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London Evening Newspapers
The battle for London newspapers is really warming up now, with news that to combat News International’s thelondonpaper, Associated my morph the currently free lunchtime Standard Lite into London Lite and extend it’s distribution to take it head to head with the thelondonpaper. Like thelondonpaper, it too is going to be distributed by hand –…
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Little Miss Sunshine
Little Miss Sunshine is the debut feature of directing team Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris who’ve previously specialised in music videos. So does this mean that this comedy is some kind of XXX/Fast & Furious MTV edited affair? No it does not. The film has a superb cast featuring Steve Carrell, Greg Kinnear, Toni Collette…
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BBC Vodcasts on the PSP
I noted the other day that the BBC had launched “vodcasts” of some of its news programming including a weekly Newsnight summary. I also mentioned that it was disappointing that the BBC hadn’t made the format available as anything other than an iPod friendly mp4. Well of course mp4 files play on plenty of hardware.…
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Threat Level
Threat Level. It sounds like a bad action TV series doesn’t it? Well for years now America has had its own Homeland Security Advisory Scheme. Here’s what it looks like: Currently America’s on Elevated – the middle rung if you like. Obviously, we in the UK were really left out by this. It might be…
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Superman Returns
Today I went to see Superman Returns at my local multiplex. More of that in a minute. I just thought I’d highlight what a joy it now is to pay my money and watch a film at the cinema. It begins with the box office. There’s some stat that I’ve seen at work that says…
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thelondonpaper
Lots of news keeps coming out about News International’s new free evening newspaper – thelondonpaper (yes – it’s all lower case seemingly). It’s going to be distributed, at least initially, by a team of 700 people in zone 1 of London. They’re talking about 400,000 papers a day. Because Transport for London has yet to…
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Noel Edmonds
I note that the Daily Mail serialised Noel Edmonds’ new book “Positively Happy” last week, having first apologised for something they said about it. Edmonds talks about this in an interview with The Guardian today. All very lovely, but I had a bit of a flick through the book yesterday in a shop. OK –…
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YouTube Bigger Than MySpace – But Both Full Of Copyright Material?
Today’s Media Guardian reports how Alexa is now showing YouTube as having overtaken MySpace (note to self: when you create your Web 2.0, or even 3.0, company, ensure that it’s two words with no space and two capitals – it’s the law). I’m sure it’s fantastic news for YouTube, a bit like the way that…
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BBC Vodcasts
The BBC has released some news “vodcasts” of things like Newsnight and the News at Ten. Except that these are weekly highlights packages rather than full nightly editions. Still better than nothing. But I wish I could get them to work on my PSP. I don’t have a video iPod (or a normal one for…
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Cycling Licence Plates
You just know we’re entering silly season when you read stories like this. Ken Livingstone apparently believes that getting cyclists to fit licence plates so that they could be fined for infractions like jumping red lights or cycling on the pavement would be a good idea. I suspect that as this comment came during a…
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Landis on Drugs?
So what to make of the drug charges that newly crowned Tour de France winner Floyd Landis is chasing? I was amazed to read that it was Landis who’d been charged. At some point yesterday I heard a vague radio report that one of the riders in this year’s Tour had been found positive for…
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G24
I was wondering only the other day when G24, the Guardian’s new print on demand PDF service would start. Well it seems to have started today. I’ve got to say that is a great idea, and just right for commuters and people at lunchtime. If it’s automated, then all the better. The content already exists…
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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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