Media Guardian writes about the staggering success of Sandi Thom’s debut single. I was sure that her overnight success was the result of some very good PR, rather than a £60 web cam. Because, you don’t get 120,000 viewers of your concerts with a £60 web cam. You need some serious hardware to serve that number of visitors simultaneously, which means money and contacts.

It appears that her record company are now admitting that the story of a penniless singer, blah blah blah, was fabricated and a PR company has been working with Sandi since June last year. And the media bought it.

The Pay-TV service that supplies extra channels to the UK’s Freeview digital terrestrial broadcasting system is undergoing corporate restructuring in order to “reflect the diverse and evolving elements of our business”. That’s according to David Chance, the chairman of Top Up.

Top Up is being demerged into three new companies, which were established in November last year. Those companies are named ‘Top Up TV 1’, ‘Top Up TV 2’ and ‘Top Up TV 3’. Mmm.. diverse.. evolving..

More inspiration for design, or a quick reference to what’s happening around the world, Today’s Front Pages has front pages for hundreds of newspapers in dozens of countries. Each page is available in PDF format. An archive section includes pages that chronical events of historical significance.

Gotta love those BBC guys. The BBC Sport department writes about yesterday’s Indy 500, that saw the pole-sitter Sam Hornish grab the lead late on the final lap. 2005 winner, Dan Wheldon, was fourth after “leading at one stage”.

Later in the piece they provide more appropriate context to the victory because Dan Wheldon lead for 148 of the 200 laps.

The marvellous Nerina Pallot has a blog on her new website. It has an RSS feed, which is great. It has just two entries, which is not great. In fact, in light of her impending stardom, I’d expect that there would be more blogging. MySpace doesn’t count. Even though there are blog postings there too.

Isn’t that a problem? When you have numerous outlets for your fanbase, where are fans supposed to go to keep up to date? Everywhere? Maybe a google or two will find some other new postings somewhere..

Nerina’s second blog post tells you that she’s currently blogging on a page on Channel 4’s website. And she’s keeping this page up to date!

The Channel 4 page is just a web page. It’s not a blog. So no RSS feed. This makes my brain hurt. There are so many opportunities being lost here. Thinking some more: Gig dates: blog them. Don’t just stick them on the website. Stories. Ditto. Reviews, Photos. The same. And bung them into SlideShowPro.