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Google News Recommendations
When did Google News start analysing my recent Google searches and recommending appropriate news content? Very clever, although this might highlight certain privacy issues. Yes I know that with myself logged into Google it’s tracking my search history, but do I want that in my news?
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BSG Webisodes Outside US
An excellent piece on the stupidity of making something available free in some territories but not others. Surely we’ve now reached the stage where as much as possible, things should be made available internationally? In the meantime, you drive your customers to “other places” to get their fix. And to think that I’m now seeing…
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Times Today
Just a reminder that one of the best films you’re ever likely to get free is inside The Times today. In The Mood For Love is inside every copy. Grab one now! And yes, I know that this makes me sound like a Murdoch shill.
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Strictly Come Dancing on the Red Eye
The BBC brings news of the return of Strictly Come Dancing in October. I won’t dwell on the celebrities they have this time around, except to mention that all four usual judges return including Len Goodman and Bruno Toniolli. I mention those two in particular because they also make up two thirds of the US…
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Broadcast Blog
Broadcast has a blog. Broadcast has RSS feeds. Sadly they don’t have an RSS feed to their blog. Brilliant!
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Roseanna
A few weeks ago, I read what turned out to be the second in the Martin Beck series of novels by Sjöwall and Wahlöö. The first is Roseanna, in which we’re introduced to the detective and his colleagues. This book, in a newly published imprint, is introduced by Henning Mankell, a long time favourite of…
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The Death of Achillies
The fourth in the Erast Fandorin sequence sees our Holmesian Russian hero returning from the far east with a Japanese colleague in tow. In Moscow he’s given the job Collegiate Assessor, but no sooner than that has happened than his old friend General Sobolev is found dead in vaguely suspicious circumstances. At first, we are…
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Nudity in America
This piece from the BBC Editor’s blog really explains the ludicracy of the situation in US broadcasting with regard to nudity.
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Ashley Cole
Wow. Isn’t Ashley Cole a bitter man? I think we’re getting a very biased and one-sided view in the first extract of his book – a book, incidentally, I certainly won’t be reading. It’s called My Defence. He bemoans the fact that fans were still singing Henry’s name and not his at the end of…
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Newspaper Bribery Returns
September’s here, and the newspapers are desperate to remind everyone coming back from their holidays that they should continue to buy a daily newspaper. They don’t do this with news (well aside from book buyups and the soap exclusives). No, they do it with free gifts! Yes, it’s that time of year when you linger…
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Returning to Little Miss Sunshine
I’ve just read The Guardian’s review by Peter Bradshaw of Little Miss Sunshine, and I wanted to quickly say that it’s so way off base, it’s actually badly wrong. Bradshaw gives the film a paltry two stars out of five. If he can possibly direct me to a better comedy this year, I’d be really…
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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…
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