This week a major victory was won for the old fogies of the music world. The European Union announced a plan to extend the copyright term on recordings from 50 to 95 years. This means that an aging rocker who played washboard on a skiffle hit back in 1959 won’t need to worry about where [...]
It was with a smile on my face that I read last night’s announcement of the new Last.fm iPhone app. I make no secret of the fact I love Last.fm. Even being bought by CBS hasn’t stopped them being ’some nice people in London who do brilliant things with music and social media’.
The new iPhone [...]
A couple of days ago I was alerted (via David Ottewell’s excellent Politics blog) to something interesting going on quite close to where I live in Manchester, UK. Yes, Trafford Council have embraced web video and are using it to create a weekly news programme about goings on in the area. Great! [...]
Tonight I saw the most hauntingly beautiful, shivers down your spine ad I’ve seen this year. What’s more it wasn’t even a proper ad, it was a Channel 4 trail for their ‘Disarming Britain’ season which starts next week.
Lasting nearly four minutes, it shows gangs of youngsters aged between about 16 and 25 in various [...]
The other day I talked about how society had obviously not progressed very far if people were getting upset about two men kissing in a metaphorical way in an advert for mayonnaise. I said the first gay kiss in a soap was “nearly fifteen years ago”. Turns out I was wrong. I [...]
An idea for BBC iPlayer 3.0 – TV Scrobbling
Jun 25 2008
Posted by Martin as BBC iPlayer, Internet, Media
The BBC has today announced a brace of improvements to iPlayer. iPlayer 2.0 is due to launch in Beta ’soon’. In a blog post, the Beeb’s Head of Digital Media Technology, Anthony Rose, runs through some of the major changes.
Improvements include making it easier to find programmes using genre pages. Want to [...]
Welcome to the 21st Century. If you’d have asked people 50 years ago what society would be like now I’m sure they’d talk of hover cars, robot housemaids and teleporting to Mars for a holiday. Of course, none of that has come to pass (unless you count novelty robot dogs as housemaids, in [...]
