A nice reminder of how TV likes to slightly distort the truth. As you’re watching the final of The Apprentice tonight, ask yourself where the boardroom where people are fired is actually located. The establishing shots are all of Canary Wharf, so you’re obviously supposed to think that’s where it is. But when the person… Continue reading TV is Not Real
Category: media
BBC Programme Catalogue
From the Guardian Ashley Highfield, the BBC director of new media and technology, also announced proposals to put the corporation’s entire programme catalogue online for the first time from tomorrow in written archive form, as an “experimental prototype” This is the cool Ruby on Rails project that Matt Biddulph was working on last year. More… Continue reading BBC Programme Catalogue
Reasons Not To Use Flash
It’s been a while since I posted one of my “basic guide to the internet” articles (sorry, I’ve been a bit busy – new job and all that), but whilst you’re waiting for the next one here’s a good article by Nik about why you shouldn’t implement a web site purely in Flash. I think… Continue reading Reasons Not To Use Flash
Doctor Who Approaches (2)
The Doctor Who publicity machine is really firing up now. There’s a preview in the new Radio Times and a surprisingly long piece in today’s Guardian. The corporation is planning a marketing blitz as it seeks to create a buzz around next month’s launch of the second series of the family drama since it was… Continue reading Doctor Who Approaches (2)
Doctor Who Approaches
It looks like the new series of Doctor Who is getting closer, with a number of repeats looming on both BBC Three and UKTV Gold. BBC Three is showing all of The Green Death two episodes a night from Monday 3rd April. Once that has finished, they’re showing last year’s series starting on Thursday 6th… Continue reading Doctor Who Approaches
Express on the Budget
This pretty much sums up the difference in opinions between sane people and the people who read papers like the Express and the Mail. Express readers would rather have more money in their pocket than having it wasted on things like education and healthcare. Oh, and by the way. Where can you buy nuclear weapons… Continue reading Express on the Budget
MySun
Rupert Murdoch bought MySpace last year as part of his drive to make more effective use of the internet. According to the Guardian, the first results of this purchase will be the use of MySpace technology on the Sun‘s web site to create a “MySun” network. The plan, in its early stages, would allow readers… Continue reading MySun
Watching Films
As part of our cable TV package we subscribe to the Sky Movie channels. For about £15 a month we get eight Sky film channels (it was nine but one was recently removed for some reason) and a handful of Disney channels. But we pretty much subscribed to them by default (“oh, we like films… Continue reading Watching Films
Paying For Content
I wanted to point out an interesting article about how Google are having trouble recruiting staff for their new London office – but the article is in the Independent and because it’s a few days old you now have to pay to read it. So here’s the text that I got yesterday before the paywall… Continue reading Paying For Content
Universally Acknowledging Truths
Argh. They’ve done it again. A truth which has the downside of keeping many true artists poor in garrets and many false ones rich in mansions was universally acknowledged yesterday. (Pride, prejudice and happiness: readers choose favourite endings – Guardian) Is it too much to ask that just once a journalist can write an article… Continue reading Universally Acknowledging Truths