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James Cridland
Personal blog · james.cridland.net/blogbusinessculture
James Cridland's personal blog at james.cridland.net covers business and culture. Since 2011, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link his blog for a post on ABC News Australia RSS feeds and a post on UK digital radio brand extensions. Both are cited as sources for the commenters' points.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Radio futurologist and Editor of Podnews
What Hacker News says?
Public funding is kind of a cheat, but if we're gonna include them, I'd like to spruik that the ABC still technically has functional rss feeds: https://james.cridland.net/blog/2025/abc-news-australia-rss-... They're no longer officially supported though.
Comment linking /blog/2025/abc-news-australia-rss-feeds/
on “PBS News Hour West to go dark after ASU discontinues contract”Submitted Think different about Jobs as a story · 159 points
HN discussionBrand extension has worked well in starting to transition the UK across to digital radio, too, as argued (by someone other than me) in this blog post: http://james.cridland.net/blog/its-all-in-the-brand/ Rather than filling the dial with unknown names, like "The Groove", "BBC 7" and "Liquid" as they tried (and failed) in the early 2000s, broadcasters have transitioned to using extensions of familiar names. If you al…
Comment linking /blog/its-all-in-the-brand/
on “Ask HN: have you ever marketed the same product under two different names?”Submitted Advertising Is Shit Now as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Piracy and ad-blockers are both theft as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ask HN: Help to lower AWS bill: CloudFront requests for files that don't exist as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Review: A month with a Solargrow solar system as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Apple Music's new AI auto mix: examples as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Radio can learn from faith-based broadcasters as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What does Google know about me? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What might "Pure Music" on your radio mean for radio? as a story · 1 points
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