As I couldn’t get the live feed over the web, listening to podcasts on the iPhone speakers kind of took over from that. All well and good, but I’ve always missed the Today programme.

So I’m delighted to have found a way to listen live again. Here’s how:

1. Download the free FStream application (search “fstream” on the iTunes store. It’s a French app, but don’t lt the language put you off if you don’t speak it.
2. Copy one of the following URLs from bbcstreams.com (bizarrely I couldn’t do it from that website on the iPhone, hence replicating them here).
3. Open Fstream and tap on “Favorites” then “Edit” then “Add new webradio”.
4. Add the name of the station, paste the URL in the appropriate box and ut MP3 in the format box (the bitrate is 128 but I don’t tink you need to fill that bit in).
5. Stream happily for a few days and if you love it then go to the donation link in FStream (More/Donate) – NB: bbcstreams.com also survives on donations, so maybe split your donation if you really love it.

There you go…

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our online identities are comprised primarily of three specific kinds of data:

• Explicit or prescriptive data (i.e. the data that I input about myself: name, age, occupation, etc.);
• Activity or behavioral data (i.e. what I do and say online);
• Relationship data (i.e. my social graph and what my connections say about me).

If we consider the power of this pragmatic Web (a highly relevant and individualized Web experience based on the ubiquity of our identity data), we find that it not only impacts individual user experience, but that it opens up entirely new opportunities for business online. The future is not “business as usual.” Business models will be based on what Elias Bizannes of the Data Portability Project calls the “information value network-economic value,” derived from services that focus on activities with comparative advantage and that leverage free access to data.

Consider this: as media companies scramble to identify new and innovative ways to advertise to the sea of nameless, pixeled users who graze through their content each day, a rich supply of highly valuable identity data lies just beneath the surface, left unmeasured and unmonetized.

M’learned colleague Alisa Hansen, of iCrossing NYC, recently published this post on ReadWriteWeb about how our identity will affect how the web works for us…

It’s an important concept – I’m particularly taken with her neat categorisation of the three kinds of identity data we have online: explicit, behavioural and relationship…

Tags: search, identity, personal, web, pragmatic

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So… to try to trend, choose the right time, make it interesting and newsworthy, then write it different and network your content.

Drew had a blog post go chicken oriental via Twitter – trending four times, 500 RTs etc.

The headline was written in about as Tweet-friendly a way as possible: “New average ages of social media users: Twitter 31, Facebook 33, LinkedIn 39, MySpace 26″

This is an interesting post where he thinks about the reasons he got a viral effect around the Tweet / blog post…

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My love affair with Posterous continues and deepens. 

If you haven’t tried it yet send an email with a photo, video, audio file or a link to post@posterous.com and you’ll be up and running. 

M’learned content colleague, Charlie Peverett explains why Posterous is so practically useful, simple and geekily exciting at the same time on the iCrossing blog in a lovely post entitled Posterous and the faff-free future. 

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A 72-page pdf preview of Business Model Generation is available for free. Ultimately, the full book will be available through Amazon. In the meantime, however, it can be ordered directly at a price of EUR 43 in Europe, USD 62 in the US and Canada, or USD 96 everywhere else; shipping costs (which the book’s creators say will soon come down) are included. One to apply to the creation of *your* next big thing…?

Website: www.businessmodelgeneration.com
Contact: patrick.van.der.pijl@gmail.com

Spotted by: Simon Maurer

Really interesting to see people experimenting with business models around books (especially, ahem, with one of my own soon to appear in deadwood format).

Reminds me of Ian Ozsvald’s Screencasting Handbook approach – exciting stuff…

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This failure by national papers to report on media matters in the public interest amounts to a conspiracy of silence. And the loser is the public with a right to know just how its self-selected moral guardians act in their own back yard.

And after all the puff and pomp as they brought MPs low over expenses… Shame, I say. Shame…

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Heart of a City: BioMapping

By Maria Popova

Why skin is the new heart and how your neighbors can change the way your feel about your street.

On the trails of yesterday’s fascinating exploration of cities as living organisms, today we look at another piece of high-concept urban portraiture that harnesses the power of art, sociology and technology to a brilliant end.

Since 2004, Christian Nold has been orchestrating Bio Mapping — a crowdsourced community mapping project, which wires people up to Galvanic Skin Response (GSR) devices, detecting their emotional arousal, and sends them on their merry way around the neighborhood. These states are then mapped onto people’s geographic location, creating a visualization of communal emotion.

This is a mind-spinning, gorgeous project that highlights how ubiquitous social web technology will start to make us think about and experience our urban environments differently.

I’ve noticed similar effects just with having an iPhone with reliable location and mapping data on you all of the time. I navigate London very differently, especially. The mapping data has changed how I model it in my head.

Same on the South Downs when I’m mountain biking. I “see” trails and ridges and hills via a Google Earth view almost… I’m making sense of an environment that used to be the background to the road and train system around Brighton in my mental model in a different way. Re-wiring how my brain sees it, cross referencing with computer data and trails/comments that others have made, often online, leaving their trails etc. there…

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There are five things an organisation needs to do to make their crisis preparation social media compliant.

1. Monitor social media in real-time
2. Establish a management process that delivers a response that is quicker and more specific to the needs of social media, rather than adapted only to the needs of traditional media
3. Create an information publication platform that is optimised to spread information effectively through social networks
4. Re-purpose your existing information so that it can spread easily through social networks
5. Incorporate social media into your crisis training.

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Sure, even in the huggy ecosystem, companies fight and compete. But in an ecosystem-based economy, companies benefit – they find efficiency and growth – by working collaboratively. As I see it, the new economy and its opportunities will be built in three layers:

1. Platforms. There’s tremendous benefit in building a platform and the more people use to succeed, the more the platform succeeds. Google, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, eBay – you know all the examples.

2. Entrepreneurial enterprises. Thanks to the platforms, it’s incredibly inexpensive to start new companies. It’s also a helluva lot cheaper to fail (and try again). This is why I believe that the future of news – and many other industries – is entrepreneurial: because it can be. It’s not just media and its bits. It’s manufacturing (because you can use others’ factories and distribution channels and your own customers as your platforms).

3. Networks. It is still necessary to gather the smalls together into bigs: audience brought together so advertisers can buy access to them more easily; purchasing brought together to get better prices. So there is business in creating and serving these networks.

For the sake a PowerPoint, a diagram of the three layers of an ecosystem-based economy:

In our New Business Models for News Project, this is how I (crudely) drew the ecosystem for news.

How do you draw the conglomerate-based industry? With boxes, each separate, with arrows pointing to each other at a distance. Simplistic? Sure, but the change in the worldview of the new economy looks that basic when you hear the two tribes trying to understand each other.

I really like this point of view. There’s a crunch to go through as businesses experiement with and then move over to these kinds of business models.

Very, very difficult when you are bound by quarterly P&L performance so it will need the buy in of boards if major cos are to adopt it…

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