Here’s a few interesting links from this week that you might have missed. They’re stuff I might have blogged about given unlimited time.
Om Malik shows why you shouldn’t mess with a blogger or a journalist. Get off the fence, Om, and tell us what you really think of Dell.
Forbes looks at why the mobile might be the next “Napster”. I’ve been saying this for 2 years (at least) but if Forbes say it, it must be right.
Business Week looks at the marriage of radio and the mobile. I believe that this is an important idea and that the combination of mobile and radio is much more natural than mobile video. So soon you’ll be able to listen to Eddie Grundy (pictured) on your mobile. If you don’t live in the UK, you won’t know who Eddie Grundy is. I don’t have time to explain and in fairness, you wouldn’t be very interested 
Various subscription models for mobile radio are being tried. Plus the article explores the idea of creating your own radio station for others to tune into, when they are in your vicinity. This could do to radio what blogging has done to journalism.
Finally “beleaguered” may well be word that’ll soon be regularly applied to the golden goose of yore - the ringtone market. This thread on W2Forum (sub needed) suggests that the combination of operator paranoia (completely justified, by the way) of billing customers for content they hadn’t thought they’d ordered (the Jamba method) and dwindling ad returns is hitting the industry hard.
In its heyday an ad in The Sun in the UK (a mass market daily tabloid) returned a staggering 5 - 8 times the cost of the ad. Nowadays, you’re lucky to break even.
And P2P ringtone filesharing hasn’t even started yet. Time to bail out of this market, methinks.
Have a great weekend.
Russell