Media UK is the UK's free media resource, with jobs, news and contact details for the UK media industry. It's at http://www.mediauk.com/
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- Founded:
- 1994
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- Code update 12:45am Dec 18|1 Comment
- The wrong kind of snow for our servers 4:38pm Dec 17
- Twitter lists 11:04pm Dec 4|1 Comment
If last February was anything to go by, we’re expecting this morning to be a difficult one for Media UK: you can see the effect that the snow had last time it came around (more than trebling the site visits), and it also killed the site off for part of the day. ...
All well so far with the servers. This is good. A small code update this morning to fix a small bug which meant that, under certain isolated conditions, we were serving horribly uncompliant JavaScript which broke the ad banners.
A little recreational coding has given everyone four lots of nice Twitter lists of media titles. See them at http://twitter.com/mediauk/lists This also marks the (low-key) launch of Media UK’s twitter list for television channels. ...
Lucky you – we’ve just loaded the full RAJAR figures for Q3 2009. (RAJAR figures are the radio figures in the UK, if you’re new to the party). Find them by going to a radio station page, and hitting the ‘latest audience figures’ link. Here’s B...
Some enhancements to search this afternoon, particularly those people who insist on searching Media UK for: deaths No, really – there are quite a lot of them. ...
https:// links, like those used on the BBC jobs website, are now clickable in the jobs pages; we use this to achieve this: $job_contact = eregi_replace(”((http|https)://[^ ]*)”,”<a href=\”\\1\”>\\1</a>”,$job_contact); Tweets in the scrolling updates on the right-hand side column, and in people page...
When you click on a news story, it goes via our site to count the amount of interest for each news story. This helps us produce the ‘most popular story’ links on the right-hand side of the news pages, as well as the news headlines in our daily emails. An...
We announced the other week that we’re retiring The Knowledge from our website – and, indeed, we’ve already managed to do quite a lot of the work to do this. You’...
*** October 2, 2009 1:00 AM BST *** Those nice people at Rackspace tell me that Media UK will be down for a short period on October 2, at 1.00am, for essential maintenance...
Hello there, To let you know that we’ll be closing The Knowledge in the next couple of weeks. Its wiki format is difficult to fit into the website, and it doesn’t work well with the rest of the site. I’...
Monitoring the 404 errors has been interesting. Firstly, we’ve noticed a bug in the Google Insights for Search gadget that we use. We’ve reported that. We’ve also deliberately made the title of this posting antagonistic, to make the Google people come here and look. It might work. Seco...
Just like WordPress, Media UK now lists shortlinks as rel=shortlink links; both in the header and (for those that support it) in the HTTP headers as well. We’re doing this for directory entries, but will be doing the same for news entries too, once we re-write that system. ...
New content: We added a few new titles, and quite a few journalists on Twitter that we were unaware of. We fixed some rather odd wording for journalists (”other magazines Twitter users” english is not). We...
And we’ve added a few links to allow you to navigate the news archive better; which we should probably do to the ‘media launches’ list as well at some point. We also refined our website code release procedure earlier this morning. It’s...
