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Bendy Busses
In London, as you may or may not know, they’ve been phasing out the old Routemasters and introducing bendy-busses. You know – the things that take up twice as much space as the old ones, and that don’t let you jump on and off whenever you like. Anyway, I still don’t quite understand ticketing on…
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Record Industry Loses Billions To Piracy – Yeah Right
So it seems that the record industry in the UK lost £650m in the last two year due to piracy. No it didn’t. The “shortfall” identified by TNS would simply not have been spent at all. I don’t doubt that the music was downloaded but that’s not the same as “losing money”. It’s money that…
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Reporting The Ricin Case
Last week Kamel Bourgass was jailed for 17 years for plotting to spread ricin on the streets of London. He’d been earlier convicted of the murder of a policeman, Detective Constable Stephen Oake, during a raid to a arrest him back in 2003. The trial had taken place in camera, and so it was only…
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Smokewatch
Sky News actually have an inset live video feed of the chimney at the Vatican out of which white or black smoke will appear, depending on whether or not a new Pope’s been chosen. Are they going to keep this up for possibly as long as the next few weeks?
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Outlaws
The comments and letters pages of trade magazine Broadcast have been bristling with columns and letters mainly expressing disbelief that the BBC have not commissioned a second series of Outlaws from World Productions. World are rather bitter about this. You know, a cynical person might think that there was some sort of organised campaign happening.…
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SwitchCo Launched
SwitchCo has now launched with a mightily impressive website! This is the company that’s going to responsible for getting us all to convert to digital. What that translates to is the company that gets the rap when things don’t all go quite as planned. It’s kept at arm’s length that way.
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Party Manifestos
In 2005, it seems to me that getting access to party manifestos during an election should be pretty straightforward. Just download them in an accessible and easy to use format that’s cross platform. Adobe’s PDF format would seem to be the choice to make. And most party’s have used it, with one very notable, and…
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Scary
Doctor Who is scary shocker!
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy
They thought it’d never be made. Lots of times it didn’t. But now it has. Finally the Hitchhiker’s film has arrived. Obviously this was a preview screening, and I was surprised by the scale of it, with it getting an Empire Leicester Square screening, with a queue winding through Leicester Square on arrival. This was…
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Su Doku
Su Doku or should that be Sudoku? Whichever, it’s the craze that’s sweeping the broadsheet-reading nation. And I was completely unaware of it until last Sunday. That was when I was looking in a bookshop and happened to notice a Su Doku puzzle book that seemed to be in the bestsellers section. A quick flick…
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Advert Lengths
I notice that Channel 4 have scheduled Desperate Housewives to last from 22:00 until 23:05 this evening – 65 minutes. And yet as an American programme, it actually only runs for between 42 and 43 minutes. Since we’re only allowed an average of 7 minutes of ads per hour in the UK, are C4 packing…
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The Indie Has A New Look
The new look Independent launched today. The fact that it’s moved from six to seven columns per page is absolutely an advertising thing since newspaper advertising is sold by the column inch. Get an extra column and you have all those extra inches to sell! But the paper did need a redesign. Nothing too radical,…
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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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