Radiohead have announced a tour of the UK in 2008, playing large outdoor events. Dates confirmed so far are:

Victoria Park, London - June 24th and 25th
Glasgow Green - 27th
Lancashire County Cricket Ground, Manchester - 29th

More dates are expected to go on sale when these sell out.

Tickets will be on sale Friday 7th at 10am from our official box office at - this link -

Source: British Concerts

I just received an email from w.a.s.t.e - Radiohead’s merchandise arm.

Hello,

Just to let you know…

Your “In Rainbows” discbox has now left w.a.s.t.e. in the UK

You can expect delivery of your discbox in the following estimated times.

UK 1-8 days

Europe 1-14 days

Rest of World 5-18 days

Wherever possible (especially to customers in the USA), we’ve sent these by road and sea.

December is a busy time of year for postal services globally, so please be patient.

We thank you for your custom and hope you enjoy your discbox when you receive it.

Best wishes.

us @ w.a.s.t.e.

So bloody excited!!!

It’s been a long time since I have written a meaningful blog on here. So today is the day that I get back to it.

Currently, I am reading Quarterly Essays #27: Reaction Time: Climate Change and the Nuclear Option, a quarterly publication on various political, social and environmental issue –stuff that concerns us all. Here is an interesting excerpt:

“Fifty years ago, Australia was one of the most equal societies in the World. Today, we are one of the most unequal of all the industrialised nations. Again, the mineral export industries are influential. The industry is capital-intensive and commodity prices have been driven up by demand in China, so mining companies can afford to pay very high wages compared with manufacturing or services. In cities like Perth, the high incomes of mining workers on fly-in fly-out contracts are driving house prices to levels that put the Australian dream beyond the reach of more and more young families. While the good times of the mining boom roll on, we should be using the revenue to invest in a cohesive social future, rather than allowing the windfall gains to widen inequality”

This particular section of the publication focuses on the use of public money to fund things like tax-cuts. Tax-cuts seem great, but really, are they? If we have more discretionary income it leads to increase spending which leads to inflation. As the author, Ian Lowe points out, the resource boom has lead to extravagant lifestyles and spending behaviour for many, at the expense of other people; resource consumption; and pollution. The divide of rich and poor is increasing.

Something I find interesting is the Alberta Heritage Savings Trust Fund. When Alberta stumbled upon coal and gas (I think it was?) they set up this fund, simply, for when these resources run out. What does Australian Federal Government do with proceeds of the resource boom? It promotes effluence!

Sure, Australia is a lucky nation but we do over indulge. I agree with Lowe in that we need to live simpler: smaller homes, smaller cars, energy-efficiency. Rather than finding better ways to produce more energy; we should find better ways of using less.

Anyways, those are my views at the moment. I shall move on to something a little lighter: cool links…

Angie’s List:- members submit more than 15,000 reports each month about the companies they’ve hired. They describe their project (including the cost), and grade the company’s response time, prices and quality of work - good or bad. In reading the reviews, you’ll know if a crew was conscious of children and pets, cleaned up after themselves, or just totally botched the job.

Quarterly Essays:- Quarterly Essay 27 Reaction Time by Ian Lowe was one of the bestselling books at the 2007 Brisbane Writers Festival. (The publication I talked about above).

In Rainbows:- You’d have to be living under a rock or in a town that is out of reach of the media to not know the circumstances under which Radiohead released their new album. They’re free of record labels and went it alone by releasing In Rainbows as a download through their website. But that’s not all, the buyer names the price. Any price, every price is a winner.

By the way, the album is a ripper. I have been a fan of theirs for years and it’s in their top three for me. Amnesiac, Kid A, In Rainbows –that’s my ranking.

Over and out.

PJGO

Haven’t I neglected this site muchly? Well, I have decided to contribute some. It won’t be often but when something interesting happens in the internet, business, marketing or technology space I’ll be sure to share my commentary –for what ever it is worth.

Dear oh dear. I have been lazy.

I will post a few of my findings with commentary attached in the coming days along with some new stuff perhaps. I have been bogged down with work and study.

Pajago

Hi Readers,

I haven’t made a post for the past few days and it may be a few more before another juicy, information filled one. I have been head down in the uni text learning about value, satisfaction, demand management and the list of topics goes on.

Keep your eyes peeled for new stuff on here. I might share with you a nifty thing called “customer delivered value” which is, in basic terms, the totality of  cost vs. value. Or something like that…

Anyways, I am rabbiting on -as usual- bye for now.

Pajago

Buying domain names is one thing but buying websites is a handful. In a previous post, I mentioned that I bought Directory-Tree which is a neat little link directory. Well, trying to transfer the domain name was a piece of cake. But transferring the site and the PHPLD script is a pain in the neck. What more, the previous owner is on a different time-zone and hasn’t got regular connection to the internet.

Fingers crossed that I have it transfered over the weekend. The site is down at the moment because of the transfer which concerns me. However, Trampola went down back in May for a few days and that didn’t cause too much trouble.

Again, fingers crossed.

Pajago

I haven’t written a post in a few days -oops. I have just started back at uni and have been busy with work. Now, however, I have 13-days of annual leave so I aim to post at least one entry a day.

Sounds like a bit of a challenge for myself. Ok, let’s make it official. 13-days posts in 13-days. I promise to make them quality and worthwhile too. I have a few things I wish to write about: part 2 of the MySpace post, part 2 of the Worlds Thinnest Notebook post, and I can’t think of anything else on the spot right now. Stay tuned.

Pajago

Last week on Digital Point I made purchase of Directory-Tree. I must say it’s one of the neatest web directory designs I have seen in a while: especially for the price.

The stats for the site are pretty neat. It’s Alexa ranked; has a PR1 (which I’ll soon change) and loads of potential.

This is my new pet-project so we’ll see how we go.

In other news, I have been on a domain name buying spree. Purchased four over the week. All have loads of potental. A couple I wish to build blogs around and flip. The others I’ll invest time and effort as they are associated with interests of mine, i.e. global warming and travel.

Pajago

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MySpace is one of the first appliances of the Web 2.0 movement. MySpace is an online, social community that allows people to interact with one-another, host a personal profile and add friends to your profile. (This is a basic overview of MySpace as it’s so much more.)

Web 2.0 is the label for the second generation of the internet. Characteristics of Web 2.0 include social networking, user-generated content and open-source (user-editable) software. MySpace is mostly user-driven.

Being an active user of MySpace I can vouch for how addictive and fun it is. To me, the site doesn’t have a hell of a lot you can do, but I have found myself dabbling in it for hours on end. Of the things there are to do there is messaging, commenting and adding friends, searching bands, books and other entertainment, creating social groups, contributing to forums –all types of fun stuff.

Networking with existing friends is one of the main drawcards of MySpace. At one stage I had a group of around 20 “offline” friends added to my personal profile and we would message one-another, comment each others blogs and photos and so on. Now let me share an experience I’ve had on MySpace that I think has direct reverence to a theory known as Power of Context.

You’ll have to wait for part two though.