The 253rd edition of Script School Radio will continue the focus on recapping the SS Battle of the Indie Bands 2005 artists to date. Also:

- Drama ensues over OPML spec
- Does any legitimate, free PHP/MySQL hosting exist?
- Yahoo releases another niche browser and API: Y! Site Explorer
- XM, Sirius or neither?
- Whedon’s Serenity flying in theaters everywhere
- Cold Stone Creamery rocks!
- 500,000+ people subscribed to watch TV on their cell phones
- Rollyo part of a new breed of API mash-ups
- Annoying Microsoft video ads in Zinio appearing, auto-play enabled by default
- Google personalize adds “remove result” feature
- TiVO starts $150 early termination fee for new customers with rebates
- Warner Music wants to play hardball with iTunes over 2006 song pricing
- MusicGiants offers up to 1100k lossless files starting at $1.29 per track
- Internet advertising up 28% compared to first half of 2004
- Google removes the index count, says they are “more comprehensive”
- MSN flirting with Adwords-like program … in Singapore and France first, US to follow in October
- Skypers can call toll free numbers via SkypeOut for free in France, Poland, UK and USA — this means listeners outside USA/Canada can now call Script School radio live for free!
- Mac segment: Mac OS X update includes tabbed IM, Safari updates and more

The 253rd two hour of tech radio show starts at Script School 2pm PST / 5pm EST / 10pm GMT and your attendence and opinion is welcome and encouraged:
http://www.scriptschool.com/radio/ <– radio show feeds (look for the 24k and 56k links)
http://www.scriptschool.com/commons/ <– java chat
irc.scriptschool.com #scriptschool port 6667

Toll Free caller line (US and Canada): (800) 634-2718
Skype line: TDavid

## Hour #2: — Mainstream “Safe for work” –
(via webmastercookbook.com — LIVE commercial free, no carbs education) show #53 — starts at 3:30pm PST ###

A reality-based family-friendly webmaster e-learning show. Follow along as a Jowl learns webmastering and specifically how to create his very first website, step-by-step.

Drinks (cool stuff like RIAA-free music, free scripts, affiliate programs, websites, and more):
- PHP.net and php-scripts blog resource

Appetizers (hungry for knowledge, this will get you started)
- Spawn and Jowl learn write their first PHP script

Main Course (the meat and potatoes of the show)
- PHP script basic structure

Dessert (fun and fat-free stuff)
- assigning the week #1 to-do assignment

The Check (what did we learn today)
- checking Spawn and Jowl’s knowledge

90 minutes catering to adult webmasters and 30 minutes for mainstream webmasters every Friday … it’s the two hours of tech radio show starting at scriptschool.com