Category: Media

I totally sympathise with this post from Boing Boing. The copyright warnings at the beginning of films is a relatively new phenomena, but just like the record companies, we’re being treated as potential criminals rather than innocent members of the public. I love the idea of taking flash photos of the copyright notice. Indeed I…

I’m looking forward to this!

While on the one hand the US media is doing a sterling job unearthing atrocities taking place in Iraq at the hands of US troops, and Donald Rumsfeld refuses to go (free registration required), at the same time the lack of free speech is amazing. Check out this article (free registration required) to find out…

does no channel repeat Remmington Steele?

Never mind Ron Atkinson’s atrocious outburst, this is far worse. This bloke runs a national newspaper…

Thursday is Broadcast day, so here are my highlights from today’s issue: SMG want the BBC to hand over Radio 3’s FM frequency allocation to Virgin Radio (no comment!)… Five want to show a live Caesarean birth on TV (and there was me thinking it was an emergency procedure, so how can it be planned…

Ofcom has today published its report on digital switchover, looking at moving from analogue to digital. Ofcom put digital penetration at 50.2% of households, with satellite making up 28.9%, cable 9.1% and Freeview 12.2%. The report certainly makes for interesting reading, and it makes 30 main findings and recommendations. I didn’t know that Berlin switched…

Today’s Telegraph is the first edition to appear with a New Yorks Times supplement. Under an agreement announced a couple of days ago the Telegraph is publishing a weekly broadsheet supplement from the NY Times. It’s a strange pair of bedfellows, since the Telegraph is just a tad on the right-wing side, and I think…

Yes that’s right, this isn’t a repeat. It’s an All New entry. BBC3 is the latest channel to go down this ridiculous and mis-used path. During half-time in the football last night I was flicking around and stumbled over BBC3’s Celebrity Boat Race thing. Obviously an entirely pointless and uninteresting programme, but championed below the…

I’d think that if I was someone reasonably senior in an organisation, and were going to send a letter for publication in a trade magazine, that I might check to see if they were willing to publish it. So if, for example, I worked for Identica, and wanted to comment on the Dasani tap water…

FT Creative Media has an interview (somewhere here with a subscription) with Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger about the future of The Guardian. A couple of weeks ago, The Guardian came out as not going down the tabloid route. The suggestion is that a mid-sized paper, somewhere between a broadsheet and a tabloid, might be a…

So last night the Lord of the Rings swept the boards. Let’s see how I did from my predictions: Best Film – Lord of the Rings: Return of the King – CORRECT Best Actor – Sean Penn, Mystic River – CORRECT Best Actress – Charlize Theron, Monster – CORRECT Best Director – Peter Jackson, Lord…

Ray Snoddy has a good piece in today’s Marketing magazine talking about the BBC Silly Season that we are now beginning to endure (Here somewhere, but you’ll need a subscription). I mentioned this myself the other day after the Sunday papers went a bit mad. Snoddy suggests that these stories will continue until the government…