About This Site

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Hello, Miles here.

If you've come to this site deliberately you'll probably know me as the webby bloke on Steve Wright's show on Radio 2. This site was launched in May 2004 as a kind of companion to the Website of the Day pages on the official Radio 2 site. You'll find a lot of the same content here, but this isn't part of the BBC site, so bear in mind that what you read here is my opinion, and not that of the BBC.

What's the site for? Three things really:

* To provide more information about the Website of the Day selections than I am able to do on the Radio 2 site, and to make it easier for you to find links to those sites. All links are archived here both by date and by category.

* To showcase various sites which haven't featured on Website of the Day. Some of those sites may feature on the show at some point in the future, the rest are sites which I like but which aren't suitable for the show either because they're too commercial and you have to pay to use them, or because there's not enough to say about them to fill five minutes of radio

* To show how easy it is to create a simple site using a 'blog' service. For those that don't know, blog is short for web log. At its simplest a blog is a web-based, regularly updated journal, on which the newest content always appears at the top of the page. Blogs also typically carry copious links to other sites. Some blogs are updated many times a day, some only when their owner feels they have something to say. And blogs usually provide a space for readers to add comments, making it easy for readers to interract with a site's creator. Website of the Day's guide to some of the different Blogging services is here.

My plan is to add links to this site as I find them, so hopefully you'll find far more good stuff here than I am able to cover on the radio.

Please feel free to email me or use the comments system on this site to suggest sites for me to feature on the programme. When posting a comment please bear in mind that your suggestions (and your email address if you enter it) will be visible to other users of this site.

Bye for now
Miles

Comments

[Mac]

Hi Miles

Thanks for some really interesting webby bits.

Do take a look at BookCrossing, a release-to-the-wild scheme for books
http://www.bookcrossing.com

I use this to tag & recycle all my old paperbacks and sometime, just sometimes, I get to see where they have gone http://bookcrossing.com/mybookshelf/MooseOnTheTable

Recently I left one in the back of a cab and it went off to Mexico on holiday !
http://bookcrossing.com/journal/2076244/MooseOnTheTable/book_Absolute-Altitude-Martin-Buckley

There's a press section too:
http://bookcrossing.com/press

ATB
Mac

[bob tyrone mikytre]

chicken salsa is not eaten much why?

[sarah lucas]

Usually catch the last half hour of the show on my way home from school and i love it, good guests and excellent variety of music. Always listen to the website of the day with interest and sometimes use them in school eg trip round the body. Dont like the archive though, catagories are too wide....couldn't you add an alphabetical search as well?

[Charles Ryan]

I would wish to have my website considered for the Site of the day, and hope that you will be able to inform me of what I need to do to make this possible.

It is www.jobswap.net The site is free to enrole and is created for people who travel some distance to their workplace. It allows other people who also travel considerable distances to contact each other and swapjobs to be nearer their home saving a small fortune in travelling expences.

Should you require additional information, please do not hesitate to make contact.

Yours sincerely

Charles

[Shellie]

Hi there Miles

Thankfully because of the nature of my job I get to listen to Steve Wright nearly every afternoon, and try to check out all of the websites you mention at least once a week.
Thanks for the Book Crossing Website - I think it's a fantastic site and having only heard about it yesterday, I rushed straight to my pc to join up.

A site I can recommend for book lovers everywhere is www.Greenmetropolis.co.uk
This is where you can 'recycle' books cheaply (or in my case it's an addiction I buy at least one book a day!)but not only can you buy books here you can sell them too! It's a fantastic site for finding all the books you've ever wanted to read.
They are also envirnonmentally friendly as for every book you buy they plant a tree!

Blessed are the Bees

Shellie

[Kelvin Fagan]

The 1471 website is ok, but I always just type mystery telephone numbers straight into GOOGLE and it will always give a clue to the source of the call!!

Kelvin

[Pete]

Hi Miles,
You find some great sites and this one is good unless you want to go from Cobham in Surrey to the Isles of Scilly......the site sends you via Ireland!
Cheers,
Pete.

[Pete]

Hi Miles,
I gave you the wrong url in my previous message.
This is the site that sends you via Ireland from Cobham Surrey to the Isles of Scilly.

Cheers,

Pete

[Willie Taylor]

Just a quick word of thanks for all the many good, funny, helpful web site of the days, you have provided, why to be honest the BBC to give u a TV program of your own all to do with the internet, promoting all the good things about it.
So many people now have internet access, its about time the BBC moved into the 21st century and had a prime time show with you as host providing info to people who are not sure what to do where to go etc, what a dam good show it would be.................Thanks

[Jane]

Hi Miles

I'm getting married in August and I've been having a nightmare of a time trying to set various wedding lists for all my friends and relatives (I was finding the experience of going to the shops at the week-end or after work a real nightmare) anyway I came across this website called www.what2getme.com and its great coz I can create my list from the comfort of my home, send it to my relatives in America and add or delete things as I go along. I think it would be a great site to share with all those getting married.

Thanks
Jane
Ps I think your shows great! :-)

[The What2GetMe Team]

Hi Miles,

We check into your show most days to see if we've made it into your website of the day and we are glad to see that one of our members has posted a comment regarding our website. Not only is our facility suitable for birthdays but can also be used for weddings, engagements, baby showers - Infact any gift receiving occasion. We have unique online GETME lists that you can create and share via the internet with family and friends and because we offer a completely independent service you can list any item from any High Street store or website. What are you waiting for - create your GETME lists!

[Susan Cockburn]

Could anyone tell me the web site address for where you can get the information on rules for games. I heard it on the radio but I just cannot remember the address

[dave Bright]

Hello Miles,
can I recomend a site to you?
Its probably not the sort of site that you could preview on radio 2s web site of the day, because its called www.wankerdrivers.com
Somewhere to vent your spleen against bad drivers.

Thanks
dave

[Andrew Malek]

Hi Miles,

May I suggest www.malektips.com as a Website of the Day? MalekTips offers over 2,300 tips for Windows (including Windows XP), digital camera and photography, DOS, Microsoft Word, anti-spyware, Internet Explorer, electronic mail, the Internet, buying tips, MP3 players, and more.

Thanks for your time,

- Andrew

[David Poole]

Hi Miles

Stumbled across the "NASA World Wind" web site (http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/) which provides an excellent free program that lets you zoom from satellite altitude into any place on Earth.
Great fun but at 180Mb only for the broadband enabled, or very patient!

Hope it proves of interest to others.

Great show

Regards David

[Lloyd]

Miles

The Google maps URL doesn't point to anything. Also, nothing obvious on the Google.co.uk page that points to any maps.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Lloyd

[Charles]

Would like to recommend a usefull site for people who have to travel long distances to get to work, its called jobswap.net. It can save you a fortune in petrol and travelling costs and unnecessary time away from home. please take a look at it.
Great show and features,
Charles

[Elizabeth]

Hi Miles,

Have you seen the site about garden gnomes? www.freethegnomes.com. Its mental. Its about rescuing gnomes from peoples gardens to free them from oppression. You should stick it in the satire section of your website.

Liz

[Alan Williams]

Hi Miles
Just wondered if you would feature my site promoting video email.

the address is www.nowyouseeme.co.uk and whilst there you can get everything you need to use videoemail. Its as easy as Record Stop and Save. All the software is provided and from as little as £7 per month you are good to go.

Also there is the opportunity to buy a franchise to offer the video email package. So if anyone fancies a career change or to work from home they can give it a go!

Thanks
Alan

[Darren Lennon]

Hi Miles have you tried the StumbleUpon extension available with Firefox? It links you to sites recommended by other users based on your preferences. I've found some useful (and some not so useful!) sites using it. Oh and thanks for recommending the Firefox browser. It's just a shame that 10% of websites don't work with it.

[Peter Williams]

Thought that John O Groats was the furthest point north on the British mainland, you'd be wrong! Ever wondered where the centre of England really is? Well we have the answer as my esteemed colleague John Davies & I are testing a new GPS device and software due out in October. We are visiting the "cardinal points" of the British Isles. The furthest North, South, East and West along with the centres. All in a week. If you really want the trivia on the 4 corners of our country then visit our blog which is being updated as-it-happens, http://www.autoroute2006.com

[Walt]

Miles,

I would like to suggest the following site for your consideration.

Optical Illusions Etc...
http://illusionsetc.blogspot.com/

Challenge your skills of perception at this cool site, which is all about the many different forms of Optical Illusion. Whether these illusions are conveyed through fractals, architecture, art, or other mediums, they are bound to remind you that seeing "is not believing."

Thank you for your time,

[Liza Drury]

Hi Miles,

I would like you to concider this website for your website of the day. www.remembermoi.com

It's fun and I will promise to send you a T-Shirt if you do give feedback. (I bet you cant wait to receive it :-))Thanks.

[Lynne Pearce]

Heard you on Radio 2 and thought I would give your site a visit. I love the Muglets site and so does everyone else I've sent it to and I've got some brilliant advice from Money Saving Expert message boards on fixing my computer! YOUR ATTRACTIONS AND DIVERSIONS SITE IS BRILLIANT !

lynne

[Mat Lawrence]

skill exchange is an introduction service that enables people to exchange skills and trades by bartering. You may be looking for some Music Lessons, Computer Training or Home Improvements, and you can trade your skills in return.
Keep up the fantastic work.