Oh dear. I rejoined (and I mean paid to rejoin) Ecademy.com today to contact someone. About 3 hours later this turns up: “Welcome to eCademy – I notice that you have recently joined. If there is anything that I can help you with – just ask. You do tend to get a lot of people contacting you in this manner at the start – but – really – feel free
I went to a press preview of the Hitch Hikers guide to the Galaxy last week. All I can say is that it was fantastic. Dougls Adams (who I had the privilege of meeting once, back in the day) would be proud. As a small boy in the early 80s, I joined a club at school where the pasword was Xanthric Restructron Destabalising Xenon Emitter. Nuff said. Go see the
UBC Media, owner of Classic Gold analogue and digital stations, is investing in technology to let listeners push a button on their radio and transfer songs to their computer. UBC, which also produces programmes for BBC radio, hopes to announce partners in the music and radio industries for the venture shortly.
Skypecasting – using Skype to broadcast, podcast-like (se also Slashdot). Now I’ve seen everything….. Form here on I think we thould mount a campaign to take back the word broadcasting, because in 5 years time, we’ll have to revert back to describing what all this actually is: broadcasting (no-one will be bothered about whether it’s delivered over IP, Wi-Fi, 3G, Wi-Max or ultrawideband).
Here’s the confession. Actually if if it was a hoax, it has certainly turned the world on to the possibilities of Bluejacking, and bluetooth communication, which, who knows, may lead elsewhere… For now we can savour a great hoax – pulled on the entire planet it seems.
Few people know this but The Feature, which comes across as some sort of independent commentator on the mobile industry, is in fact wholly funded and owned by Nokia. Under the site’s terms and conditions you will find: “3. Copyright. The contents of this Site are Copyright Nokia Corporation 2000.” I always wondered how they had the budget for Howard Rheingold. This would, of course, have implications for any writers
“London Underground“, the version of the song Paul Weller wishes he’d written, and the reason I ride a Brompton in London. Very funny.
Ivan Pope has re-invented the term “social software” as “social media” – or “smedia” as he’s branded it. The short story is he thinks there is a business in blogging inside businesses as a form of knowledge management. He’s late to this thinking compared to the US (see corante.com for instance), but probably early in terms of the UK/European market.
Nathan Barley is a great idea for a show – the piss-take of the Hoxtonesque/London media-luvvy-come ‘web designer’. But there are a couple of problems with it. It could be about 4 or 5 years too late – all the really trendy web designers left Clerkenwell years ago after the crash. (Or perhaps that’s the point – the best ones left way back then, leaving the dubious ones behind?) But
.. but, as I said in 1999, the media battles of the future (or now even) are between Gates and Murdoch. Handily, I see the Guardian returned to this theme this week: “Gates and Murdoch are going head to head for mastery of the next generation of TV and telecom devices.”