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BAFTA Technical Foul-Up
And it was all going so well. Last year the BAFTA awards had the sound messed up for the BBC1 broadcast. There were apologies all around, and we were told that this wasn’t because the OB was put together by an independent. We were told that the production team had years of experience. This year,…
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Sky Player
In today’s Observer there’s a Sky ad that reads: “Want to watch Sky Sports live on your PC?” Then there’s a picture of a laptop showing some Premier League football. “Now you can with Sky Player.” Hmm. I’ve heard that claim before. Yes you can, as long as you subscribe to Sky Multiroom (i.e. pay…
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Ben Goldacre and LBC
This is interesting to watch, and perhaps shows how if you’re not careful, things will run away from you. Ben Goldacre, the writer of The Guardian’s Bad Science column and author of the very excellent Bad Science book, wrote about a programme broadcast by LBC presented by Jenni Barnett. I’ll say up front that I…
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Photography Is Not A Crime
Following on from Stephen Colbert’s humourous take on public photography in the, there’s slightly more distrurbing news in the British Journal of Photography (via Boing Boing). There are far too many cases of law enforcement officials wrongly stopping members of the public from taking photographs. We don’t yet live in a police state.
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Colbert Report on the Evil that is Photography
The Colbert ReportMon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Nailed ‘Em – Amtrak Photographer Colbert Report Full EpisodesPaul McCartney Appearance Funny Political VideosMore Funny Videos Via Thomas Hawk / Jack Schofield on the Twitters / and, er, watching The Colbert Report on FX in the UK.
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Radio On The TV
The new issue of Private Eye’s Ad Nauseum column highlights the recent BBC 6 Music TV ad which you may have seen, featuring Vampire Weekend on the soundtrack. (Also available here) It points out, as the person who uploaded the above version of the ad, that ad agency Rainey Kelly Campbell Roalfe/Y&R were probably, um,…
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Snow Stops Everything
Today saw an entirely expected and predicted fall of snow, and just what chaos it caused. Many tube lines were shut down. Seemingly, most of the rail lines going south from London were shut down. And most appallingly, the entire bus network was shut down. There wasn’t a red bus in London to be caught…
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iTunes and Audiobooks
In a lot of ways iTunes is really very good. Obviously it’s a painless way to purchase music, or convert your CDs to audiofiles for uploading to your iPod. It allows you to sync your library to your portable device relatively painlessly. And I must admit that the new Genius feature isn’t too bad (if…
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Chris Martin
(Needs to be seen large) Lots of live streaming (now over obviously) of Chris Martin from Coldplay at work. Strictly speaking, I shouldn’t have been taking photos, but I was standing behind non-performing band members, and couldn’t really resist. Most of the other photos have him gurning or are otherwise unlikely to be cleared by…
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RAJAR and All Things Digital
Everything happens at once. Yesterday, saw the publication of Q4 2008’s RAJAR results, and the eagerly awaited Digital Britain report. They’re not really related, but I should probably say something about both. From close to home, my employer, Absolute Radio, published its first results, and they clearly don’t make for comfortable reading. The numbers show…
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Digital Switchover – US Style
What on earth is going on in the States? As UK readers will almost certainly know, we’re currently embarking on digital switchover. That’s to say that by 2012, nobody will be able to watch TV in the UK without some kind of digital box. Sky hopes that will be via their system (and they posted…
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Kristen Schaal and Kurt Braunohler
You do watch Flight of the Conchords don’t you? What do you mean, you’ve been meaning to? Stop wasting your time on the internet and either go and look it up on YouTube, or better still go and get the DVDs of the first series right now (and the Radio 2 series, and the album).…
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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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