Wednesday, March 09, 2005

My BitTorrent download of the SXSW music archive has been running about 30 hours. 12.5 percent complete, an estimated 8 days to go.  

Chris Lydon returns to the public airways, in Boston on WGBH, and distributed nationally through PRI. "We just want to make the show incredibly zesty and original and fresh," Lydon said. 

Lowell Sun: "In hiring well-known public-radio talkmeister Christopher Lydon for $12,500 a month, UMass Lowell says its getting much more than a locally produced radio program." 

News-Record: "A forum on blogging for elected representatives, candidates, policy makers and government officials will be held March 19 in Greensboro." 

Steve Rubel: "Walt Mossberg weighs in on Google Autolink in tomorrow's paper. Basically his stance is consistent with what he wrote in 2001 on Smart Tags. The big news, however, is that Google sounds like it might be listening." 

2WW: Nightline and the Berkman-Thursday group. 

BBC: Virgin Radio starts daily podcast. 

Chapel Hill bloggers meet tonight at 6PM at a new location. 

Google is now putting real ads on audio.weblogs.com. I think the thing that got them to take another look is that I started running ads on the xml-rpc and soapware sites. The ads on all three are just right, imho.