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Edison Research Top 25 UK Podcasts – Q4 2025
Edison Research has just published their Top 25 Podcasts in the UK for Q4 2025. As ever, this chart is based on recall from 2,000 online interviews with weekly podcast listeners in the UK. As ever, I’m going to take the long view on this and show how the chart has changed over time. This…
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Brighton
Well, it may have taken me until the following Friday to note it, but I spent the whole of last weekend in Brighton enjoying the sun, making a video, and checking out venues for our company weekend away. Anyway, the video’s here for a limited-ish time (terrible quality – will try and get a better…
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Collateral
Saw this new Michael Mann film earlier this evening, featuring Tom Cruise as a professional hitman who kidnaps Jamie Foxx’s taxi driver forcing him to help out on his night of hits. The whole thing looks like it was shot on hi-definition video, and it lends an almost noir-ish feel to the film. There are…
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Tour of Britain
I rushed back from Brighton to catch the end of the Tour of Britain cycle race. Last weekend saw the southeast having fantastic weather, and people turned out in big numbers. It’s been five years since the last tour of Britain – the Prutour as it was then. So it was good to see professional…
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News Values
While the most of the world has been coming to grips with the horific consequences of the Russian tragedy, America was wrestling with a hurricane. Channel 4 News’ Jon Snow puts the US coverage like this in today’s Snowmail: I see we have allocated 30 seconds for the hurricane in Florida… weekending in America it…
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A Reason to Vote For Bush…
Billionairesforbush.com!
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The Flanders Panel
Not too long ago I finally got around to reading The Seville Communion, and I must admit that it made me want to read more of Arturo Perez-Reverte’s work. The Flanders Panel is set in current day Madrid with our protagonist Julia, an art restorer, working on a painting that depicts a chess game from…
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Edward Hopper
The exhibition has only been open for months, yet it’s only tonight that I finally made it to the Hopper exhibition at Tate Modern, and it closes on Sunday Outside Blackfriars station I overtook someone who looked suspiciously like TV’s Kate Humble (Gia’s bête noir) as I headed towards the Millennium Bridge. Of course I…
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Curb
When did E4 win the right for the third series of Curb Your Enthusiasm? Does this mean that it won’t get a run on BBC4 now? (Obviously I’ve already seen the third and fourth series, but that’s not really the point). And has E4 made much of this rather good acquisition? Haven’t seen any ads…
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Cryptographic Hash Functions
A pair of fascinating articles (article 1, article 2) about hash functions and recent cryptographic breakthroughs and the possibility of many cryptographic strategies being made redundant. Great reading.
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Skype
Woo. With the advent of an OS X version of Skype I was finally able to communicate with my brother using this VOIP application. I’ve got to say that it worked pretty well. It probably helps that we both have broadband, but the quality is massively better than that offered by the regular telephone. Just…
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BBC Three
I really do have to wonder about the sanity of some of our channel controllers – in particular, step forward Mr Stuart Murphy, controller of BBC Three. Since it was launched, this particular channel has gone for a multi-channel styling like no other channel. That means permament on-screen “DOG” (i.e. a BBC Three logo), reminders…
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Rooney Set For Man Utd
So it seems that Wayne Rooney’s off to Man Utd – but that story highlights a real problem that I have with the way the Premiership is organised. Yesterday Man Utd drew with Everton 0-0, but Fergie refused “all post match interviews.” Fergie already has a problem with the BBC, and is not giving interviews…
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