him off yesterday afternoon. I called him at around 4pm and he could hardly speak. At one point I think I heard him say he’d pissed himself.
(tags: richardbranson virgin ba britishairways heathrow terminal5 baa)

Superfortress!
I rolled into a left turn, looked all around [...]

What I Thought of my March Conferences and Events (Part One)

O’Reilly’s Emerging Technology 2008
A definite change of gears from Tim O’Reilly’s flagship conference – in previous years Etech has felt very much like a number of cliques who have moved down for an Easter holiday from San Francisco. Not this year, although lots of Bay Area people were around the atmosphere was much better, there [...]

Barcamp Scotland 2008 – A Podcast Recap

A few things got backed up in my ‘to do’ queue with both the trip to the US, and some server / database problems over at The Podcast Network – so here, slightly later than expected, is the Tech Conference Show’s podcast report from Barcamp Scotland.

Barcamp Scotland 2008 – (MP3 31.7 mb, 34 minutes 37 [...]

My Top Things To Take Away From March

So I’m now back in Edinburgh, after the crazy four weeks of travel (incidentally, if you call the US mobile number I’ve been giving out, it will no longer reach me, I believe it is back in the hands of the AT&T press relations department), and while I’ll talk about the events and suchlike later [...]

Happy (Belated) Birthday War

Mitch Benn sums it up far better than anyone else…
Happy Birthday War by Mitch Benn

links for 2008-03-23

The Royalty Scam
The first legal agreement that they enter into as artists will occur when they click to accept the terms and conditions of the site that will host their music…we need to establish the principle of artists’ rights throughout the Internet.
(tags: billybrag music copyright bebo socialnetwork myspace unsigned tnc)

Just Make Sure You Use “The Chain”

W00t!!!
BBC TV secure a five year TV deal to carry Formula 1 from next year. Yes there are a lot of questions in my mind, such as will any of the ITV team make the jump as well, will anyone (ahem…) be left behind. But theres only one thing to demand…
Will they use “The Chain” [...]

links for 2008-03-20

More Bloggers Raising Money. Here Come The Politics. And Here Comes My Rant.
An early push can take a post and make it a headline on TechMeme, which leads to page views and notice by sponsors. But since blogging is almost by definition a conversation between bloggers, fights tend to break out over emotional issues. Cliques [...]

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