Category: Internet

Thinktank Demos have today published a report detailing how enthusiasts and amateurs are changing the way we do things. So far I’ve only had a quick flick through the report, but it’s effectively an examination of those people who invest so much time in their hobbies and interests that they’re as good as the professionals.…

Firefox 1.0 was fully released today, and I’ve got to say that I’m loving it. Aside from a couple of sites that present me with problems (including the back engine to this very site – buttons in my version of Movabletype are an issue), the negatives are far outweighed by the positives. There’s all those…

Well there’s now a rough and ready print version of this page. Should work in any recent browser, and although it’s not perfect, it’s much better than what you’d have got when you tried to print before. Before I knocked this together, the home page came to 36 pages, mostly in a thin column. Now…

You may or may not know that Peter Jackson is currently remaking King Kong out in New Zealand, as his follow up to the Lord of the Rings. The people who did the Onering website, are behind KongisKing which features some fantastic video diary updates from Jackson and his cohorts. And unlike those people at…

So just to make sure that everyone knows that I’m really up with the new technology, I thought that I’d better acknowledge Podcasting. A few weeks back I was bemoaning the fact that it was really hard to find radio in a downloadable rather than streaming format. Well it’s out there and it’s called Podcasting.…

The Times today carries a piece (free at the moment, but likely to become subscription only) describing how the music industry, through its trade bodies, is lobbying Microsoft to include methods to prevent people from copying music in the new version of Windows – codenamed Longhorn. “One of the possible improvements that has been mooted…

I’m very pleased with myself. I’ve managed to set up an automatic process to record The World Today from the BBC World Service between 5.30am and 6.00am BST, move the file from one computer to another, convert it from mp2 to mp3, and then dump the said mp3 file onto my Palm, which is also…

Last night there was a music industry debate about PR and the whole music downloading thing. For some reason, I decided to go along (well Virgin has just launched a download chart, cunningly timed to extract maximum PR). It was less about the right or wrongs of downloading, but more about how the music industry…

Whilst compiling a reasonably detailed forthcoming entry on international TV audiences I came across this amazing map (PDF) entitled A World Divided by a Common Internet. It shows the haves and have nots of the world – visually demonstrating the “digital divide”.

My ISP went down for most of yesterday, and I must admit that it gave me something of a fright. I did consider that maybe all the stuff I’ve put on this website might have been lost. For all I knew, the company had gone bust or something! Fortunately that’s not the case and it…

I’ve just installed MT Blacklist after a number of tedious spam blog entries over the last few weeks culminating in around a dozen entries all made within 24 hours of one another the other day. I know that this is low compared to some people, but it’s still a pain. I’m pleased to say that…

500 lucky souls at the BBC are getting to trial the BBC’s TV equivalent of their radio player according to this report in The Independent (read it quickly since it may go Premium, or go here instead). I suspect that the service will only be available to those broadband suppliers listed within the BBC’s Broadband…