Category: media

The Times are slowly staggering into the 21st century. They have introduced an Election Blog (which they’ve quaintly decided to call a “log” not a “blog”) but they have forgotten to include any RSS feeds of the posts. What use is a blog without an RSS feed? If I can’t read it at Bloglines then… Continue reading Times Election Blog

Slightly misleading headline in today’s Sun (there’s a surprise!) as they claim that “Dr Who Quits After One Episode” (no idea how permanent that link will be). It’s true that Christopher Eccleston has said he doesn’t want to make another series of Doctor Who and it’s also true that only one episode of the current… Continue reading Dr Who Quits After One Series

If you don’t want to read spoilers about the first episode of the new Doctor Who series then you probably shouldn’t read this article. You have been warned. One of my earliest memories of Doctor Who is the image of Autons coming to life in shop windows and shooting people with the guns in their… Continue reading Doctor Who – A Review

Looks like the new series of Dr Who will be starting on March 26th. Expect increasing amounts of media coverage over the next couple of weeks. An early entry is this piece from yesterday’s Observer. I’m getting very excited. Update: Due to some unscrupulous people on the internet I now have a copy of the… Continue reading Diddly-Dum Diddly-Dum

I wrote last month about the irony of the Sunday Times praising RSS but not having RSS feeds available on their site. This got me wondering which UK papers currently offer RSS feeds of their stories. I’m planning to put a page up at some point that lists all the the feeds available from each… Continue reading Newspaper RSS

This Thursday (17th Feb) Living TV are starting to show Life As We Know It. Obviously I wouldn’t normally point out when an obscure cable TV channel picks up a new US teen drama, but this one gets special treatment as it’s apparently based on Melvin Burgess’s excellent novel Doing It. I’m surprised that none… Continue reading Life As We Know It

I finally got most of the work done on the new version of get_streams my program that extracts the addresses of the Real Audio streams from the BBC Radio web site and then builds this page of links. The BBC changed their site a couple of weeks ago so I needed to update the program… Continue reading Updated Radio Streams

Simon Waldman points out this very positive article about RSS in yesterday’s Sunday Times. It’s ironic, of course, because none of time Times online news sites have any trace of an RSS feed. They’ll work it out eventually. Update: I sent an email pointing out the irony to webmaster@timesonline.co.uk, but it bounced back as an… Continue reading Irony At Work

Watching Them : Watching Us is on top form today, pointing out the ironies in today’s Daily Mail front page. We’ll never forget this.