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Archive for August, 2009

Bye Bye Big Brother

So Big Brother is being evicted from the C4 schedules and it’s time to measure its legacy. It’s not all bad. BB certainly did revolutionise TV programming: along with coverage of Wimbledon and Glastonbury, it helped popularise the use of the “red button” to access other video streams; it also brought in phone voting, connecting [...]

The future and the blindingly obvious

 
Media companies, but particularly newspapers, have had their knickers in a twist for some time now as they wonder how to make money out of “online”. That is, the provision of information via the internet which, before the advent of the internet, they were able to charge money for. It is almost axiomatic today that if [...]

Meerkat research

In the interest of feeding back to the media industry some of what real people think about their work, I offer this apercu.
I have just entertained two family members to three nights free B&B including evening meal (family maxim: house guests are like fish - they stink after the third day) and we fell, as [...]

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