Tag: 2009

Le Travelling Geeks

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Yes Le Web is coming up (and the full program has now been published so you can sort who you want to see and when the best time is to nip out for a decent sized-lunch), but I’ll be doing a little something in Paris beforehand. The Travelling Geeks. Organised by Renee Blodgett for the two days before Le Web will see a number of us descending early on Paris to see some presentations form the latest European start-ups and what they are working on in a smaller, more intimate environment. I’m looking forward to it, partly because it’s going

Download your Junior Eurovision scorecard

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Ever wondered what the biggest search term is around Eurovision leading up to any of the contests? So would I! What I do know from my logs is that many people are looking for a scorecard they can print out and fill in as the contest progresses. In previous years I’ve just pointed to the BBC for people to get their card, but as they’re not taking part in Junior Eurovision (boo!!!) I’ll just have to do it myself.  Download your Junior Eurovision 2009 Scorecard Laid out in the running order for Saturday’s final, you’ve got a handy picture of

So what’s different in Junior Eurovision (or why nobody ever scores nul points)

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With Junior Eurovision on this weekend, I thought I’d take some time each day this week to build up to one of the biggest children’s singing contest in the world. Today… what’s different between this Eurovision and the ‘Adult’ Eurovision that happens in May each year. Who can sing? Given the name of the contest it’s a children’s song competition, so they need to be between the age of 10 and 15. Those singing the song must also have written the song (but from last year adults can help them a little bit). Each song must have been selected through

SXSW 2009 And Why I’m Going to All Three Conferences

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There isn’t a huge amount of doubt, but I’ve got enough dominoes lined up to say with confidence that I’ll be at this year’s SXSW festival in Austin, running from March 13th to the 22nd. SXSW is of course three festivals, an Interactive festival, a Film festival, and a Music festival… which pretty much hits every base that I like to talk about and get involved with. For the third year running, I’ll be attending all three conferences; and counting the number of times that “why don’t the Music industry listen to us” said at Interactive is balanced by “why