Archive for April, 2006
Sunday, April 30th, 2006
Buying tickets for the Folk Festival
Every year Cambridge hosts a rather fine Folk Festival, sponsored in recent years by BBC Radio 2. And in recent years it has become rather popular, so as a result it is hard to get tickets. In response to this the City Council, which promotes the event, has decided to make it not […]
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Friday, April 28th, 2006
Off to India
I’m making a short trip to Delhi with the BBC next week, arriving on May 6 and leaving on the 10th. We’re going to record material for Digital Planet, and I’ll also be meeting up with the Delhi Bloggers on Saturday night for a chat.
I haven’t been to India before, and am looking forward to […]
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Tuesday, April 25th, 2006
What happened to ‘Gone Digital’?
As regular readers will have noticed, I haven’t written my roundup of the week’s Go Digital for a while. Partly that’s because the programme is now called ‘Digital Planet’, but it’s mostly because the production team has now started updating the BBC’s web page more regularly, so anyone looking for information about the people we […]
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Saturday, April 22nd, 2006
Moving life online
[As ever, you can read this on the BBC News website too]
The range of new web-based services on offer is vast and growing.
Inspired by the early success of innovators like the Flickr photo-sharing site and Google Maps, and funded by venture capitalists who seem to have recovered from the trauma of the dotcom crash, we’re […]
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Friday, April 14th, 2006
For ‘We Media’ read ‘They Media’
Just surfing around, as I do, when I came across an interesting piece on the Media Guardian website about Reuters’ plans to partner with Global Voices to provide blog comment around major stories.
The final paragraph noted in passing that ‘Global Voices Online will be taking part in the forthcoming London-based We Media event forum that […]
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Wednesday, April 12th, 2006
Fourplay
[As ever, you can also read this on the BBC News website]
Convergence is in the air again, but this time the focus is not on multi-media phones or bizarre combinations of functions like pacemakers with integrated MP3 players and DAB radios.
The real interest at the moment is convergence at the service delivery end, following ntl’s […]
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Wednesday, April 12th, 2006
Never mind the OS X
[You can also read this on the BBC News website]
Back in 1976, the Sex Pistols were playing their first gigs, and Joe Strummer went off to form The Clash after playing support to them.
At the same time, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne set up a company to sell the Apple I computers they […]
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Sunday, April 9th, 2006
Home from Cuba
Lili and I are back from our trip to Havana, where we had a fantastic time, of which more later. Just chugging through th accumulated emails, so here’s a photo of me and the boys to give you a taste….
