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Switching To Digital
In the last couple of weeks, there have been a lot of reports talking about television and radio digital adoption. Let’s go through a summary of the various points made recently. Television Digital Consensus Report video Networks Ltd (the company behind DSL-delivered Home Choice) commissioned a report from the London Business School into what the…
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Katrina
I think that like most people, I’ve spent the last week or so watching the news in complete and utter disbelief. It began on the Bank Holiday as the storm came ashore, and I must admit that I watched both the news channels over here as well as some of the streams from local TV…
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Drunk Purchases
It’s often occurred to me that shopping channels probably do a fair bit of their business after the pubs close and people stagger back home flick on the telly and suddenly realise that they really do need a Lean Green Grilling Machine or whatever. I once saw one of the guys from Bid(Up) TV actually…
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Commercial Competitor to Radio 4
Lord Birt, the former Director General of the BBC, and now a “blue skies thinker” for the government has been reported as saying that Radio 4 is a “national treasure”, “but would benefit from the challenge of a strong rival”. I have a couple of problems with this. First, I can’t find the exact quote…
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PSP Movies
Sony finally launches the PSP in the UK this week, and that’s good news for me, because it finally means that I might be able to get a cheap memory stick for my US import. But there are plenty of stories floating around about the so called success of UMD format films. They’re selling plenty…
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The Daily Show – Coming Soon To The UK
While Mediaguardian gets excited about the fact that the impending October 10 launch of More4 – the new digital channel from Channel 4 – is going to feature Boris Johnson’s dad on a regular basis, I’m far more excited about the fact that someone’s finally signed up The Daily Show. It’ll be interesting to see…
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I Predict A Riot
This year was V Festival’s 10th anniversary, and I think that one way or another I’ve been to the last nine of them, starting with V97 and Blur (featuring Phil Daniels doing his Parklife stuff). This year was inevitably our biggest ever effort with some fabulous music in the Virgin Radio tent making it harder…
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Copenhagen library
Copenhagen library, originally uploaded by adambowie.
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Family Guy: Stewie Griffin, The Untold Story
First some honesty – I’ve come very very late to the whole Family Guy thing. I’d been told how good it is, and like The Simpsons, I knew it to be well written. But also like The Simpsons, I’d not really cared that much. I don’t what it is in my bones that makes me…
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Home Is The Sailor
Another Hard Case Crime series novel, and it’s a brash and trashy as the rest of them. Swede is big and big-hearted sailor, fresh off the boat with a pocket full of cash after three years at sea. He’s planning on finding himself a wife and setting up a farm in the mid-west where he…
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Case Histories
I’d not read any of Kate Atkinson’s books before, although I’ve seen them riding high in the bestsellers for a while. So I didn’t really know what to expect when I started Case Histories. What we have is something akin to one of those Barbara Vine or Minnette Walters crime things you see on TV…
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Celebrity Spot of the Day
Former MI5 officer, David Shayler, in Old Street tube station. I assume that this isn’t top secret, and no lives are at risk by revealing this information…
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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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