Category: Internet
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Writely Post This is
Writely Post This is a bit of test to copy to check that I can send this from Writely. Minutes later… Well that seems to work OK. Lots of ways of getting stuff onto this site now.
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Movable Type
Another quick entry to test my so-called tag cloud…
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Movable Type 3.32
Well after a couple of false starts I think I’ve now got Movable Type version 3.3 (3.32 indeed) working. I had some false starts earlier which gave a “PreSave failed” error. Googling it really didn’t help, and I was flumoxed. But I think that I failed to update a folder since a second reinstall seems…
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IPTV and the IAB
This week’s New Media Age makes quite interesting reading for various reasons – some of which I’ll go through separately, not least the interview with David Elstein. But there’s an interesting piece by Guy Phillipson of the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB), an organisation who’s role is to “work with our members to ensure marketers can…
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Email Overload
It’s difficult to explain just how satisfying it is to get 2,800 emails in my inbox down to a slightly more manageable 35.
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BBC Vodcasts on the PSP
I noted the other day that the BBC had launched “vodcasts” of some of its news programming including a weekly Newsnight summary. I also mentioned that it was disappointing that the BBC hadn’t made the format available as anything other than an iPod friendly mp4. Well of course mp4 files play on plenty of hardware.…
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YouTube Bigger Than MySpace – But Both Full Of Copyright Material?
Today’s Media Guardian reports how Alexa is now showing YouTube as having overtaken MySpace (note to self: when you create your Web 2.0, or even 3.0, company, ensure that it’s two words with no space and two capitals – it’s the law). I’m sure it’s fantastic news for YouTube, a bit like the way that…
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Blogging in Britain
Last week MSN released a report entitled Blogging in Britain (PDF via The Daily Telegraph) which is all very interesting and supplies lots of hard and fast numbers which I’m using for a work project. But whoever worked on the presentation of the stats in the report really needs to go back to school and…
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Hollywood Reporter on YouTube
A fascinating piece on copyright issues in The Hollywood Reporter (via TV Squad) following on from Newsnight the other day. There are a couple of questions I’ve got after reading this piece: First, YouTube’s 10-minute clip limit and tiny video window cater to clip culture, not pirates. Well yes, but it may be a tiny…
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Newsnight on YouTube
A very interesting comment piece by Daniel Pearl, deputy editor of Newsnight on what I consider to be the fatal flaw with the business model of sites like YouTube.
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Baddiel and Skinner Podcast
A picture in today’s Times shows a tangle of cables as David Baddiel and Frank Skinner recorded their first World Cup podcast (a separate website incidentally). I wish that amidst all the kit, someone had spent a little time normalising the audio. The level of the first recording is really low. With the volume at…
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Live Via Buffering on the Internet
Office workers of the UK are rejoicing. In a pair of announcments, the BBC has revealed that it’ll be simulcasting all its live World Cup games on the internet. To UK viewers only of course. They’ll also be providing the full interactive option for Wimbledon too. Fantastic. Nobody will get any work done in the…