Downloading
Annual University of Hertfordshire survey on music consumption. Two views:
Trade body UK Music, who fund the survey “Music consumption in 14-24 year olds is complex, latest survey reveals” UK Music
Torrentfreak “14-24 year olds pirate 8,000 music tracks each” Torrentfreak
Digital Britain
Programme for the delivery of actions in the DB White Paper published tiny.cc
BIS Consultation on the proposed changes to Ofcom’s duties tinyurl.com
Higher Education
Joss Winn: Comparing ‘The Edgeless University’ and ‘HE in a Web 2.0 World’ reports bit.ly
Peer to peer university launches. Deadline to sign up is the 26th – www.p2pu.org
Creative Commons
Publications now available from Google Books. Coming to a reading list near you.
Lessig, Doctorow, Boyle and Zittrain ping.fm
Mapping
Superb mapping service for OS maps in the UK – wtp2.appspot.com
Audio
Unlocking Audio 2009 conference programme, videos and papers now online: is.gd metadata, archive & social media
Hyperlocal
Lost Remote: Neighborhood blogs drive participation in city planning bit.ly
Innovation
Discover the top 100 open innovation organisations across the globe, compiled by NESTA blogs.nesta.org.uk
Facebook takeover of Friendfeed
Scoble, your blog still loves you – www.scripting.com Dave Winer on FriendFeed et al.
Scoble is excited scobleizer.com
Friendfeed users in the research community less so. Cameron Neylon: The trouble with business models (Facebook buys Friendfeed) friendfeed.com
URL shortening
The shortening service tr.im, from Nambu network, was suspended and reinstated: blog.tr.im
It’s a problem. For example, shortened urls on this blog will stop working if the service is withdrawn. What to do? John Gruber wrote his own url shortner. There are couple of WordPress plugins which offer shortening. But as Dave Winer points out, Twitter could easily extend the character limit to 140 characters excluding the url, or make shortened urls portable scripting.com
Concerned about privacy? Considering opting out? The Onion reports bit.ly