TechCrunch UK launches

Looks like I've ended up with something of a UK theme today...

Congrats to Michael Arrington and new partner Sam Seth, editor of the brand spanking new TechCrunch UK. Launched earlier today, it has 3 subscribers to its feed as of 10.30am ET, a number that will no doubt go up as soon as people hear about it.

The tech scene in England is incredibly different from the US in many ways (including biz culture and attitude) and its good to see that Arrington has hired a local editor.

Is TechCrunch Sweden next? It certainly should be.

BBC News ...and they are funny too

BBC News is in my mind the premier news organization in the world. And guess what, they are funny too. The "Beeb" is currently promoting its range of online news delivery options including feeds, podcasts etc.

The brilliant "Newsnight" show is now being made available as a video podcast and also as a regular audio only podcast. Under the latter BBC notes that it is delivered "...without the inconvenience of pictures." British wit and understated humor at its best.

BBC News podcasts

Promo button

What's up with the "Promo" thing?

Well, there are some truly great apps, services, events and people out there. From time to time I'll put a button at the top of the page to remind everyone, including myself, about them.

It's not paid advertising. Rarely is it an affiliate thing. Mostly it's a few pixels of love.

1000 Words

The era of Web 1.0 had Alex Tew's The Million Dollar Home Page. Today we have (the very un-Web 2.0) The 1000 Word Page. We the online peoples of the world love this stuff. Why? Is it a meta thing? I don't know. But it's sort of fun. And it made Alex very rich. Hopefully the two v nice French biz students Guillaume and Olivier will get some cash out of their 1000 words.

Now back to our original scheduled programming...