Month: March 2008

  • BBC News Homepage

    So what are we to make of the new look BBC News homepage that launched this morning? It’s quite possibly my single most visited site – even more so than the Google homepage since I search from within my toolbar – so I guess it’s always quite a significant change to me when the BBC…

  • Comments

    A few weeks ago John Naughton explained some his reasons for not accepting comments on his blog. And I have no problem with that. Although it’s a lot easier for me to correct errors if comments are allowed (Photoshop Express is available to people on UK ISPs, although the dropdown when registering is limited to…

  • iGizmo

    Dennis Publishing has just started “the WORLD’S FIRST fully interactive digital magazine dedicated to bringing you the very latest and best in consumer technology.” The second issue is out this week. It’s called iGIZMO, and it’s dreadful. Dennis has previously had success with a magazine called Monkey which is a similarly interactive title aimed at…

  • The Orphanage

    I went to see The Orphanage today, and I’ll get onto that shortly. But first, can I just highlight what a joyless experience Cineworld made it for me. It began when I phoned the cinema’s automated ticket booking line. As is the way with these things, it’s all voice activated these days, which invariably means…

  • Heston Blumenthal

    Channel 4 outbid the BBC for Heston Blumenthal. He’s said to have been offered £1m – twice what he’s been getting from the BBC. Channel 4’s really short of cash. Can you see something wrong here?

  • Sky And The Champions’ League

    Media Guardian are reporting that Sky has won the majority of the Champions’ League games for the three years beginning in 2009. It’s thought that they offered more than £240m representing nearly a 50% increase over what they had previously paid. For that sum, they get all the games bar one – a single Wednesday…

  • China

    So China’s been busily blocking the BBC, YouTube, Yahoo, The Guardian and other sites following the unrest in Tibet. This all bodes well for the Olympics doesn’t it?

  • Hugh Laurie “Snubbed”

    Note: I wrote this a couple of days ago, but managed to forget to hit the publish button. If you look around on Google News today, you’ll see a few stories about Hugh Laurie: Laurie ‘snubbed’ after US success BBC News, UK – 1 hour ago Actor Hugh Laurie has said Britain has turned its…

  • Wired – Good News/Bad News

    Condé Nast is looking to launch a UK edition of Wired magazine according to Media Week (free registration required). Wired, of course, did once before launch a UK edition that sadly closed a couple of years later. But that pre-dates Condé Nast’s ownership and now they’re again readying a UK version. Great! But then I…

  • ITV1 In Half-Decent Drama Shock

    That title’s probably a little unfair, as there are occasionally – very occasionally – some decent dramas on ITV1, but they can be a little scarce and take some hunting down. It’s also possible that Rock Rivals is the best thing since sliced-bread, but given that it comes from the production company who I like…

  • Who Should Be Taken Off Air

    The comments are a fun read…

  • Making Your Stuff iPhone Compatable

    In the past I’ve had a bit of a go at websites rushing to produce iPhone friendly versions of themselves. This might be in some part because I’m not an Apple evangelist like so many tech people (I have an iPod, but that’s it, and I think iTunes is a truly awful piece of bloatware).…