Category: media

Today’s Guardian has an article about the relaunched BBC Radio Player. It also mentions their experiment last year when they made editions of In Our Time available as MP3s.

Simon points out this press release from the BBC. It seems they are going to make a lot more of their radio output available through an improved version of their Radio Player application. I’ll be taking a look as soon as I can to see if and how this effects my BBC streams page. Expect… Continue reading New BBC Streams

I’ve just realised that the feed from Bloggerheads had fallen of my Bloglines reading list so I’ve just put it back and have enjoyed catching up on a lot of what Tim has been writing recently. A couple of good examples: The latest news from Jesusistan (includes American conservatives attacking a cartoon sponge) A roundup… Continue reading Bloggerheads

Not that I’m watching Celebrity Big Brother you understand, but something interesting has come to my notice. The “official” biography of Jackie Stallone gives her age as 71 which means she was born in 1933 or 1934. IMDB shows that her son Sylvester Stallone was born in July 1946. Now it is, of course, possible… Continue reading Stallone Ages

I’ve been enjoying the BBC programme Dragon’s Den. In the show a group of entrepreneurs describe business ideas to a group of “dragons” (potential investors) in the hope that the dragons will give them some money. Most of the investment requests are in the order of £100,000. The dragons question them on the details of… Continue reading In The Dragon’s Den

About half an hour ago I spotted Ben Hammersley wandering around on the fifth floor of the Guardian Unlimited building. I know he writes for the Guardian, but we don’t often get writers slumming it over this side of the road :)

blech points out obvious differences in the priorities of two of our daily newspapers. Because if you’re a Daily Mail reader then you’re not interested in global catastrophes. you’re only interested in how political correctness is destroying the traditional British christmas.

My copy of the extended edition of The Return of the King was waiting at home when I got in last night. It was a day early thanks to the vagaries of the British postal system. Now I just need to find about ten and a half hours to sit and watch all three films… Continue reading The Arrival of the King

This makes me really angry. I was really happy that they were planning to make films of His Dark Materials but now it seems that New Line Cinema have decided that the subject of the trilogy (an attempt to overthrow god) would impact its saleability in the US. So they’ve decided to replace god with… Continue reading God cut from Dark Materials film

Last night the Evening Standard was nicely angry about Ken Livingstone’s plans to raise the congestion charge. The Standard has been firmly against the charge ever since it was introduced. but as far as I can see the Standard is massively out of step with the majority of Londoners who seem pretty much in favour… Continue reading Evening Standard