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Please Apple – Do Something
No – this isn’t yet another post about the release of a new mobile phone. This is far more important. This is about Apple’s iPods. Actually, it’s not even really about that. You see love or loathe Apple, broadly speaking the iPod is a great device. It does the job it was designed for simply…
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Misinterpreting Research Figures
If you read the right sort of newspapers, you couldn’t help but fail to notice that the fifth and final series of The Wire premiered on FX channel in the UK this week. Then this morning, the various media sites, including Mediaguardian publish the fact that “only” 38,000 people watched the show last night. More…
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Bonekickers
Victorian street somewhere. Indeed I recall once watching a now forgotten film in Bath’s Little Theatre which actually featured that very cinema! So it was exciting to learn of a major new BBC1 drama series set in and around Bath, using (an un-named) Bath University as a major location. What’s more, the drama comes from…
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Heroes on the BBC
The recent news was that the BBC has bought “lifetime rights” to Heroes. This essentially means that Sky or another broadcaster won’t be able to come in and outbid the Beeb. I expect that also means that the BBC is also compelled to buy future series whether they’d like to or not. It was a…
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Copyright Again
Now it seems that the EU has decided that artists and performers should get 95 years’ copyright on their performances following an enormous amount of lobbying on behalf of the record industry (which also does quite nicely out of this). This is a massive mistake, and let’s hope that the UK government doesn’t meekly fall…
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Radio Sitcom
I see from today’s Broadcast that ITV2 has commissioned “FM” a 6 x 30 minute sitcom about a “neurotic indie DJ” who works at Skin FM. The sitcom will apparently feature real bands and current tracks which is quite an interesting idea – if you think about it, with the exception of trails, sports montages…
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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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Mediaguardian 100
Like all those interminable list programmes which Channel 4 doesn’t seem to run quite as often as it once did, Mediaguardian today published its list of the Media Top 100 2008. Of course it’s largely designed to rile large numbers of the actual people in the list who are lower than they believe that they…
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London to Brighton
Not the official one, but a group of us headed off to Brighton from Clapham Common bright and early this morning. In general terms, this isn’t particularly exceptional. There’s an official race that takes place every year in aid of the British Heart Foundation that attracts tens of thousands of competitors, but to put it…
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AM-FM Broadcasting is ‘A Form of Piracy’
Here’s a remarkable story from Wired. It refers to ongoing talks in the US where the record industry is trying to make the radio industry pay royalties to singers and musicians. Unlike the UK, where both songer writers and the performing artists separately get paid by radio stations, in the US only the songwriters get…
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I Think I’m Being Watched
You’d think that this was an incredibly ironic statement on our society, but if it is, it must have passed TFL by. You can see the original work here – it’s part of an exhibition called About 60 Miles of Beautiful Views by Anna Barriball. The phrases in the series come from the back of…
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Digital Radio Working Group – Interim Report
If you’re at all interested in the future of radio in this country – then you might want to read this interim report which has just shown up on the DCMS website. In summary there are two sets of key things to take from this: – DAB should become the primary platform for all national,…
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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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