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Digital Consultant links for November 28th through November 29th

These are my links for November 28th through November 29th:

Nott Tuesday December 8th – I'll be at the next Nott Tuesday event, the network for digital and tech companies in Nottingham, talking about plans for our website for Nottingham creatives: www.creativenottingham.com . See you there…
Happy ‘Quit MySpace’ Day – Oct 24 2010, online music expert Andrew Dubber believes should be 'quit MySpace day' – as the social network has failed to exploit its potential as the place every band in the world is, and provide the right tools for artists to monetize and grow their network. Interesting group discussion on other services and tools musicians are using.
Pub ‘fined £8k’ for Wi-Fi copyright infringement – The legitimacy of upholding the Digital Economy bill for downloading grows more complex, as a wifi hotspot own face fines over end-users downloading copyrighted material. This poses serious issues: if providers are punished, then libraries, business centres and enterprising spaces providing wifi services for business users will be less likely to operate, moving us further away from the pervasive internet or 'cloud' environment of the future.

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 11th from 02:06 to 17:36:

TweetDeck opens to MySpace, aims to become social media hub – Rather than another tech feature update – this is quite significant: TweetDeck are now enabling updates from Facebook and MySpace, thus becoming a social media aggregator (akin to Friendfeed), a key part of the web 2.0 – and future web 3.0 – experience.
Google planning micro-payments for publishers – An unexpected life-raft – Google are developing a pay-per-view style sytem for online content – but for the newspapers and big print-to-online producer, will it be enough to float a sinking ship?
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