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Trying to Decode Kindle Stats
Amazon has been trumpeting its latest Kindle stats, proclaiming that it has sold 143 Kindle books for every 100 hardback books sold over the last three months. I say “stats”, but they actually keep their cards very close to their chest. They’re mostly talking about ratios. And they’re not necessarily comparing like with like. While…
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RAJAR MIDAS Survey
Note that this is cross posted from the Absolute Radio Onegoldensquare.com blog. I wouldn’t have access to these figures otherwise! And a hat-tip to Matt Deegan for suggesting looking at iPhone only figures in relation to radio apps. Yesterday RAJAR published the topline findings (PDF) from the latest MIDAS research. MIDAS – for the uninitiated…
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A Video
This is a short video I made a few weeks ago at the seaside in Broadstairs. Featured are my brother and his family, so you may well not be interested. But it’s shot on Super 8 – Kodak Ektachrome 100D to be precise – and filmed with the same Canon Auto Zoom 318M that my…
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Exposed and Sally Mann
A not altogether succesful photo trying to shoe-horn in a CCTV camera with Tate Modern. There are a couple of very good photographic exhibitions on in London at the moment that I’ve been to in the last couple of weeks, but both include some quite “difficult” material. Exposed at Tate Modern, is subtitled voyeurism, surveillance…
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Ed Vaizey on Digital Radio
As mentioned yesterday, Ed Vaizey, the new Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries, has today given a speech at a London conference outlining the new government’s support for digital radio, and launching an action plan. How his speech has been been interpreted depends on where you read about it. At Media Guardian the headline…
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The Future of Radio
I’m going to do something here that’s very dangerous. I’m going to conflate two separate stories into one. But follow me through. They are two separate stories, but there are commonalities and themes that run through them. Today’s Daily Mail (listen to Monday’s I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue for more details on what this…
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Have You Picked Up Your Copy of Amateur Photographer?
This week’s Amateur Photographer magazine is well worth picking up. It comes with a free lens cloth, on which is printed a very polite note to any police officers of PCSOs who may stop you for – er – taking photos. As you may or may not be aware, more and more photographers, both amateur…
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Identity
What should we make of Identity, ITV1’s big new police thriller series? It stars another refugee from The Wire, Aidan Gillen, as well as Keeley Hawes who’s fresh from finishing Ashes to Ashes. The series is set in the plush offices of Scotland Yard’s Identity unit. Hawes’ DSI Martha Lawrence has had to take on…
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6 Music Saved
Well – “the case has not been made” for closing it down. So reads one of the lines of the BBC Trust’s Interim conclusions. In other words, 6 Music has been saved. On Twitter, the excitement is already palpable. Now though, the station faces the future. How many of its newly found audience will stay…
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Grotesque Television
Stage 1 of the Tour de France had finished in a series of crashes, and Rafa had wrapped up another Wimbledon title. What else was there in the way of sport to watch on television? I strayed over to ESPN America, where usually I’d find something like live baseball at this time of year. But…
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2001: A Space Odyssey – Live at the Royal Festival Hall and the See Further Festival
2010 is the 350th anniversary of the Royal Society. We’ve had a special series of In Our Time earlier in the year, the president of the Society, Martin Rees has given the Reith Lectures, and there’ve been numerous talks and lectures. Over the weekend, the Royal Society’s annual summer exhibition moved to the Southbank Centre…
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World Cup Coverage in the Middle East
You may be sick of the World Cup now having seen today’s debacle. But I’m a bit confused about the coverage of the World Cup in the Middle East. From what I can gather, the rights to the whole Arab speaking region – with the exception of Israel of course – were sold to Al…
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Yellowface/All The Lovers In The Night
Yellowface by R F Kuang I first came across R F Kuang with last year’s very enjoyable Babel, an alternate history of the British Empire told in a world where magic exists and is controlled by an elite group of individuals. Yellowface is very different, but no less enjoyable. It’s a book about books, and…
Hadrian’s Wall
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