Category: Internet

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My laptop has had a hidden “service” partition on it since I’ve had it, so in a fit of tidying up files, instead of handing the space over to Windows, I decided to chuck Ubuntu on it. It’s been ages since I had a play around with Linux, so I thought it was worth a…

There’s plenty of coverage elsewhere about the whys and wherefores of EMI going DRM-free, with Apple iTunes the first partner. But I will make a couple of comments. It is brave of EMI, but necessary. By holding out longer, you’re just going to piss your customers off, and when you’re having as turbulent a time…

The news that YouTube is being sued by Viacom for $1bn is not really that surprising. I’ve been frankly amazed at how YouTube has managed to operate when so much of its content is clearly copyright. I know that people like Jeff Jarvis will think that Viacom is shooting itself in the foot by bringing…

I’ve got to say that I’m somewhat disappointed by the current state of play of some of the BBC’s websites. In particular, their main BBC1 and BBC2 homepages, and the BBC Radio homepage. Let’s start with a specific example. BBC2 has a new series called Are We There Yet presented by ex-Panorama reporter John Ware.…

We all know that MySpace is rubbish, but I hadn’t realised, until I went to play with it, just quite how rubbish it is. Considering its popularity, you might think that they’d make the damned thing a teeny bit user friendly. You’re stuck with default sections and to do anything neat at all, you have…

A bit more on DRM. Sorry. It’s interesting that at about the same time as Steve Jobs becomes a sudden convert to going DRM-free, the BBC Trust reports back its conclusions to the BBC’s on-demand proposals and in particular the iPlayer. One of the key things they want the BBC to ensure is that DRMd…

Well? The answer according to the new-look mirror.co.uk is three! One on the left, one on the right, and a big one in the middle! A word of advice – don’t try playing them all at once. The planets get into alignment or something and bad things happen… Roy Greenslade at Mediaguardian shares his thoughts…

YouTube, it’s reported, is working on an advertising revenue sharing mechanism that rewards creativity and generates cold hard cash for people who include advertising in their videos. The offer applies only to people who own the full copyright of the videos that they are uploading to the YouTube website. Right. But surely they’re not suggesting…

As this week’s BBC >Click show gets excited by the growth of TV torrenting, legal alternatives are finally presenting themselves. The BBC is all ready to roll (I was a beta-tester back in 2005, although somehow failed to blog about it), but is having to go through a public value test. Ofcom last week published…

It’s not that there aren’t some fine sites that utilise some of the following; but the words and phrases themselves are so over-used that tedium sets in when I read them. To put this in context I read a trade story about the Costa Book Awards (formerly the Whitbread Book Awards). It explained that as…