Category: Random

One of the funniest transition pages I’ve seen in forever – Might Big TV is now Television Without Pity…

Sing it with me, children…

When are you gonna come down?
When are you going to land?
I should have stayed on the farm.
I should have listened to my old man.

I’m having a minor moment about an article on the BBC’s news site which is very interesting and everything, but also completely ‘give away the twist why-don’t-you’-ish. The article is about the next Harry Potter movie, which makes me think that you probably should only click here if you’ve already read the book…

A good article on the state of the American music industry: Looking Grim at the Grammys. I don’t know how long it’s going to take contemporary culture to figure out, but fragmentation is the new monolith – cultures are separating along the lines of interest groups – and people belong to several over-lapping fragmented cultures rather than to the mono-culture. Technology will continue to get more adaptable and less expensive, and that means that the overheads of running a media operation should now be dropping as well. And that in turn means that a variety of entertainment product – small bands, small films, for small markets – some of which may go huge – should return to prominence. The internet is making people weirder. When will you people realise this?!

I’m going to say this quickly and get it over with. I didn’t get the Community Producer gig at the BBC, I am gutted. If you want to make me feel better about it then buy me something.

Here’s an interesting link from a couple of months ago – Jakob Neilson and the BBC Front Page. The BBC redesigned their front page a few months ago, shortly after Neilson released his book – which included an analysis of the old site. Neilson’s exercise (mainly useful for people who already have the book), takes you through the concerns that he raised about the old design and shows how many of them have now been resolved. More interesting for the geekier members of the studio audience, but hey.

Mr Morgan cannot sleep at the moment, so at half-past-one in the morning we met up for a walk around Maida Vale. We broke into Paddington Recreation Ground and talked about Lego and looked through his camcorder at nearby buildings on ultra-zoom. Then I made him a cup of tea and finally chucked him out of the door at 4am.

Ok – I’m not going to go into detail about my job interview on Friday, except to say that my friends over at Barbelith certainly played their part in trying to get me a job, while in the process… well I’ve said too much already! Tomorrow I find out whether I’ve got through to the third and final stage of the process – which will be an interview in two weeks time. Keep your fingers crossed for me, people…

Proselytising for the computing age – Why OSX is the future!

The future is Mac Porn. Don’t say I didn’t warn you. I stared salivating as soon as I saw the pictures. You can sometimes feel your heart-rate speed-up too. Weirdly I don’t think I have this reaction when looking a hot men any more. Tell me doctor, is there something wrong with me?