Web + broadcasting

• BBC: ‘We’ll share expertise to save licence fee’ [Guardian]
• A public service media common platform? [Steve Bowbrick]
• The BBC’s fifteen web principles [Tom Loosemore]
• What do people have against URLs? [Tom Scott]
• Cool URIs don’t change [Tim Berners-Lee]

• Leaked report for NHS reveals full extent of Lorenzo slippage [Guardian]
• Awesome progress on video timestamping [mySociety]
• We’re all ops people now [Behind the Times]
• Plain old semantic HTML (POSH) [Microformats]
• One tonne ‘Baby’ marks its birth [BBC]

• Ofcom public service broadcasting review: deadline day [Guardian]
• Sketching in code: the magic of prototyping [A List Apart]
• Moving CSS typography forward [Clagnut]
• Steve Lipson – Record producer video feature [RecordProduction.com]

It looks like the Phoenix Mars Lander may have found ice on Mars.

If the discovery of ice is confirmed it would vastly increase the chances of finding life on Mars now or evidence of life in the past.

Such a discovery would be likely to lead to a step change in our perception of the universe.

• A new day [Jason Santa Maria]
• Internet audio [Guardian]
• DataPortability.org: Not just irrelevant, but bureaucratic and over-engineered [Tom Morris]
• Trevor Horn – Record producer video feature [RecordProduction.com]

Almost run over again – by a cycle on a footpath.

Following on from my previous cycle-related rant I ask the question – why do a small minority of cyclists break the law and tarnish the good name of cycling?

I refer such cyclists in the UK to Highway Code rule 64.

• ‘Oldest’ computer music unveiled [BBC]
• Flickr co-founders join mass exodus from Yahoo [TechCrunch]
• Tracking former Yahoo execs – where are they now? [TechCrunch]
• A year in, it’s clear: we got Brown wrong. He is simply not up to the job [Guardian]

• Sky wins TV licence cash to aid digital switchover [Guardian]
• Net video – how not to be like TV [Guardian]
• Why REST? [The Cafes]
• Representational state transfer (REST) [Wikipedia]
• 11 search trends that may disrupt Google [ReadWriteWeb]