Category: Internet

Check out this Carl Hiaasen piece from today’s Miami Herald. Jon Stewart showed that clip on his show earlier this week, but I think we in the UK have missed it (aren’t torrents wonderful?). Rumsfield was so out of his depth in that arena it was a joke – and he appeared with the ridiculous…

I’ve got some kind of hosting problems at the moment – it seems that this page is being recorded as somewhere in the region of up to 100MB which kinda kills my hosting. I’m looking into the problem ASAP, but in the meantime, please bear with me, and I apologise in advance for any outtages.…

I’ve been spending waaaay too much time chasing down elusive prizes in the Ebay treasure hunt. Complicated to play, yet strangely compulsive… Been looking in forums and chat rooms.

Someone more cynical than me might think that Apple agreeing to carry the new Band Aid single for its standard 79p price, but donating an additional 70p for each sale they make, is something of a marketing gimmick. It’s worth noting that the official site sells it for £1.99 rather than the £1.49 Band Aid…

Thinktank Demos have today published a report detailing how enthusiasts and amateurs are changing the way we do things. So far I’ve only had a quick flick through the report, but it’s effectively an examination of those people who invest so much time in their hobbies and interests that they’re as good as the professionals.…

Firefox 1.0 was fully released today, and I’ve got to say that I’m loving it. Aside from a couple of sites that present me with problems (including the back engine to this very site – buttons in my version of Movabletype are an issue), the negatives are far outweighed by the positives. There’s all those…

Well there’s now a rough and ready print version of this page. Should work in any recent browser, and although it’s not perfect, it’s much better than what you’d have got when you tried to print before. Before I knocked this together, the home page came to 36 pages, mostly in a thin column. Now…

You may or may not know that Peter Jackson is currently remaking King Kong out in New Zealand, as his follow up to the Lord of the Rings. The people who did the Onering website, are behind KongisKing which features some fantastic video diary updates from Jackson and his cohorts. And unlike those people at…

So just to make sure that everyone knows that I’m really up with the new technology, I thought that I’d better acknowledge Podcasting. A few weeks back I was bemoaning the fact that it was really hard to find radio in a downloadable rather than streaming format. Well it’s out there and it’s called Podcasting.…

The Times today carries a piece (free at the moment, but likely to become subscription only) describing how the music industry, through its trade bodies, is lobbying Microsoft to include methods to prevent people from copying music in the new version of Windows – codenamed Longhorn. “One of the possible improvements that has been mooted…

I’m very pleased with myself. I’ve managed to set up an automatic process to record The World Today from the BBC World Service between 5.30am and 6.00am BST, move the file from one computer to another, convert it from mp2 to mp3, and then dump the said mp3 file onto my Palm, which is also…

Last night there was a music industry debate about PR and the whole music downloading thing. For some reason, I decided to go along (well Virgin has just launched a download chart, cunningly timed to extract maximum PR). It was less about the right or wrongs of downloading, but more about how the music industry…

Whilst compiling a reasonably detailed forthcoming entry on international TV audiences I came across this amazing map (PDF) entitled A World Divided by a Common Internet. It shows the haves and have nots of the world – visually demonstrating the “digital divide”.