Month: January 2018
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The Tabloid Guardian
It has now been over a week since The Guardian, and sister paper The Observer, both rebranded. Perhaps more saliently, they also reshaped themselves, moving from the unique “Berliner” format to a tabloid. Now in some respects I feel unusual these days in still buying a physical printed paper. “It’s all online.” “You can get…
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Critical Security Alert
Last week I got a worrying email in my Gmail account. Either this was a genuine Google email, or it was a phishing attempt. What’s especially worrying is that it suggests someone actually has my password! I wasn’t born yesterday, so the first thing I did was hover my mouse over the “Check Activity” button.…
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Right Hooked – A Near Miss
A Ford Fiesta turns right oblivious of me being in a cycle lane along the right hand side of the road. This is known as a left-, or in this instance, right-hook. A near miss. The road is Maple Street which, unusually, has a separated cycle lane along the right-hand side of the road rather…
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RAJAR MIDAS – Winter 2017 Results
There seems to have been a bit more noise made about this week’s release of RAJAR’s MIDAS data. Recent releases have perhaps appeared a little too closely to the main quarterly RAJAR release. MIDAS stands for “Measurement of Internet Delivered Audio Services” although it doe sa little more than this, particularly when comparing what platforms…
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Digitising My Life in 2018
Life is digital. We’ve known that for a long time. Digital offers lots of convenience, but it brings with it complications. In particular, safe storage. In 2018 I need to try to fix three or four problems/issues I have coming up. 1. Cloud Storage As longtime readers might know, I have a couple of Synology…
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2018 Media Predictions
It’s that time of year when, because not a lot else is going on, and pages need to be filled, everyone is busily predicting what might happen in 2018. So here are my bold and not so bold predictions in the coming year across the media industry. A streamer will win some Premier League rights.…