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Amazon Prime Music – Filling A Hole
Back over the summer, Amazon launched its Prime Music offering in the UK. Anybody who pays Amazon £79 a year, for it’s free next day delivery service, and video streaming service, now also has access to more than a million tracks and hundreds of playlists to stream via the web, Fire TV or a mobile…
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The Sleigh List
In the last couple of days I’ve read a couple of pieces on when is the right time to start playing Christmas music on the radio. David Lloyd has updated a blog he wrote a couple of years ago, including some research Orion Media conducted on this very matter, alongside various other pieces of research…
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BBC Store – Initial Thoughts
After much ballyhoo, the BBC Store is finally with us, and well, um, it sells downloads and streams. You buy episodes rather than rent them – although the prices are much of a muchness really with television. And then you play them back via the web, or in due course, mobile apps. To be honest,…
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Shetland
In many respects, I chose the wrong time of year to visit the Shetland Islands. Going in November means that the sun rises at around 0800 and sets at about 1545. So not too many daylight hours to see the landscape. Then there’s the weather – if you’re going to remote northerly islands in November,…
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Responding to Consultations
If there’s one thing the internet has made easier, it’s responding to consultations. Previously the domain of just the time rich, today it can be much easier. Indeed, only a small amount harder than signing some internet petition. This week I’ve responded to two consultations on wildly differing topics, and I thought I’d repost what…
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Google and Podcasts – More Thoughts
This is a follow up to the post I wrote a few days ago when it was first announced that Google was getting into podcasts. Go away and read that if you’ve not already done so! A few things are worth noting that I hadn’t quite understood initially. Google Serving Podcasts and Metrics It’s very…
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Obelisk, Trent Park
Trent Park Obelisk from Adam Bowie on Vimeo. I spent a little of Saturday shooting this drone video with my DJI Phantom 3 Advanced. Go HD full screen!
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Google and Podcasts
This week we heard the first news that Google is starting to get into the podcast game. Recode had the first decent report on the move. Currently, Apple dominates podcasts. Indeed, the word “podcast” might seem to imply to casual listener, that listening to a podcast means having an actual “iPod” to listen to them…
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RAJAR Q3 2015
This post is brought to you in association with RALF from DP Software and Services. I’ve used RALF for the past 8 years, and it’s my favourite RAJAR analysis tool. So I’m delighted to be able to bring you this analysis in association with it. For more details on RALF, contact Deryck Pritchard via this…
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The Stone Tape
Nigel Kneale is perhaps not as recognised a name as he should be. He was one of the UK’s major screenwriters for 50 years writing popular fare including in particular the Quatermass series. He adapted George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, in perhaps the definitive 1954 Rudolph Cartier screen adaptation (still unreleased on DVD despite at least…
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Cycling Lights
The clocks have gone back, and so, while it was getting dark before when I returned home, we’re now in guaranteed darkness – at least if you finish work after 5.30pm or so. And as ever, it appears a lot of fellow cyclists really haven’t thought about their lights for a long time. Yesterday, as…
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MC Escher and Lee Miller
Last weekend saw me visiting a couple of exhibitions that don’t really have a great deal in common – although both artists will have been vaguely contemporaries – but are both of interest. The Amazing World of MC Escher is said to be the first every exhibition of Escher’s work in the UK. The exhibition…
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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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