Links of the year 2008 - Part 3
by Martin Belam, 3 January 2009
I've been publishing a series of posts rounding up my favourite links from last year - here is the selection from June and July 2008.
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"Prince covers Radiohead at a live show. Fans record the performance and put it on Youtube. Prince demands that the videos be taken down. Thom Yorke requests they be unblocked. So who's right? Who cares. The notion of 'copyright' is officially useless."
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Sometimes the lo-fi sitemap is still a winner when it comes to navigation...
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Mike Butcher aims both barrels at the BBC, with a heathy sideswipe at 'whining' commercial newspapers for good measure :-)
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Unless they are actually forcing conversions a la Spain in 1501, I don't see how they can be breaking a law. Foolish, perhaps, but not illegal. Another one for the "Personally, I think you're bonkers, but I'd defend your right to be bonkers" file.
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"London mayor Boris Johnson has already started removing all sign of the previous administration, changing the logo and branding that characterised Ken's reign. The previous black and red London slogan is now a Tory blue". It seems I was right.
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"I was probably still addressing BBC local radio's previous target audience, Dave and Sue, an imaginary couple of whom we were given detailed profiles and photographs". Martin Kelner is not a fan of audience personas it seems...
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"In the 80s I was never attracted to the music of Flock of Seagulls or Human League. Now I know why. The maths says all that asymmetry adds up to a fashion disaster". There's nothing shallow about judging music on the haircut, kids, its maths at work.
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"Matthew Johnston has a flickrset up of comparisons between Liberty City landmarks and those of its inspiration, New York". I so wanted to do something similar when I was in Miami, but I didn't have the time - or the local knowledge.
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D'oh the humanity! The BBC Internet blog references my post about the BBC and external links...and originally omits to include a link to currybetdotnet ;-)
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"One of the diseases of this age is the multiplicity of books; they doth so overcharge the world that it is not able to digest the abundance of idle matter that is every day hatched and brought forth into the world"
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Asda refuse to print baby snap of son for 21st birthday cake... because he's naked | Mail Online - 2008-06-26Best comment: "It may seem over the top, but I think it's necessary. What's to stop a paedophile from bringing in a naked baby picture and having it put on a cake? While there is nothing sordid about a naked baby bum, the line has to be drawn somewhere."
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I can see how 66p is *cheaper* than 79p, but better value? For my iTunes download I get a song I can listen to over and over again. For my 66p forced donation to the Queen, I just get an old lady living in a castle don't I?
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Generates over 450 comments in 12 hours and thus proves the point...
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Amongst a very good summary of the issues discussed at Broadcasting House the other week Steve calls me out for watching the football.
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A story surely only published to make sure it reaches the front page of Digg and sits in the BBC's 'Most read' list for weeks and weeks and weeks...no pic though :-(
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"When Private Eye dabbles in the internet the result is usually both comic and alarming. It’s like having a blacksmith repair your car; it’s amusing to watch him bash around aimlessly for a minute but you soon start to worry he might do some real damage".
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"Figures released today by BARB confirm that Journey's End was the UK's most watched television programme of the week with 10.57 million viewers. It is the first time in Doctor Who's 45 year history that the programme has achieved this position". Congrats
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"They were human beings, young lads who were actually brave enough to make the choice to go and fight in the cruellest conditions for their country and for our freedom". Fans trip to pay respects to the Orient team that signed up to fight in World War I.
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Blog Her Conference: Is the BlogHer Conference Guilty of Sex Discrimination | Graywolf's SEO Blog - 2008-07-21I usually find Michael Gray absolutely spot on the money but I think this "uppity women having their own conference is sexist" rant about the Blogher conference is the kind of drivel I'd expect to see spouted in the comments of the Daily Express site...
Next...
Tomorrow I'll have the final part of my links round-up of 2008.