Web + broadcasting

• TV consumers ‘do not understand’ digital message [Guardian]
• What does Microsoft really want? [All Things Digital]
• Yahoo’s executive tumult: can they make yogurt out of sour milk? [paidContent]
• Microformats and RDFa and RDF [BBC Radio Labs]

Tickets for WordCamp UK 2008 are now on sale.

Two types of ticket are available:

• Standard tickets at £35.
• Microsponsor tickets at £70 for those who want to contribute more to the event.

Many thanks to Casper Aremi for setting up and running the ticketing system.

Went to the Yahoo SearchMonkey Developer Event last night.

Presentations by the developers of SearchMonkey was followed by a lively debate.

To quote from the SearchMonkey developer home page:

Using SearchMonkey, developers and site owners can use structured data to make Yahoo! Search results more useful and visually appealing, and drive more relevant traffic to their sites.

SearchMonkey seems to be one of few innovative developments in search over the past few years.

Looking forward to meeting again those from the London web development community I shared a beer with last night at this great event.

• Euro 2008 semi-final thriller hit by TV blackouts [Guardian]
• BBC PSB review submisson: hands off the licence fee! [Guardian]
• The great BBC Techcrunch debate [James Cridland]
• Universal Edit Button [Universal Edit Button]

• Nokia in full buy-out of Symbian [BBC]
• @Future of Journalism: Jeff Jarvis on 10 questions we should be asking now [Guardian]
• Fresh thinking! [One Golden Square]
• HTML5: Linking up [Eric Meyer]

I gave a presentation on WordCamp UK last night at the June meeting of London Bloggers.

The presentation [pdf] seemed to go down postively at the well attended meeting at The Coach and Horses in Soho.

Afterwards Alexandra, Andy, Tim and myself made a detailed examination of the various beverages available from behind the bar from the vantage point of the Lego-like seating outside the pub.

• BBC plans £68m network of local video news websites [Guardian]
• The perils of choice on the radio [James Cridland]
• The power of postcodes [Puffbox]
• Open source hardware [The Economist]

The venue for WordCamp UK has been changed – it’s now going to be at The Studio in Birmingham.

This is very close to the previously planned venue and so should not prove to be a problem for those travelling from outside Birmingham.

Details of how to book tickets for the event, to be held 19-20 July 2008, will be released shortly.

For full details go to the WordCamp UK wiki.