Here come the British Media on Independence Day
Three British media names (The BBC, The Guardian and the Daily Mail) and thoughts on how they plan to attack the US market.
Category: Mainstream Media
Last.fm, the UK charts, and the impact of the KLF
Admittedly, what’s more striking is that there seems to be a downward pattern, as if some kind of music was getting slower and slower over the years. There’s also a a strange cluster of tracks around 120 bpm from the early 80s to the early 90s – the big red blob in the middle. Last.FM spot a pattern in the UK charts… not because it was the default BPM on the Roland-78, but because the KLF told everyone that "120 is the classic BPM for House music and its various variants."
A modern 21st century digital network for Scotland, or a tired clichéd TV station?
[Iain Hepburn’s] manifesto for a truly digital network for Scotland: Dump the plans for a new state broadcaster. Take the money earmarked for the broadcast channel, and use it to provide a free baseline 3MB broadband service and router for every home in Scotland. Take the bandwidth earmarked for the broadcast channel, and use it to launch a cross-platform interactive Scotland channel. Run a wee TV station, or make a huge difference to the life of many in Scotland, empowering them with tools, access and content not filtered by a handful of people in Glasgow and Edinburgh? Count me in
Labyrinth, twenty five years later
From Den of Geek’s tribute: The labyrinth turns out to be a surprisingly bureaucratic place, a kind of live-action videogame text adventure where you have to ask precisely the right questions before you can get any useful info. During her time there, Sarah manages to shake off not one, but two drug-induced hallucinations. She’s given a basic introduction to extrapolated logic from some Scottish jesters, and finds that her potential helpers are more likely to start arguing with their hats than give her useful directions. Again, quite a lot like your first Glastonbury. You can tell a lot about someone
Burning Platform 2 – The Guardian Strikes Back?
The problem is, many of The Guardian’s pull-out sections, such as media, tech or public sector, are/were reliant on recruitment ads. Now, you’d think that with a subject like tech, where The Guardian had an excellent reputation and a great editorial team (and I say that not just because I used to freelance for the tech section), there would be plenty of opportunity to widen out the advertising from recruitment to display ads, sponsorships, events, etc. But that’s not what happened… …In short, this is exactly the sort of editorial self-immolation that Rusbridger says he wants to avoid. But if
Leno vs. Conan, in words!
You know what looks a good read for the summer? The War for Late Night. If it’s anything like Bill Carter’s previous book (which would be The Late Shift, essentially Leno vs. Carson), then it will be wonderful, humorous, and disappointing all at the same time.
