Your Dose: end of 2008 beginning of 2009 Roundup!

The end of 2008 and the beginning of 2009 has been really busy, but that hasn’t kept me from finding the interesting bits for you…..here is a round up of what I found!!!

Articles:

MediaGuardian - US election boosts traffic for UK newspaper websites

YahooTech - Will Google and Microsoft Own the Web? (PC World)

Gigaon - Even Bigger Nightmare On Tech Street

New York Times - Music Games for iPhone Give Artists New Spotlight

MediaGuardian - Pull out of Project Kangaroo, broadcasters told

Mashable - My 2008 Predictions Rocked; So What’s On Tap for Next Year?

BBCNews - Phones and fines top media’s 2008

BBCNews - Duffy and Burke top 2008 charts

Mashable - Twitter Relaunches Blazing Fast People Search

Mashable - HOW TO: Simplify

MediaGuardian - UK housewives are world’s top internet surfers

Mashable - Make Your Own Online Newspaper With Feed Chronicle

Mashable - HOW TO: Give Back With Social MicroFunding in 2009

BBCNews - Who on earth is Matt Smith?

BBCNews - Hit series Damages returns to BBC

BBCNews - Electric dreams for pop in 2009

InformITV - TVBLOB develops BLOBbox to bring web to TV

InformITV - Long tail fails to stand up to online reality test

Blogs:

GadgetLabs - 3D Live Events Are Coming To a Theater Near You. Do You Care?

MediaMonkey - Who are these people? It’s the new cast of Skins

OrganGrinder - What should the media resolutions be for 2009?

OrganGrinder - The 10 Best US TV shows of 2008

PDA - The forecast for 2009: Amee’s Gavin Starks thinks the future is bright for clean tech

Websites:

Roomatic – Create a chat room with Tweets

Scrapplet – Quick website creation

Personal Branding Blog

Amee – The Worlds energy meter

FeedJournal – Create your own RSS newspaper and print it!

FeedChronicle – Create your own RSS newspaper Online

Your Dose: 22nd December 2008

It’s the beginning of the week so welcome to a bumper edition of Your Dose:

Articles:

Guardian - Kangaroo offers to sacrifice joint selling of shows to achieve launch

Guardian – BBC Worldwide holds crucial talks with Woolworths backers over 2entertain

Mashable - Tweets to Go: 35+ More Twitter Resources for Your Phone

Mashable - Track Santa on Twitter

Guardian - Hallelujah! No 1 for Burke, and triple hit for Cohen

Guardian -Despite everything, 2008 proved to be the BBC’s year

Guardian - A life in broadcasting: The BBC

Guardian - Thunderbirds to be given TV revival

Guardian - Gavin & Stacey to return for third series

Blogs:

Gizmodo - Google Earth Leads Scientists to Undiscovered Forest, Brand New Species

PDA - Analyst: Music labels must get over their CD fixation

PDA - The world’s first dot com domains – back in 1985

and as always keep up to date on my delicious page….

Your Dose: 19th December 2008

It’s the weekend (whoop!) – about 5 days to Christmas (whoop!) and I have another bumper edition for you (whoop!)….

Articles:

BBC News - Dr New – is this the next Doctor?

BBC News - BBC iPlayer now available on Mac

Guardian - ITV axes Passage to India remake starring Matthew Macfadyen

Guardian - Stars urge fellow actors to sign up to Comic Relief’s ‘Taking on the Tough Stuff’ fundraiser

Guardian - Could Catherine Zeta-Jones be the next Doctor Who?

Guardian - Remember this guy?

Guardian - 100 top sites for the year ahead

CNET News - Adobe squeezes AIR out of beta for Linux users

The Wall Street Journal - How Apple Could Survive Without Steve Jobs

AdvertisingAge - Report: News-oriented Websites Have a Future

Mashable - YouTube Videos Are Becoming an Unwatchable Mess

Mashable - Beyond Facebook Gifts: Virtual Currencies 101

Mashable - Baby Blogging: 8 Trendy Tools Compared

Mashable - Notify.me Custom Alerts Get Even Faster With Desktop AIR App

Mashable - Why Facebook Connect is a Big Deal: Workstir’s Winning Implementation

Guardian - Tipping point for digital radio switch over could be 2015, says report

Blogs:

PDA - BBC introduces CBBC iPlayer, plus beta Mac and Linux downloads

Technology  Blog - Sky moves towards 3D broadcasting as Hollywood moves towards 3D movies

Organgrinder - Jonathan Ross turns to Twitter for radio advice

PostSecret - http://www.postsecret.blogspot.com/

InsideGuardian - Turning official figures into understandable graphics, at the press of a button

PDA - Demand for music down in Q3; paid downloads grow a mere 2%

PDA - The outlook for 2009, as defined by Twitterers

Ruptured - http://ruptured.wordpress.com/

Your Dose: 17th December 2008

Another day…another dose…

Articles:

Guardian - ’Web ad spend growth to dive in 2009′

Guardian - Channel 4: Government looks at four options to solve funding crisis

Guardian - Poke in the eye: couple served repossession papers on Facebook

BBC News - Hallelujah set for chart trinity

Guardian - Virgin Media stands by targeted ad technology

Guardian - BBC and Fox take flight for blockbuster drama series

Guardian - Hallelujah set to be a Christmas No 1 and 2

Daily Mail - Crumbs! A single mince pie ‘takes a four-mile slog to burn off’

Blogs:

PDA - EMI launches personalised music discovery site for direct-to-fan retail