These are my links for September 23rd through September 30th:
- Lily Allen ‘quits music’ after abuse over file-sharing fight – A sad and mixed story, heady with pop stars and government spin doctors…Lily Allen, the supposed MySpace heroine, blogger and Twitter, claims to be knocking music on head due to abuse to her support of Peter Mandelson's 'three strikes and your out' policy regarding illegal downloading. Her siding with the music biz and government probably hasn't done her fanbase much digital-indie cred, but that's the problem with making file-sharing illicit – it's an industry built on getting into trouble with authority.
- Thompson signals review will reduce size of BBC – Looks like the Beeb are publicly planning for the savage budget cuts likely to follow in what Director General Mark Thompson describes as a move from 'both-and' to 'either or'. The additional digital channels and web services, I wonder, if will be likely to be viewed as less essential. I suspect younger audiences will keep their digital, olders shows will see web tie-ins cut back.
These are my links for September 16th through September 23rd:
These are my links for September 16th from 10:43 to 16:13:
- Which UK city is the most creative? Nottingham? – Matt Davies from Attitude Design on why Nottingham's is a burgeoning city for creative and media with a bit of help from, and a name check for, our new site CreativeNottingham.com (launching Sept 21).
- EM Media receives £500K funding – Hoorah, at last some new funding for my home region for screen sector in East Midlands. WIll be keen to see what their plans are for it and if it's an extension of previous fund which were more big pots of cash into film and games production. Let's hope there's some skills benefits and smaller, more innovative investments attached.
- New Bham Council website "an expensive disaster" – Ross Reily comments on the £2.7 million Birmingham Council website which lacks quality design, functionality, security and move forward little in online services or e-democracy (and no RSS either) which ultimately means the citizens of Birmingham are missing out. Managed by Capita.
These are my links for September 11th from 02:06 to 17:36:
These are my links for September 3rd from 11:20 to 11:25:
