Month: July 2015

  • How Not To Reinvigorate T20

    The ECB has a problem. As the third Ashes Test gets underway, largely unwatched by the British public, participation in cricket continues to fall. According to Sport England’s Active People survey, just 0.6% of people ever play cricket. And this is a number that’s been in decline since the survey began measuring sports uptake. In…

  • BT’s Advertising

    As the new football season rapidly approaches (even though it’s still only July), so the marketing spend of the various pay-TV operators ramps up. Sky is showing some fairly well-received adverts highlighting their Premier League heritage and super-imposing Thierry Henry into the video. On the other hand, BT is busy trying to let the British…

  • Chapeau Chris Froome!

     

  • The Ridgeway

    Ridgeway from Adam Bowie on Vimeo. DJI Phantom 3 Advanced footage taken near the Ridgeway near Enfield, just north of London. You can just about see some of the buildings of Canary Wharf in the distance (about 15 miles away), and the M25 is also visible in one shot. Music: "Train" by Dexter Britain (http://www.dexterbritain.co.uk)…

  • The Tour de France in the Pyrenees – 2015

    [A ridiculously large number of photos means this page will be slow to load. Best viewed on a nice big monitor rather than your phone.] Although I’ve been to see the Tour de France a number of times, I’d never really been to see the race in the mountains before. Well, that’s not entirely true.…

  • “Join the conversation on Twitter…”

    We’ve all heard this on air. We’re extolled to get in touch with some programme using Twitter, Facebook, text or whatever. The presenter regularly lets the audience know what their social media handle is. Perhaps the programme has a hashtag. “Let us know what you think!” And then? Well they don’t really use those contributions…

  • Following the Tour de France

    And by that, I mean “following it from afar” not being at the race itself. The Tour de France takes place over three weeks, including four weekends. That equates to 21 stages and two rest days. If you’re not on a roadside somewhere watching the race, then you’re going to be following the race remotely.…

  • Six Nations’ Deal

    Yesterday we learned that the BBC will lose it’s exclusivity of broadcasting the Six Nations, and will share coverage with ITV from 2016. The BBC has pulled out two years early from a previous agreement that ran until 2017, in a similar manner to the deal with Sky over F1. To be honest, this seems…

  • Dunwich Dynamo

    The Dunwich Dynamo is the stuff of legend. Well sort of. It began in 1993 when some cycling messengers organised a fun-ride to the Suffolk coast. It’s now turned into a big turn-up-and-ride event taking place in July over the closest Saturday/Sunday night to a full moon. Everyone meets in London Fields and then heads…

  • Electric Storm

    I love a good electric storm, and we had one in London last night (indeed most of the country). I pounced into action with photo, audio and video. That said, I’m not altogether happy with my results. The above represents the best photo I took. There are a couple of video frame grabs below, but…

  • Apple, Spotify and a Binary Way of Selling Music

    Apple Music is now up and running. If you have an iPhone, you’ll be pestered to update your device, and a new Music app will appear that on first open is desperate to give you a 90 day free trial of Apple’s Spotify-like experience. So I dusted off an iPod Touch (mainly bought to use…

  • Chilled Cyclists

    Today was apparently the hottest day since 2006 or something in London. I can certainly attest that it was warm. Nobody wants to be on the tube in this heat, so there were even more cyclists that usual on my ride in this morning. But I do have a little complaint. Undoubtedly there were lots…