The Internet Monthly: July 2012

The Internet Monthly is a monthly podcast featuring 10 or so short Internet related articles, tips and tricks and a regular search engine of the month feature.

In this month’s issue you can learn about the nine year old blogger and her school dinners plus smart cities and a search engine to interrogate them.

You can also discover why an Australian web shop is taxing users of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 7 and how marketers are making use of empty High Street stores.

This podcast is derived from a monthly newsletter published by Zen Internet and recorded and produced by Silicon Bay. The podcast is reproduced by kind permission of Zen Internet.

This Month’s Podcast

The Internet Monthly – July 2012:

Or, download: podcast_jul12.mp3 [15’ 01”, 6.9MB]

This Month’s Articles

This month’s edition of The Internet Monthly podcast contains the following articles. A list of links associated with each article are included for reference:

1. GOVERNMENT SEEKS CITY OF TOMORROW – £24 million for Smart Cities
   • news.techworld.com/networking/3363203/uk-government-award-24m-smart-city-fund
2. SMART MONEY FOR EURO START-UPS – European innovation encouraged
   • www.indexventures.com/news#news/index/news_id/327
3. POP-UP MARKET TESTING – Making use of empty High Street shops
   • twitter.com/#!/artistsmakers
   • www.artistsandmakers.com/staticpages/index.php/esncontact
4. CREATIVE WEBINAR WEEK – Adobe promoting UK creativity
   • www.adobecreate.co.uk/creativeweek
5. BEST NEW FONTS THIS YEAR – New fonts to inspire your creativity
   • designfestival.com/the-best-new-fonts-of-2012-so-far
   • www.behance.net/gallery/The-Graffiti-Font-%28Free%29/2843205
6. ENIGMA CODE BREAKER CELEBRATED – Alan Turing’s birth centenary
   • www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/visitmuseum/galleries/turing.aspx
   • newsletters.sciencemuseum.org.uk/re?l=6mrzgaI1uz80j1I4
   • newsletters.sciencemuseum.org.uk/re?l=6mrzgaI1uz80j1I5
7. MESSAGE FROM MARTHA – School dinners and the 9 year old blogger
   • www.justgiving.com/neverseconds
   • www.neverseconds.blogspot.co.uk
   • blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/18/neverseconds-no-photography-or-comments-on-school-dinners-please
   • www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jun/18/malawi-kitchen-martha-payne-school-blog
8. HOTTEST SOCIAL SITE YOU’VE NEVER HEARD OF – Free e-books galore
   • www.wattpad.com
   • betakit.com/2012/06/06/ebook-community-wattpad-raises-17-3m-claims-higher-engagement-than-pinterest
9. TAXING TIMES FOR IE7 – Australian online shop taxes IE7 users
   • www.kogan.com/au/blog/new-internet-explorer-7-tax
10. PROTECTED SEARCH – How to hide your search activities from Google
    • abine.com/protectedsearch
11. SEARCH ENGINE OF THE MONTH – Search engine for multimedia environment generated content
    • www.digitalspy.co.uk/tech/news/a386795/smart-search-engine-lets-users-search-real-world.html

This podcast is sponsored and reproduced by kind permission of Zen Internet Limited. The music on the podcast was provided courtesy of Will Tang.