Month: January 2012

  • Following the US Election in the UK

    As the US gets into the swing of things in 2012, the contest between Republicans to become the candidate who will fight it out with Barack Obama gets more intense with each week. The best place to follow the ups and downs of the electoral combat would be on The Daily Show, and its sister…

  • Apple and its Suppliers

    Apple has just announced some staggering profits. $13bn in the last three months alone. Once again, it’s close to being the most valuable company on the planet. Earlier this week, the New York Times published this devastating report on Apple’s suppliers, including Foxconn, and the pressures it puts to bear on its employees. Then there’s…

  • Borgen

    With two series of The Killing out the way, it’s time to move on to the next big Danish TV drama. And that would be Borgen. I say “move on to” it, but as of yesterday we’re eight episodes into the first ten part series. According to Wikipedia, Borgen is the nickname of the Christianborg…

  • New York 1986

    I’ve been scanning in some old prints of my first visit to New York. A selection are viewable on Flickr. Not perhaps the greatest set of photos ever, and in retrospect it’d have been better if a 16 year old me had taken some photos that actually included a few New Yorkers in the photos.…

  • Channel Four Shuffle

    Media Guardian has details of a proposed new Channel Four service that’s supposedly going to appear on-air later this year. From what I can tell it’s a traditional linear channel – just one that gives multiple additional opportunities for viewers to catch Channel Four programmes at other times across the week. The odd thing is…

  • From Gutenberg to Zuckerbeg

    In 2012, I’m going to try to write a little more about books. I say this every year, but I am going to try! First up is John Naughton’s From Gutenberg to Zuckerbeg: What You Really Need to Know About the Internet. This is a follow-up, of sorts, to A Brief History of the Future,…

  • Redefining Radio

    Because I was somewhat involved, I can’t really present an unbiased view of yesterday’s Redefining Radio conference presented by Absolute Radio at the Houses of Parliament (But I did think it was very good). So instead, let me link to all the videos from the morning, as well as some external reports generated from the…

  • John Arlott – Cricket’s Radical Voice

    You have just under two days to listen to the most recent Archive Hour on Radio 4 dealing with John Arlott’s political nature. As well as being famous for having one of those wonderful Test Match Special voices that I’d listen to when I was growing up, he was also a regular on programmes like…

  • Mirror Box

    These photos were made by placing a camera on self-timer in a “mirror box” built with mirrored tiles. All based on a very smart idea I saw on Photojojo and detailed at Digital Composting. The box that I built was built precisely to those specifications. I used 12″ square tiles I bought from Mirrorworld who…

  • Boxsets

    This week Boardwalk Empire season one came out on DVD and Blu-ray in the UK this week. So anyone who doesn’t get Sky Atlantic is able to see what the fuss is about. But I was a little surprised to say the least. Wasn’t it already out? Here’s the thing, Sky Atlantic launched with the…

  • Two Screen TV

    At the end of Sherlock on Sunday I picked up my phone and pulled up Twitter to see what everyone had been saying about it. Since I’d watched it live, there was a lot of #sherlock activity. Amongst people I follow it was very popular. That’s not surprising – it’s excellent! But then I started…

  • The Podcasting Challenge – Some More Thoughts

    My piece on podcasting from yesterday (but the product of a long period of gestation) seems to have generated some interest, so I thought it was worth exploring a few of the issues people have mentioned to me in various environments following on from the post. Terminology We do need to be consistent across the…