A former colleague of ours, Tristan Ferne in the BBC's Audio & Music Interactive department was interviewed by the Guardian this week. We're particularly intrigued by Moose 6... looks like yet another cognitive surplus moment...

I've hugely enjoyed the Sublime Frequencies label's almost willfully eccentric compilations  - revolutionary proto-Rai from Algeria, Bollywood steel guitar - but have only just caught sight of their equally willful website. Less user-centred than dada-centred design.

The value of Top 100 lists is always questionable - and why always in multiples of 10?! That said, the Guardian's list of the 100 best websitesis worth a peek. Still no Weebly though? Why hasn't it made an impact in the UK? Weird...

TED's European director Bruno Giussani has all but decommissioned his always-thoughtful blog Lunch over IP. His reasons for for doing so are as clearly thought through and articulated as one would expect.

Another former colleague and a good friend, Nick Reynolds discusses the highs and lows of the BBC's iPlayer Day on his personal blog.

Game Politics points to at least three low-fi Flash games based on the Bush/shoe incident. Hardly as controversial as the suicide bomber game - nor frankly as funny - but they made me chuckle for a few seconds.

We try to avoid Powerpoint as much as humanly possible at Double Shot, going generally for a much more nail-biting live online demo approach to our presentations. For all that, it can be deployed well (indeed, only this week we witnessed Jem Stone deliver a riveting 50 minute PPT-driven presentation at one of the BBC workshops we've organised).  Anyway, I thought this 11 Rules of Powerpoint  post  was a pretty nifty guide to how to do it well. Also, take note: 11, not 10! Yes!

Paid Content report on the Beta launch of emi.com. I suspect we'll have more to say at a later date - once we've had a good play - but on first glance I have to say I'm impressed; it's certainly the best thing any major has done in the field so far, with customisable playlists, a pretty solid recommendations service a free live streaming. A really impressive start.

This is really, really old, but came up again in a conversation J and I were having this week: Gizmondo's report on the utterly fallacious figures bandied about about the impact of P2P on IP-based revenue.

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