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In a blaze of publicity (well, they’d bought the back pages of either one or both of the free London papers), Virgin 1 launched last night at 9pm. Virgin 1 (like most Virgin products – no relation to my employers), is partially Virgin Media’s response to the petty falling out between Virgin Media and Sky…

This is fascinating. Radiohead has suddenly announced that their new album comes out… next week! And much more interesting is their revenue model. Since they’ve been out of contract with EMI, it was I suppose, expected that they’d either re-sign with EMI or another label. But they’ve gone down a very different route. As their…

Jeremy Kyle used to work at Virgin Radio hosting the late night “Jezza’ Confessions” show where he took calls and gave advice in between playing music. But most people these days know him from his morning ITV show where his guests confront various issues. Actually that’s a pretty polite way of saying that some very…

Well the short answer is no. But since a few people I know are beginning to get tempted, I thought I’d lay out all my objections to Apple’s new wondrous piece of technology. Cost Most people in the UK who have large monthly spends are used to getting even the very newest phones free of…

This week, Heat Radio has relaunched using an advertising free format. Instead it’s using sponsorship to earn revenue. In this respect it’s similar to stations like Virgin Radio Xtreme which launched with Sony PSP for the first six months. Heat magazine isn’t exactly regular reading for me. I’m not, and indeed, have never been in…

Boris Johnson has now been formally chosen by the Tories as their candidate for the London Mayoral elections. That’s what a few appearances on Have I Got News For Your can do. Now far be it from me to really believe that his key election promises are those that the media has highlighted, but let’s…

Languages always change and develop as we start to use words that never existed before. But there’s one area of language development that I really don’t like, and it’s the use of marketing-speak in everyday language. I have too pet peeves – “content” and “premium.” They can be used separately, and are particularly terrible when…

In my last post I mentioned that I was pleased to be able to watch Channel Four News when I get in without having to record it first. The reason I was pleased to see it this evening was because there was an excellent report from Burma where as we know, there are enormous anti-government…

It’s all about the plus ones it seems just now. Channel 4 is terribly excited about it’s newly launched +1 channel allowing you to see programmes that were on an hour earlier. It has always confused me that they’re called “+1” channels – surely they should be “-1” since it was on an hour earlier?…

Hello lawyers at Schillings! (I’m pretty sure, there’s nothing illegal, libellous, or defamatory on this page, but be sure to let me know if you think otherwise! Send me a comment. You and your client have certainly done us all a favour by drawing attention to the man). I’ve no idea if they’ll read this…

The second item on tonights main news bulletin at 10.30pm was about breast cancer and featured an “exclusive” interview with Nicole Kidman. The words “ITV News Exclusive” stayed in vision for much of the interview. Well – they wouldn’t want the BBC to nick it would they?

With any luck, if this post is published correctly, it means that the just-released beta of Windows Live Writer has successfully worked. It’s a WYSIWYG blog entry editor that works with the majority of blogging software. It took me no time to set up and seems to at least allow me to work on, and…