So did anyone go to the BBC Manchester blogging workshop last Thursday? I suspect the bizarre weather and unnerving traffic meant a few didn’t make it in the end.

For those who did: how was it?

The BBC is continuing the trend today, by asking listeners of Five Live to write their first ever blog post for its website. By mid-afternoon, they’ve already had 150 respondents, most embracing blogging’s self-referential style with ease.

Annoyingly, however, the posts are just displayed as one long page of comments on the Five Live Breakfast blog. Whatever happened to user-friendliness, BBC?

Minor gripes aside, hopefully some of those people participating will enjoy the experience so much that they set their own blogs up.

Isn’t the internet a wonderful thing? Hoodlum Tribe (they who run Red Deer Club) broadcast a radio show every Wednesday from 9pm. You can communicate with them, in real time, via MSN Messenger.

It’s something that almost certainly wouldn’t have existed without the internet. Neither would you be able to watch the video below, of Down The Tiny Steps‘ performance.

Ever had to register before listening to a radio broadcast? You will if you want to listen to The Tube’s comeback.

Generally, the hour-long internet-only broadcast doesn’t really work. It’s too busy, there are too many presenters, too many sound clips and it’s all happening too quickly.

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I’ve written before about The Tube making an online radio comeback, which Media Guardian reports is being recording at Salford’s Blueprint Studios.

Here, for those old enough to reminisce, and for us young enough to laugh, is Madonna at the Hacienda nightclub in 1983, performing Holiday for The Tube.

Radio: the form of media least covered in these pages. Granted, Xfm and All FM have been given the odd mention, but media pre-occupations lie elsewhere.

The lead business story in today’s Manchester Evening News was of interest, however: the paper’s ‘ultimate owner’, Guardian Media Group, paid £60m for GCap Media’s Century stations.

The move saw former DJ John Myers regaining control of Century FM, the station he established, as well as Smooth FM. Capital Gold and Xfm – both still owned by GCap – will be relocated in the deal.

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