Twitter and trees plus the Sex Pistols

An interesting discussion about how radio uses Twitter, first from Dick Stone, then from Matt Deegan, gives food for thought. Is radio (and television, for that matter) using Twitter correctly? Or, indeed, Dick Stone asks, are we using Facebook right?

Media UK's James Cridland was on the Radio Academy's Radio Talk podcast last week, along with Moz Dee from talkSPORT, who gets angry about something.

Is print dead? Get Satisfaction prints a trendy infographic with some US figures. They don't look good for print; we wonder how the figures differ for the UK marketplace.

Harker Research have more interesting figures around Pandora: particularly, an astute observation about industry pundits.

When we talk abut bloggers, are they journalists, or not? It's the wrong question, says the man who invented RSS, Dave Winer. His view, that people can be labelled as 'insiders' and 'outsiders', is worth a read.

Internet music company last.fm notes an interesting bit of music knowledge from their 'scrobbling' of iPods and media players around the Royal Family. It would be fascinating to know how many radio stations played the track they mention on the Royal Wedding day. Comparisons of what people actually do, versus what radio programming people think they do, are always interesting.

We write this update sitting in a radio conference. There are a lot of them about. Radio consultant Nik Goodman went to Los Angeles recently, and met Rick Dees.

Finally - was this a slow news day, or what?