The web & broadcasting blog

• Under the iPlayer hood for radio [BBC Radio Labs]
• On a different wavelength [Guardian]
• How much can a website cost? [Puffbox]
• In praise of the hyperlink [Jeremy Keith]
• Condé Nast to launch Wired in the UK [Guardian]
• Fire in the sky: Tunguska at 100 [BBC]

Seen today in Bentinck Street London W1.

Phoenix Lander scientists believe Martian soil appears to contain sufficient nutrients to support life.

Preliminary analysis on the planet’s soil have found it to be much more alkaline than expected.

In another development Phoenix has scraped to icy soil confirming that surface, subsurface and icy soil can be sampled at a single trench.

The mission appears to be making excellent progress, with the possibility of discovering evidence of Martian life either now, or in the past, seemingly increasing on a daily basis.

• The simple joys of web-scale identifiers [BBC Radio Labs]
• You may not be able to identify each of the 15,000 improvements to Firefox, but you’ll like version 3.0 [Guardian] (Agreed!)
• Integrating social media into a web content strategy [Digital Web Magazine]
• Jay-Z goes head to head with Noel Gallagher at Glastonbury [NME]

Went to the BECTU London Freelances’ Fair 2008 last Friday at BAFTA Piccadilly.

This is the third year of the Fair, and attendance appeared to surpass last year.

Informative stalls were complemented by a range of seminars and workshops.

At one of the seminars, Dean Whitbread, Chair of the UK Podcasters’ Association, spoke on the exploiting the digital future panel.

Following a quick apparatif of Timothy Taylor’s Landlord at the nearby Red Lion, I returned to the BAFTA bar for a lively discussion with event organisors from BECTU’s Writers Producers and Directors Branch.

• Go home, Bill: It’s time for a new era at Microsoft - if only the company were ready [I, Cringely]
• Bill’s excellent adventure ends in tears - and torpidity [Observer]
• The MBA myth [37signals]
• Why did you hire me? [A List Apart]

• Puffbox sponsors WordCamp UK [Puffbox]
• Row brewing over listing of BBC Television Centre [Guardian]
• Domain name shakeup may bring new net goldrush [Guardian]
• Has London’s Oyster travelcard system been cracked? [Guardian]

These two signs are just wrong.

Seen at a building site in Hills Place near Oxford Circus in London yesterday, these two signs are wrong in two different ways:

• The first one, men working overhead, hang on - no women working here?
• The second one, falling objects, is not a good health and safety notice - doesn’t exactly inspire confidence!