• WordPress 2.6 [WordPress development blog]
• iPhone 3G: fail [James Cridland]
• Geeks make public presentations fun again [ReadWriteWeb]
• The Royal Mail PAF, that old chestnut [Rob Dunfey]
• An ESB for the Web? [O'Reilly Radar]
• Media 100 2008 [Guardian]

With less than a week to go, half the tickets for the UK’s first WordCamp have been sold.

The planning and organisation for the event has been run on open source lines, using a core combination of wiki and mailing list, leading to the active involvement of many volunteers.

In particular, from my point of view as WordCamp UK coordinator, the substantial work involved in organising the event has been spread amongst a number of mailing list subscribers.

This has been particularly useful in making arrangements for staging the WordCamp in Birmingham – even more useful when taking into account I’m based in London!

The running order is nearing its final version, and I’m not expecting further significant changes to be made.

Admission to WordCamp UK 2008 is only by tickets purchased online – so book now to ensure your place!

• Guardian Media Group buys paidContent for $30 million [All Things Digital]
• Digital TV takeup growth continues [Guardian]
• Flickr on TV [BBCi Labs]
• Phoenix diary: Mission to Mars [BBC]
• The Faces likely to reunite [NME]

Commercial radio companies Global Radio and GCap have announced staff cuts impacting on radio stations across the country.

If approved by regulators, Global Radio will take over GCap to form the UK’s largest commercial radio group.

The level of cuts in the group does not augur well for the future.

The Guardian’s Organ Grinder pretty much reflects my view on the subject.

A twenty word summary by Digitagit, in a comment to the Guardian piece, gets right to the point.

Do they not understand that music radio is now much more about what’s in between the music?

If stations just play music, the audience will go elsewhere, either to other stations that invest in production, or to their own playlists using a myriad of digital devices.

• The Yahoo demolition derby [All Things Digital]
• Yahoo! search BOSS [Yahoo Developer Network]
• Take your chance to free public data [Guardian]
• More online government innovation [Dave Briggs]
• We all depend on the web working [Guardian]

• Call for web to stay open for all [BBC]
• NBC uses Olympics as research lab [Variety]
• Open Tech 2008 [Jeremy Keith]
• Commons motion to free postcodes [Puffbox]
• What to do? [Cameron Hunt]
• ‘Linking here’ lists with Google feed API [Puffbox]
• Opera Web Standards Curriculum [Opera]

• Portable Social Networks, the building blocks of a social web [Digital Web Magazine]
• YouTube/Viacom privacy followup (and what Google should do) [Dan Brickley]
• Release early, release often is not as easy as it seems [Chris Heilmann]
• The Clangers’ guide to Microformats [Drew McLellan]

• Step by step, the BBC is moving towards a post-licence fee world [Guardian]
• Media big-wigs decamp to Sun Valley [Guardian PDA]
• The Yahoo circus pulls into Sun Valley next week [All Things Digital]
• STS-125: The final visit [NASA]
• Franz Ferdinand – The Adelphi, Hull [NME]