A new paper out today from Deloitte called ‘TV+: perspectives on television in words and numbers‘ which covers some subjects close to my heart. I was particularly pleased to be invited by the Guardian to appear in some brief podcasts discussing it (along with Tess Alps from ThinkBox, George Entwistle from the BBC, Richard Welsh …
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TV scrobbling and attention data – What’s Dale been watching?
I love it when people take control of their own attention data. Dale Lane has set up a lovely TV scrobbling service in his house, allowing him to capture and share what he watches on TV. The overlap between rich information visualisations, attention data and television is fascinating. I’m not surprised to see Dale doing …
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Press the red button now…
This month, I’ve mainly been playing Burnout Paradise and rewatching The Wire.
Links for 2008-05-25
bowblog: What is Speechification? – Steve describes Speechfication. “we roam the corridors of the BBC’s archive selecting the stuff we think is really excellent, unusual or important and putting it on display” Wikiscanner reveals amusing HP-on-IBM vandalism – http://wikiscanner.virgil.gr is great, and helped me spot this cute litte edit from 2006. “Dell have now bought …
Links for 2008-04-16
Polaroid Digital Mobile Photo Printer (Zink) – Oooh. Zink (zero ink) technology. The colour lives in the paper. [See also here.] Song Chart Meme – a set on Flickr – Wonderful series of charts which represent song lyrics. Virtual Worlds News: Disney’s Virtual Magic Kingdom to Close Doors – Read the comments for a glimpse …
Links for 2008-03-01
Create a Google Talk chatback badge – Handy. Not sure I want to use it, but handy. KnowledgeBoard – ‘IBM gambles on a shift from the KM model’ – “the decentralising impact of Web 2.0 calls for a new approach, or what the big blue calls ‘knowledge sharing’” Baekdal.com: Lenovo X300 is Not a Cool …
Links for 2008-02-26
guardian.co.uk: All this online sharing has to stop – “But, um, music people? Better form an orderly queue. You think you were the first to suffer from your content getting ripped off and spread to the four corners of the earth? Get to the back of the line, bud. There’s a few people ahead of …
Links for 2007-12-17
Mainly TV related stuff, for a variety of reasons… The History of the Channel 4 logo and idents – All you wanted to know about the “4” logo BBC iPlayer FAQ – Will I need a TV licence to watch programmes on BBC iPlayer? – “You do not need a television licence to watch television …
Links for 2007-12-14
Extenuating Circumstances – BBC iPlayer – Don’t Cross the Streams – Excellent and detailed iPlayer review by Dan. The Guardian: Media FAQ – “while the regulations extend beyond traditional broadcasting to cover internet and mobile live streaming, receiving TV programmes on-demand, or say as part of an internet-based catch-up service, appears not to be covered.” …
24 Hour TV Marathon
My name is Roo and this is the longest day of my life or How to survive a 24 hour TV marathon Some friends and I talked for a long time about watching all 24 episodes of the first season of 24, back to back. If you take out the trailers each episode is only …