North Atlantic Radio episode 5

This is episode five of North Atlantic Radio, with Brian Suda and Matt Riggott. In this episode we talk about AP and microformats, Matt takes on the UK government’s swine flu site, and of course we mention our favourite new site and the books we’re reading.

• AP want DRM for news
• AP’s hNews format
• Microformats
• AP DRM diagram demystified
• National Pandemic Flu Service
• ‘9.3m hits an hour for swine flu website — but we can cope, government insists’
• Baconfile
• The New British Constitution, by Vernon Bogdaor
• The (Mis)behaviour of Markets: a Fractal View of Risk, Ruin, and Reward, by Benoit Mandelbrot and Richard Hudson
• The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, by Edward Tufte