• Fawnt - Top free fonts | Font - Archive | Blog Design and Webdesign
  Nice, and 10,000 full fonts archive
  (tags: fonts free download design)

• Download Uproar: Record Industry Goes After Personal Use - washingtonpost.com
  In legal documents in its case against Jeffrey Howell, who kept a collection of about 2,000 music recordings on his computer, the industry maintains that it is illegal for someone who has legally purchased a CD to transfer that music into his computer.
  (tags: music online)

• The Blogfather
  Jorn Barger of Robot Wisdom coined the term “weblog” Dec. 17, 1997 and the rest, as they blog, was history. As you can see Jorn hasn’t shaved since 1997, presumably because he’s been too busy blogging. Wired News asked Jorn to share his top ten ti
  (tags: blogging)

• Internal Business Social Networking
  Superb post on business social networking…”a company isn’t a single entity at all, it is a group of people who have social relationships and who need some of those relationships to remain hidden.”
  (tags: Media 2.0 Workgroup Geekery)

MediaShift Idea Lab . Tapping the Potential of Geotagging | PBS

For Geotagging functionality to be anything more than a cool widget, it must also…

* Let users to define and save multiple areas of interest.
* Support physically defined regions.
* Account for more than just the hyper-local or the global scope.
* Incorporate proven organization schemes like topical categorization.
* Include news that is tagged to multiple locations, irrelevant locations, or no location at all.
* Feature a truly great interface that supports everything on this list.

I’d agree most of this -  especially with idea of multiple places.

Although on the idea of regions, although I’m  that using longitude/latitudes with less detail (eg 52, -1 instead of 52.122172, -1.23233 &c.) can do a lot of this without thinking about the geotag equivalent of HTML image mapping - which would be unnecessarily complicated.

The geo information isn’t going to be the only data used in deciding the interest of the user - AMPL or some other attention data will be factored in too. Most news does happen at a specific point, and will affect greater areas due to its importance and relevance, rather than a drawn physical border.

The only podcast I’d ever have considered paying for, Danny Baker’s All Day Breakfast show, has ended after an acroimonious split with (I’m asuming) Wippit. It, and even more distressingly for me, the free football-ish Baker and Kelly are no more - Danny Baker has writen of his distress with the situation on their blog:

I have absolutely no idea where any subscription fees are, went or remain. All I know is that we all have created an enormous amount of strong, funny, unbeatable internet shows and in return received nothing. And I mean nothing. Not a brass penny in nine long months just some hefty studio bills along the way. Now it has come down to the old “Ah well if you read your contract you’ll find…” and I feel like some dumb-cluck boy band.

These shows were on top of the podcast charts - and one would assume the Al Day Breakfast Show was pulling in the money (at £2 a week subscription). If the money has not been enough to even pay the studio bills, assuming no impropriety on the part of Wippit, then can paid for radio-style podcasting work? Is it a case of the model not being simple enough (iTunes doesn’t easily do paid for podcasting), or will people just not pay for “radio”?

• The Point
  Have you ever had a issue you wanted to stand up for but figured it would not go anywhere without the support of a larger group of people? Well, now you can test the waters of any issue or problem with the help of The Point. Inspired by the book The Tippi
  (tags: Media 2.0 Workgroup)
• Web TV alters football kick-off times
  You might think that there is no televised football at this end of the game, but the Northern Premier League runs a reasonably successful web site which broadcasts matches live, and on December 29th they had scheduled the Division One North match between
  (tags: Culture football tv)

• The Next Social Network: WordPress - GigaOM
  Could open-source blogging platform WordPress serve as your next social networking profile? Chris Messina, co-founder of Citizen Agency, thinks so. He’s started a project called DiSo, for distributed social networking, that aims to “build a social net
  (tags: blogging links media online socialnetworking wordpress)

Like Radio 4? Love the hidden gems, the quality speech radio, but frustrated with the idea of having to sift through the rest of it? Speechification offers to:

point to the bits we like, the bits you might have missed, the bits that someone might have sneakily recorded.

Finding your own personal relevant and interesting bits is something that , in theory at least, could be done automatically - with APML and other attention data - but while the BBC are looking for ways to “visualise radio” that’s unlikely to be high priority. It is lucky then, that people are willing to do it for free.

• Channel 4 launches tiny widget/mashup competition
  Create a widget or mashup from two RSS feeds, the winner gets £1500 and two runners up get £250 each. That’s it.
  (tags: Media 2.0 Geekery)