Month: October 2014
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Election Fundraising
Last week Jon Stewart did a very good piece on the emails that the Democratic campaign has been sending out ahead of the upcoming mid-term elections. (Theoretically you can see the video here. Except that in the UK, you can’t. It suggests you go to Comedy Central’s UK site, but that only has some extended…
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Betas
One of the exciting things you can do in our digital world is become a beta tester. Lots of companies and organisations let you test out their new upgrades ahead of rolling them out to the population. It’s quite good fun if you like that sort of thing. They let you see features ahead of…
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Unbundling HBO
I find it really interesting what was announced today by HBO. Essentially from some indeterminate point next, HBO will sell a service direct via the web. Now in a world where we have Netflix and iTunes, this might not seem like a big move, but the pay TV market – and the American one in…
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Twin Peaks – Again
Yesterday I was very excited to learn that Twin Peaks is coming back. I even jumped through the rigmarole of getting a YouTube embed code from a mobile device (seriously – it should be easier). Dear Twitter Friends… it is happening again. http://t.co/r0l9rhK4eB #damngoodcoffee — David Lynch (@DAVID_LYNCH) October 6, 2014 What you also need…
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Twin Peaks
The news that Twin Peaks is returning in 2016 is quite wonderful! In any case, it has been far too long since David Lynch made a film or TV show.
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TV Ignorance
There’s a lot of ignorance both on television and around it. That’s why I’ve never watched an episode of Gogglebox (and almost certainly never will). But that’s not what I’m talking about. It seems to me that as I live more and more of my TV life through a combination of PVR and On Demand…
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Retargeting – Mostly a Waste of Money
Even though I live and breathe the internet, I only recently learnt what “retargeter” or “retargeting” companies are, and what it actually is that they do. You’ll know it even if you hadn’t heard the term either. You know that thing you were thinking of buying? Well perhaps you looked at on Amazon/John Lewis/Asos/wherever. But…