Category: Internet
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ITV
Far too much has been written about Kerry Katona and her behaviour on This Morning a couple of days ago. I can’t be bothered to go into it, and if she is ill, I’m not about to link to YouTube clips of her being ill on national television. That’s despite whatever I might think about…
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Abbey Road Studios
We made a video for work the other day at Abbey Road studios. I thought I’d share it here too:
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Shoddy Google Ads
There really are some poor Google Ads kicking about at the moment, and the worst of them seem to be appearing in Gmail (for me at least). Here’s the latest example of something that’s thoroughly misrepresentative on many levels. “Eastenders is Axed”? No it’s not. The link is to a strange site called “just-the-issues.com/eastenders”. If…
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Radio Pop
Radio Pop was something I first saw at last year’s Radio At The Edge conference. It describes itself as “social radio listening.” Once logged in (and it uses Open ID – which might be good if it was ever made clear to the broader public how it should be used), you start listening to a…
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Changes
You may notice that it all looks a bit different around here. On the otherhand, you may well be reading a feed in which – hopefully – nothing’s changed. The look and feel of this blog has basically been unchanged for nearly six years. So with great trepidation I’ve finally completed an overhaul started nearly…
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Is Google Advertising Dodgy Adobe Products?
We all know that internet advertising is booming, and much of that growth is coming from “search” – that is, advertising that you see dependent on your search terms on Google, Yahoo, MSN or wherever. But to what extent should the advertisers be checked out by Google and its ilk before that advertising goes live?…
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Sites Having Problems (Like Flickr right now)
Earlier today, someone on an email group I’m in asked if everyone was having trouble with a specific site or whether it was just him. Quick as a flash he was directed to downforeveryoneorjustme.com which does exactly what it says on the proverbial tin. So when I came to look at Flickr a few minutes…
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Orange LiveRadio
Orange has announced its LiveRadio – effectively an Orange branded Wi-Fi radio. You pair it up with your wireless router and away you go listening to internet radio from around the globe. So far, so normal. You can buy a cheaper device elsewhere. But the Orange LiveRadio does allow you to purchase music from the…
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ITV on iTunes
ITV is dipping its toe in the iTunes water by making available some of its back catalogue on the iTunes television store. This is no bad thing, but I think that it does again highlight some of the issues that dealing with Apple can introduce. Despite some of the series being over forty years old…
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BBC News Homepage
So what are we to make of the new look BBC News homepage that launched this morning? It’s quite possibly my single most visited site – even more so than the Google homepage since I search from within my toolbar – so I guess it’s always quite a significant change to me when the BBC…
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Podcasting Forecasts
As a follow-up to RAJAR’s recent research into podcasting, the US based eMarketer.com has just released some forecasts for podcast revenues for the next five years. The full report retails for $695, so you’ll excuse me if I limit my notes to the findings they publish on their blog. They suggest that total audience for…
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A Plea To Web Designers
If you’re going to produce a print CSS file for your blog entries (nicely formatting a print version, and removing unnecessary page furniture), please include the comments! The two guiltiest candidates that I’ve come across – i.e. blogs that I read but don’t conform – are the BBC’s, and those of Guardian Unlimited. If you…
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Tin-Pan Dead End Alley
“Pandora’s ex-customers in the UK will be wondering why the service they want can’t be catered for by the recording industry. And they are not alone – for what are the millions of illicit peer-to-peer file-sharers, but a huge potential market? Internet users are showing the industry how they want their music in the digital…