Soundbytes for 19/p

DRM is intended to replace long wave, medium wave and short wave broadcasts with a more reliable and higher-quality service

John Sykes, digital radio project director at the BBC World Service, which has started a Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) digital radio service for Europe. DRM is intended to replace long wave, medium wave and short wave broadcasts with a more reliable and higher-quality service.

“It doesn’t have the emotive cachet that the Razr or the iPod has. When you whip this out in the bar, nobody’s going to say, ‘That’s a cool device.’”

Yankee Group analyst John Jackson on Apple’s new iTunes phone, or Motorola Rokr, recently unveiled by Steve Jobs, Apple chief executive, in San Francisco.

“We don’t need the mainstream media to tell us what’s interesting any more. Millions of people want to tell their stories, and with video-blogging, they can tell their stories.”

Twenty-seven-year-old Raymond Kristiansen, a video-blogger from Bergen in Norway, who has been turning his camcorder on politicians ahead of Norwegian parliamentary elections.

“When I first arrived at Penn, I was living with people in dorms and everyone was playing poker online. It was exciting because they were winning really big. Some of them would post on their door how much money they won.”

Ian More, a post-graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania, who is one of about 20 million Americans estimated to be gambling online today.

“This can be the basis for the digital distribution of entertainment, if we wanted to deliver original content, films or TV shorts.”

Fox executive Ross Levinson, talking about force-feeding content to the users of News Corp’s new internet acquisitions.

“What I really like about Eric, Larry, Sergey and the whole Google family is its collective and eminent practicality and seemingly boundless creativity.”

Vint Cerf talking about his decision to quit MCI to join Google.

“Do you really want to pay for all the excess functionality in Windows that distracts your employees and reduces their productivity?”

Jack Messman, chief executive of Novell, talking about his ‘less-is-more’ product philosophy.

“I got tired of not being able to download my own music.”

Madonna talking about licensing her music catalogue to iTunes because, apparently, she couldn’t figure out how to use file-sharing.