BBC relic Originally uploaded by dan taylor. Whilst cleaning out my rucksack this morning I came across this quote, neatly clipped from the Business and Media section of the Observer (01 April 2007 pg. 9): Those who suspected that former… Continue Reading
For months I’ve been proactively trying to cut down on the number of RSS feeds I’m subscribed to because, these days, I rarely get a chance to check more than a dozen of them each day anyway. There’s something about… Continue Reading
Earlier this week, the news was that ebay was planning to start using keyword ads. Now Google has tested a system that can figure out what TV program you’re watching on screen and present you with real-time viewer forums and… Continue Reading
george bush falls victim to the epg Originally uploaded by robinh1973. The electronic program guide (epg) decides that a George Bush speech broadcast on Voice of America TV (Hotbird Satellite 370) is called “dummyEventName”. And who said there was no… Continue Reading
Vodafone and Sky have teamed up to bring you Sky television on your mobile. Will people really sit and watch television on such a tiny screen? Well, Apple has done really well with it’s newest video enabled iPod so it… Continue Reading
I’ve been looking for this since installing Mac OSX Tiger: a dashboard widget for the BBC radio player. (created by Andy Allcorn)
Sponsored by backstage.bbc.co.uk, Open Tech 2005 is an informal, low cost, one-day conference about technologies that anyone can have a go at, from "Open Source"-style ways of working to repurposing everyday electronics hardware. Taking place on 23rd July, 2005, in… Continue Reading
A few things I found in the newspaper at the weekend: Spinvox, which the Observer says is "the World’s first voicemail-to-text service", is offering free trials of their service: http://www.spinvox.com Roger Mosey, head of BBC Television News, reviewed Peter Bazalgette’s… Continue Reading
The March 2005 issue of Wired proclaimed the "end of radio (as we know it)". In America, those with a digital satellite radio tuner are treated to around 130 channels with just under half of those broadcasting commercial free, for… Continue Reading