Category: Internet
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Podcasting Forecasts
As a follow-up to RAJAR’s recent research into podcasting, the US based eMarketer.com has just released some forecasts for podcast revenues for the next five years. The full report retails for $695, so you’ll excuse me if I limit my notes to the findings they publish on their blog. They suggest that total audience for…
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A Plea To Web Designers
If you’re going to produce a print CSS file for your blog entries (nicely formatting a print version, and removing unnecessary page furniture), please include the comments! The two guiltiest candidates that I’ve come across – i.e. blogs that I read but don’t conform – are the BBC’s, and those of Guardian Unlimited. If you…
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Tin-Pan Dead End Alley
“Pandora’s ex-customers in the UK will be wondering why the service they want can’t be catered for by the recording industry. And they are not alone – for what are the millions of illicit peer-to-peer file-sharers, but a huge potential market? Internet users are showing the industry how they want their music in the digital…
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Podcasting: The Future
Last night the Radio Academy held an event in London to talk about podcasting. It was interesting to a point, although whether or not we learnt a great deal, I’m not so sure. You can listen to a podcast of the event at the Radio Academy’s website (I’m pretty sure registration isn’t required). Some points…
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DVD Screeners of I Am Legend
Sometimes I wonder about the sanity of the film industry. The torrent sites currently have for download a high quality copy of a “DVD Screener” of the big new Will Smith film, I Am Legend. The film has only just opened in the UK, and has only been out about three weeks in the US…
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Rewriting Yourself for the iPhone
Another website “optimises” itself for the iPhone. I do hope that every other gadget on the market gets a version of Picasa Webpages that makes best use of its own unique attributes. As I said previously, I’m getting really fed up of everybody rushing to write iPhone specific versions of their sites. I’ve no problem…
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Comment Spam
I’ve just been looking at this website’s “activity log” and was amazed to see how often comment spam comes in. Thank goodness that I’ve got some basic filtering in place. Yesterday there were 170 attempts to comment here (with one genuine comment), all of which failed because they didn’t pass my cunning challenge response box.…
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Apple Video Pricing Revisited
There’s an interesting piece about Apple’s pricing for video in Variety at the moment. It seems that Apple would quite like to drop prices from $1.99 to 99c an episode, and not all the studios are happy. ABC/Disney might bite the bullet, but as an unnamed commenter for the piece says ‘it doesn’t make sense…
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Movable Type 4
Well, I’ve bitten the bullet and upgraded to MT 4, and so far everything seems OK. I got it working pretty much straight out of the box, and I took Sixapart’s advice and did it as side by side install to allow me to only move across folders that I actually needed. That said, once…
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iTunes/NBC Universal Dispute
NBC Universal has fallen out with Apple over the pricing of their products on iTunes with the result that Apple will not be offering any new material for sale from the company via its store. That means no new seasons of Heroes, Battlestar Galactica or The Office – three series that have sold very well…
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Pirate Internet Radio
A couple of great posts about internet radio revenues in the UK, from James (late of these parts) and Kevin Coy. While I might rail on incessently about record companies desperately trying to extend copyright periods for no good reason, I passionately believe that performers and artists deserve a fair remuneration for the broadcast of…
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Uncool Flickr
We all know that Flickr is really cool don’t we? I mean, I’ve certainly always thought so. Until now. That’s why I was appalled to read this post from Rebekka who’s easily one of the more famous Flickr photographers. She put up a composite of several photos she’d taken of her home country Iceland and…