Thoughts from a Bafta nominated Podcaster, Blogger, Writer and Commentator.
Microsoft deserves credit for giving Windows a new, modern face. And the company will surely please existing users by maintaining the old one and the ability to run older apps. But the combination will requiring re-learning the most familiar computing system on the planet. Walt Mossberg.
[audio:http://archive.org/download/tpc_fringe2012_26/tpc_fringe2012_28082012_26.mp3] My top ten moments of the 2012 Edinburgh Festival Fringe with music, chat, interviews, quotes, and more. More at the Edinburgh Fringe Podcast and The Stage. Follow via RSS or in iTunes.
The NYT app works, but it’s not stunning in any way. It does deliver what it sets out to do, and no more. What it does it does well, the presentation feels a little bit more than a block of text, and it carries over the layout that will be familiar to those of the full-web and print editions. My issue is how the NYT app feels when used next to other applications from other newspapers and media organisations. It feels unfinished, slap-dash, and lacking all the innovation other Windows Phone apps have.
As in previous years, the majority of my thoughts about The Eurovision Song Contest will be found on ESC Insight (www.escinsight.com). Rather than daily news about the Contest, an area well served by many sights, ESC Insight looks at some of the issues in more depth – think of it like a Sunday newspaper compared to the daily news of sites such as ESCxtra. Alongside the articles from myself, a core writing team of three others, and a number of regular contributors, it’s also the home of my Unofficial Eurovision Song Contest Podcast. There’s enough Eurovision news throughout the year for a
…because any future games will need to work on the PS Vita as well, so it’s a goodbye to UMD as The Playstation Show welcomes 2012 with a bit of Solid Snake action and MGS Peacewalker [audio:http://www.archive.org/download/tpcpsp_132/tpc_ps_20120116_132.mp3] MP3 – Show Notes – RSS Feed
The space ship, for some unexplained reason, remained looking like a police box in the dusty desert. I hope this will be explained later. The Guardian, 48 years ago, on the first episode of Doctor Who.
