links for 2009-10-01

"dabbl will broadcast live on DAB between 7pm and 6am and for the beta launch period (approx six weeks) it will showcase exclusively live music. It’s a new user-controlled radio where the playlist is in your hands – you vote for the songs you want to hear. You can browse all of the songs in the library by artist, track name, live event and year. Once you’ve found a track you like, all you have to do is hit the ‘Vote’ button. The tracks with the most votes are played out during the following hour. Simple!"

Tonight's edition, broadcast on Resonance 104.4FM, and afterwards available as a podcast, is about the Tottenham Outrage.

According to The Sun, Michele Elliott, founder of charity Kidscape branded the image a 'paedo magnet'. I would have thought such a device would be quite useful for rounding up paedos, even if it does sound like it should have featured in the Brass Eye special.

An evening event at the University of Edinburgh - looks interesting.

A campaign to get Jilted John's "Gordon Is A Moron" back into the charts to coincide with the general election.

"Can you share experiences, standards, guidelines or any sort of literature which talks about attaining usability in software products aimed for kids". There are some really good links in here if you are working on this kind of project or are interested in the topic.

Picks up on some of the findings of our recent FUMSI survey on social media use amongst the organisations where information professionals work

In amongst the chat on this Metafilter thread about my 2001 article is "The same site has The Buffy Guide to the Internet, a ludicrously in-depth analysis of computing and the internet as seen in a 1997 episode of Buffy The Vampire Slayer. The article manages to be both funny ha-ha ("that's witty!") and funny peculiar ("what kind of person goes into this much detail?")". I have no excuse to give except that I was in Crete and had a lot of time on my hands?