February 2008
On the Finding of Help and the Getting of Answers →
As we recently posted, FeedBurner’s integration into Google is moving along. We’ve got our coding hats on and are hard at work to get the essential product pieces where they need to be. However,…
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Busy time →
As anyone who knows what I do and where I work will have guessed - now is a bit of a busy time for me, I have little spare to write this blog - but hopefully things will start to cool off…
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“Drink! Feck! Arse! Girls!” →
The ever brilliant Father Jack Hackett from Father Ted has had his epic catchphrase “Drink! Feck! Arse! Girls!” named as one of the top 25 put downs on British and American Television by Radio Times readers.
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The new independent →
A while ago I did a quick review of the various UK newspaper websites, looking specifically at their Web2.0 credentials - the Independent and the Guardian came out VERY badly in that review.
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A day in London →
On occasion I find myself in London for work and I never enjoy the experience - don’t get me wrong I love London, it’s a wonderful vibrant, historic city with so much to do all of the time - but in a work context it’s horrible.
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Size does matter
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Our little corner of the BBC empire (Jersey, CI) is currently full of strange journalists from around the UK and Europe.
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Something Jersey →
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Jersey in the news →
As part of my job I often find myself searching for Jersey on Google, Google News or Google Blog Search - I’ll even occasionally look up the island on sites like IMDB, Wikipedia, TV.com and others.
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Something Jersey
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Anti-Social Creature
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Jersey News →
I’ve already written about Jersey being in the news at the moment, mainly for the wrong reasons, so I figured I’d post a photo of a Jersey News Story that isn’t a major scandal (depending on your view) or at least doesn’t involve death.
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How I split my music Fetched from Up Your Ego 9 minutes ago.
How I split my music →
Over the last few years I’ve interviewed a number of bands and musicians, from bands just starting out with their first gig up to bands with top ten albums and major recording contracts.
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Tracks for 10p?
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As seen on four →
They like me, they really like me. I’ve looked at the BBC TWO and BBC FOUR websites in envy in the past as I’ve seen other bloggers quoted and linked to from their index.
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Finding BBC Podcasts
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Time for change
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Four songs to close your eyes to →
I had the chance tonight to do something I haven’t done in a very long time - sit down on the sofa, in the dark, with my iPod on and listen to music.
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Usual Eurovision Rubbish
To read or not to read
Learn an instrument
6 hours in a box
Ripping my DVDs
Money to play with
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Back to basics?
An iPhone in Six Months
Under the fold →
I’ve got a few advert links on my blog - there’s good old fashioned Google adsense, there’s ShoppingAds from Text-Link-Ads and there are Google referers.
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What you want from me →
I’ve recently installed the Wordpress.com Blog Stats plugin and it’s very good - it gives me pretty detailed stats from within my Wordpress Dashboard and much more reliable stats for the blog than I get from the stats system my host provides.
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New look
Changing my avatar
The importance of response
New Guardian
Is search enough?
Can you get too flash?
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Wordpress as a CMS →
Over the last decade or so that I’ve worked in New Media I’ve either used, developed, customised or researched dozens of content management systems for a wide range of end users. Wordpress is by far the easiest to use.
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Moan of the Moment: Why →
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Rest in Peace HD-DVD
Learn an instrument
The mundanity of routine
HD-DVD vs Blu-Ray
Torchwood embed
Ripping my DVDs
Embed from the BBC
MPH: Noise
Childrens Television
Video: Waving the towel →
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Rest in Peace HD-DVD
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HD-DVD vs Blu-Ray
Torchwood embed
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Embed from the BBC
iPlayer streaming
MPH: Noise
The evolution of a homepage Fetched from Up Your Ego 54 minutes ago.
Why do I keep becoming a fan of things on Facebook when I clearly know it’s just a back door advertising ploy.
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Watch the cows →
Here is a photo of three cows in a field - all Jersey cows - one is watching me and posing for the camera, the other two are posing for other cameras elsewhere.
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The evolution of a homepage →
One of the main advantages of a company going public beta with a product, or at least public beta with the new version of a site/homepage - is the simple fact that we get to see its evolution.
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Constant Capture Culture →
I carry a camera with me everywhere I go - either in the form of a Nikon D40 thats kept in my bag or, if I haven’t got my bag, the camera attached to my mobile phone.
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Back door adverts →
I logged into Facebook for the first time in about three weeks this morning and was confronted by a message telling me one of my friends has signed up as a fan of Marmite.
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When to reject on Facebook
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Usual Eurovision Rubbish →
In just three months time the campest of camp shows in the history of broadcasting will come around for the 52nd time. Yup it’s the Eurovision Song Contest again folks.
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Hello? Hellooooo? →
Hi there. You may be looking in your feed reader every day and thinking “Another no-news-‘bout-FeedBurner day.” You may be starting to think, “Are they still in there? In the FeedBurner bubble, burning the feeds? Did somebody maybe shut off their connection to the Tubes?” You may be thinking that or worse. We have some good news, and some just newsy news. First, the...
Sumatran Orangutan →
Here is a photo I took at Durrell Wildlife in Jersey last year of two Sumatran Orangutan’s playing in the grass - it looks like two family members but as I’m not a zoologist I wouldn’t have a clue.
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AppleTV tips for Podcasters →
I, and I’m sure everybody else with a Apple podcaster account have just received a series of Tips on making my Video Podcast more usable on the new Apple TV.
I don’t have a video podcast - yet - but for those of you that are thinking of launching one but have never signed up a podcast with iTunes - here they are:
Greetings from the iTunes Podcasting Team:
The Apple TV “Take Two” software...
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Rest in Peace HD-DVD →
I thought it worth throwing up an adapted version of the HD-DVD v Blu-Ray photo taken in Woolworths St Helier after the news that HD-DVD is finally dead.
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Spooks on iTunes →
I’ve just downloaded an episode of Spooks on iTunes and I’m pretty impressed with the quality. It’s 640 wide video, comes in at about 600mb for the one hour show and can be played even before the download has finished.
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My new TV process →
Photo credit Flickr CJ Sorg.
With the launching of BBC Television shows to buy through iTunes and the increasing usefulness of the BBC iPlayer and my increasing passion for Sky+ I have a new TV watching process.
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BBC Worldwide on iTunes →
BBC Worldwide have been selling digital downloads of TV and Radio shows (audibooks) through the BBC Shop website for a while now.
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Frost “I know my place” Report →
It was the show that led to the birth of The Two Ronnies, the formation of Monty Python and the regurgitation of The Goodies.
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To me - to you - to me
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To read or not to read →
I love to read, I have hundreds of books piled high around my living room, kitchen, bedroom and in boxes anywhere else. I always, or always used to have a book in my hand (walking down the street, sitting on a bench, on the toilet, on the sofa, over dinner).
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I’ve just changed my blog to the Revolution (magazine) theme. Should I start writing in pyramid style now or just rambling style?
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Changing my avatar →
Right now I have a Simpsonized picture of myself as my My Blog Log avatar - this basically appears on the homepage of any blog that uses MyBlogLog and that I visit.
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Lost the bug…
New look
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I am cult
It all falls back to Wordpress
Don’t blog enough
The importance of response
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Suckered by pre-peats →
Pre-peat: A first showing of an episode of a TV show online or on another channel the week before it’s due to air on it’s main network (example Torchwood on BBC Two and Three).
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Do we need politicians →
A while ago I was listening to Joanna Newsom watching the waves crash against the sea wall and pondering politics.
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