This morning I received a message on Twitter from one of the few people I follow on the messaging service that I knew before I signed up. Gary Williams (AKA Sputnik101) is a London-based charity boss, environmental activist and music fan. This morning he was shocked to discover that the BBC appeared to have responded [...]
The UK radio market is in a state of flux. Ask an optimist and they’ll say it’s just ‘adjusting’ to the recession-hit economy. Ask a pessimist and they’ll say that radio is in terminal decline. As advertising revenues from traditional radio fall, station bosses at commercial stations are cutting corners by ditching presenters and networking [...]
If there’s one thing we expect from brands these days it’s openness. If there’s a problem we want to know why and what’s being done about it. The ease with which anyone, from a school dinnerlady to a corporate brand manager can set up a blog or Twitter account means direct conversation between brands and [...]
Manchester, the city I call home, has what Bart Simpson would call “A rep for being rude”. We don’t do things the conventional way here. Legendary record label that was never run for profit and leaked money all over the place but still produced amazing bands? Check. A culture of mutual support for artists across [...]
Tonight I feel like I have a huge weight taken off my mind. Over the past few days I’ve been engaged in an exercise of Zen-like realignment. Yes, I’ve been tidying up my email inbox. That might not sound particularly significant but then you don’t know quite how disorganised my inbox was!
I’ve been a Gmail [...]
Full MMS functionality comes to the iPhone… in the UK at least
Jan 08 2009
Posted by Martin as Mobile Phones
One of the most frequently requested features for Apple’s iPhone is Multimedia Messaging (MMS). Seeing as practically every phone in the past five years has had the ability to send and receive photos and other media attached to a text message the lack of this functionality in the supposedly high-end iPhone has always seemed strange. [...]
Amongst all the dross on TV over Christmas there were some real gems. BBC One’s Christmas Day evening lineup was particularly good. I ended up watching it from Doctor Who at 6pm right through to the end of the Blackadder documentary at 11.30. The problem is that it isn’t always Christmas and now we’re into [...]
Christmas is here and it seems a good opportunity to thank everyone who has helped make 14sandwiches a success during its first six months. I launched the site back in June and in that time it’s been Machester Evening News ‘Blog of the Week’ and was shortlisted for Best New Blog at the 2008 Manchester [...]
It’s a common grumble up and down the country at this time of year – “Christmas TV isn’t what it used to be”. I’m the same – every December I buy the Christmas issue of the Radio Times and flick through, tutting at page after page of abysmal programmes. “Not that film again!” “I see [...]
When I was 16 I went on a school trip to France. It was a memorable time for me; it was the first time I’d been away from home without my parents and not been painfully homesick and the first school trip when I actually had fun. I took a lot of pictures while I [...]
