Month: August 2003
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US Sports Talk TV
NASN – the North American Sports Network – has recently been added to the Telewest Digital universe, and I believe we’re getting it free on a temporary basis before they attempt to charge me a tenner a month. In the meantime, I’m dosing up on baseball and the like. I could go off on a…
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Join Me
Join Me is one of those internet things (well not strictly internet) that passed me by. What a terrible thing. I like to think that I’m ahead of the game with this stuff, but nope – I had no idea about any of it, until I read something about the book somewhere. I tried not…
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Premiership Football
The BBC has won back the Premiership highlights from the season after this for three years. Well they can’t do a worse job than ITV have done. In fact ITV are going to be a bit short of football come the 2004/5 season since their Champions League is being reduced with the advent of Sky’s…
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Mobs and Communities
Yesterday was London’s first Flash Mob. I suspect that this will be a short lived concept. The idea is that you’re given some instructions about meeting somewhere around town. At the given venue, you meet a contact who hands you further instructions in the form of a small piece of paper. With very precise timings,…
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Embers
I got this book for two reasons. 1) it was advertised quite heavily in the national press, and anyone who says that it doesn’t work is deceiving only themselves, and 2) I read an interesting piece about it in The Guardian Review a few weeks back, which recommended it. The book was first published in…