Month: November 2008
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Radio at the Edge: Redux
It might have cost attendees (or their companies) cold hard cash to attend, but the audio from this year’s Radio at the Edge is now available as a series of downloads as well as a summary podcast. Entertainingly, the one session that isn’t available is the Collings and Herrin podcast which they’ve deemed “uncompliant”! Happily,…
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Kangaroo: The State of Play
These are interesting times for Kanagroo – the BBC Worldwide/ITV/C4 joint venture that, simply put, is supposed to do for commercial (and commercially sold) TV, what the iPlayer does for the BBC. Last week Ashley Highfield quite the consortium after four months, having moved across from the BBC mothership to take charge. And a long…
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Children in Need
I never know quite what to make of Children in Need. Simplistically it’s simply a fund-raiser to help children in variety of ways shapes and forms. And nobody can argue with that. But there are the other elements of it, that I always find uncomfortable. It’s notable that Channel 4 always gives its comedy programmes…
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INQ1
I got invited along to the launch of a mobile phone the other day – the INQ1 (pronounced “Ink”). But just calling it a mobile phone is a bit harsh – it’s more of a communications device than anything. It comes from a new company who are looking to target people for who iPhones, Blackberrys,…
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Radio At The Edge
Apologies upfront for the rawness of this text. I’ll tidy it up later. To Radio at the Edge (where there’s some free WiFi), to hear about the latest goings on in the audio world. After introductions from James Cridland, and an opening from Nick Wallis, a familiar face – to me at least – Clive…
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Depressing Bookshops
I love bookshops. No really. I absolutely love them. Working in central London is great because there are a multitude of them, they open late, there are chains and specialists, and if I find myself with some time on my hands, then they’re the obvious place to go. I like to visit at least every…
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Radio Times 7 November 2008
Apologies that I’ve uploaded this so late, you won’t be able to catch any of the programmes. “Friday Night With Jonathan Ross” was especially good… Best read large. (Sorry too that the pen was a bit thick this time, and the copier I used to scan this in needs a bit of a clean too…)
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Picking Up A Souvenir
I like a souvenir as much as anyone. So with Obama getting in, picking a copy of that day’s New York Times seemed like an idea. Copies are printed in the UK, but it’s a “lite” version and time differences mean that it has to go to press very early. This evening on NBC’s Nightly…
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Change of Address
This is a kind of “sister” post to something James Cridland wrote earlier this week on his blog. He was talking about the email that my employer is currently sending out to people who are still using our old virginradio.co.uk domain. But of course he’s only seeing half the story. At work, our IT department…
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Help Me, Wolf Blitzer, You’re My Only Hope
CNN’s Election Night “hologram” was truly the most pointless graphical mechanism I’ve ever seen on any type of broadcast. I say get Max Headroom as a pundit for 2012.
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Photos
The Boston Globe’s “The Big Picture” is a fantastic that I visit everytime it’s updated. They’ve got some stunning photos of Obama taken over the last few weeks. The shots in the rain are awesome. F11 to maximise and then J and K to navigate. (A few photographers really need to clean their lenses/sensors though!)
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US Election Night 2008
You’ll get better, more accurate, and more timely information in a thousand other places online tonight, but I’m still blogging the election. 10:21 GMT So after I watched Obama speak, I did finally go to bed. But here’s the map as it now stands with two states still to be added. 4:57 GMT Still awaiting…