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Jun
21st

Sat

The brilliant Adam Buxton has been at it again … (via Twitter - thanks Gia)

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ITV’s £20m investment in broadband TV is starting to pay off, with 12 million views of programmes or clips on ITV.com in May and programming including Coronation Street, Britain’s Got Talent and Euro 2008 football among the biggest online video hits.

— ITV’s web video figures rocket | Media | guardian.co.uk

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Jun
20th

Fri

The Insider: You can’t film here

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Jun
13th

Fri

A man was handcuffed, arrested and charged – after laughing too much at Have I Got News For You. Christopher Cocker, 36, guffawed so hard at a joke Paul Merton cracked on the BBC One show that he fell off his sofa. The thud startled his downstairs neighbour who thought he had collapsed, so called police.

— Criminally funny… : News 2008 : Chortle : The UK Comedy Guide

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Blocking spam registrations with name fields

Britcaster.com - the original home of the Uk’s podcaster community - still ticks over in a lazy backwater of the internet receiving a handful of new show registrations each week. It also…

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Unfortunate juxtaposition of the week

(thanks Gia)

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Jun
10th

Tue

Radiohead’s decision to offer their latest album on a pay-what-you-like basis online “to some extent backfired”, U2’s manager has said. The majority of fans who downloaded In Rainbows ignored the band’s website and acquired it illegally by other means, Paul McGuinness told BBC 6 Music. “Sixty to 70% of the people who downloaded the record stole it anyway, even though it was available for free.” U2’s next album - due this year - would not follow the same approach, he added.

— BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Radiohead album idea ‘backfired’

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Jun
3rd

Tue

TheyWorkForYou has video of the House of Commons from the BBC, and the text of Hansard from Parliament. Now we need your help to match up the two. We’ve written a little Flash app where you can (hopefully) match up the written speech being displayed to what’s playing on the video. We’ll then store your results and use them to put the video, timestamped to the right location, on the relevant page of TheyWorkForYou.

— Video speech matching (TheyWorkForYou.com)

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May
24th

Sat

Fortune telling, for entertainment purposes

This is a terrific story, bringing fortune tellers and the like under consumer protection legislation - as The Times says, they must have seen it coming…

Fortune-tellers and astrologists will be bracketed with double-glazing salesman under the new Consumer Protection Regulations. The changes, which implement an EU directive on unfair commercial practices, require businesses for the first time to act fairly towards consumers and will outlaw diresputable trading activities.

Fortune-tellers will have to tell customers that what they offer is “for entertainment only” and not “experimentally proven”. This means that a fortune-teller who sets up a tent at a funfair will have to put up a disclaimer on a board outside.

So where does this go next?

(actually it seems that consumer protection doesn’t apply if it isn’t a commercial transaction - so that’s OK then)

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May
23rd

Fri

Music to talk about

The BBC’s Sound Index is an interesting new project.

It would be even more interesting if it was opened up to include unsigned and podsafe artists, don’t you think…?

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