Month: April 2005

  • The Power Of Nightmares: The Movie

    It’s being re-edited to be shown as a film at Cannes!

  • Hoarding

    It’s stories like this that make me such a terrible hoarder.

  • Party Election Broadcasts

    In the run up to a general election, we’re bombarded with poster and newspaper ads for the various parties. But broadcasting rules prevent parties from buying advertising on radio and television. And rules over the number of candidates being fielded determine which parties get broadcast – even unpleasant ones like the BNP. But what has…

  • Russian Spam

    I seem to be getting a surprising amount of Russian spam in my Gmail account at the moment. And when I say Russian spam, I mean spam that’s actually in Cyrillic text. Very strange.

  • Shock Horror

    The Sun’s backed Blair for this election which is not remotely unexpected. So I was disappointed to hear it given such import on the news this morning. The Sun only back winners, and in a two horse race, they’re not going 50-1 outsider. What would have happened if The Sun had backed Howard and Blair…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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?

  • 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.…

  • 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.

  • 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…