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ID Card Pilot
So where abouts is the small market town where they’re going to test ID cards? I don’t suppose that it’ll take too long to find out. More civil liberties disappear…
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MITOCW
This is what the web’s about!
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Spiders
Spiders is an excellent web comic that I’ve seen referenced a couple of times in the last week.
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Wilfred Thesiger
When one is awarded one’s degree at the ceremony, in my case in a large tent on the grounds of Bath University, it’s common that some great and good person is given an honorary gong. It was with great pleasure that Wilfred Thesiger was there to receive an honorary degree of some sort (I say…
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Tories Would Shut Down BBC Website
Well how about that? The Tories would close down the BBCi website and BBC Three according to a story on Mediaguardian. That’s the way to make yourself popular with the voters. Shut down the fourth most visited internet site in the world. Why should we get the BBC News free? It seems a crime that…
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Psychic Nonsense
Living TV is making a very good living with all it’s “psychic” nonsense. This weekend was “paranormal weekend” with such shows as Street Psychic, 6th Sense with Colin Fry, and The Antiques Ghost Show (which I thought was a made up name when I first read it), as well as such American fare as Crossing…
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Between the Lines
My tape reruns have reached the end of series 2, and I guess that by common consent, the quality goes a little downhill from here on – well at the very least, it goes off the rails a bit. (I know that I’ve inadvertantly taped over at least one episode somewhere along the lines, so…
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The Two Towers
Well I bought my copy of The Two Towers on Saturday, but I’ve still to hear the real story about the ins and outs of Sainsburys apparently breaking the embargo on Friday, and all the other chains feeling that they have to follow suit. Only East Anglian Daily Times shows up when you do an…
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Reliable Sources
What a pity that CNN Europe doesn’t broadcast Reliable Sources over here. There really are few media outlets for the discussion of media. About the only place you can get anything is on Radio 4’s The Message. Years ago there was Ray Snoddy’s show on Channel 4, and the various follow ups of sorts. But…
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BBC Creative Archive
Was I unnecessarily negative about this idea the other day? There’s quite a lot of detail about the whys and wherefores of how it might work here. Sadly I can see lots of David Attenbrough and Simon Schama footage being available to download, rather than all those Plays For Today that I fancy seeing. Danny…
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Commandante
Nice piece about Oliver Stone’s forthcoming film about Fidel Casto, Commandante which has so far not been shown by HBO (yup – the same channel I was praising earlier). Stone was railing against possible media censorship if Americans are allowed in to buy British media concerns. With any luck the documentary will finally appear with…
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Richard Ingrams
Yesterday’s Observer carried an interesting piece by Richard Ingrams – Ppp-Up TV. Ingram’s main point was that Stuart Murphy, BBC Three’s wunderkind controller, has been quoted as saying that BBC Three’s news directly targeted its 16-34 audience, and it did that by skewing its news towards stories that specifically interested them. These, he’s reported as…
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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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