Month: June 2007
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Snow Patrol at the O2
I visted the O2 last night (previously the Dome) for a “secret” Snow Patrol gig that was an invitation only affair for many of the people who worked on the site, or had something to do with it. My involvement is minimal to non-existent – I supplied the odd piece of data to a friend…
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Five Fined
Five has been fined £300,000 by Ofcom – the largest ever fine for a public service broadcaster – for faking winners and misleading its audience with Brainteaser on five separate occasions. Good.
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Sky on Freeview – Ofcom Announces a Consultation
Today Ofcom has announced that it will conduct a public consultation into Sky’s proposal to replace it’s Freeview channels with three pay channels on DTT. As regular readers will recall, this proposal came as a counter measure to Setanta who will have Freeview, and also acted as a nice distraction for the launch of Virgin…
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Hyde Park Calling and the Buena Vista Social Club
And so to Hyde Park Calling – a festival that happens at the same time as Glastonbury, and so has an “old rocker” feel to it. Due to a bit of a cock-up on my part, one of the newer singers I wanted to see, Terra Naomi, who’d I heard on the cover CD of…
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Taking Liberties
Taking Liberties is that rarest of things – a low budget British documentary released in the cinema. It covers a subject that’s very close to my heart, the reduction of civil liberties we’ve seen under the premiership of Tony Blair over the last ten years. It tells its tale using a combination of archive clips,…
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Die Hard 4.0
I’m sure earlier in the year, or perhaps late last year, I saw trailers for Live Free or Die Hard. But in the meantime, somebody noticed that Web 2.0 was a bit of a buzzword, and since this film is all about using the power of computers to bring down the state, it was renamed…
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Pointless
No no no no no. Being interviewed in Second Life is utterly pointless. What next? Political interviews in the middle of Deal or No Deal?
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Alan Johnston – 100 Days
Alan Johnston has now been held in captivity for 100 days.
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The Progressive Patriot
The Progressive Patriot is one of those books that’s going to defy categorisation in bookshops and libraries. It’s part autobiography, part history and part social history. Bragg takes us on something of a personal journey to understand his roots. We travel this journey, partly by way of his East End/Essex born family, but dip in…
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Cloud Cuckoo Land
Exactly which part of Cloud Cuckoo Land does Home Office minister Liam Byrne live in? He’s reported today as saying that Blair’s pointless, over-priced, Big Brotheresque ID Card scheme will become a “great British institution” on a par with the railways in the 19th Century. How exactly? The building of the railways brought great positive…