Thoughts from a Bafta nominated Podcaster, Blogger, Writer and Commentator.
James Whatley rounds up some points about the BlackBerry 10 launch today. In summary… Two phones, Android apps, terrible BBC appearance, Android apps (really), it’s “quite good”, RIM is now BlackBerry, and the NotAt3GSM meeting will have some samples for people to play with on Feb 28th. I’m hopeful that a review unit will be on its way to Edinburgh, and I’ll let you know my thoughts when and if I have something substantive.
Alright then Kickstarter, I’ll watch your merry dance around the subject on ‘what happens to the money if a project does not deliver’. It looks like you want to say ‘the money should be refunded‘ but are loathe to create a precedent. From the FAQ: If you realize that you will be unable to follow through on your project before funding has ended, you are expected to cancel it. If your project is successfully funded, you are required to fulfill all rewards or refund any backer whose reward you do not or cannot fulfill. A failure to do so could
Andrew Neil, to the Levenson Enquiry (pdf): My job is simply to interview whoever is provided, usually by establishing what they believe then taking the exact opposite position. Sometimes it’s indicated that we should avoid a certain topic or only go in a certain direction – the price of the politician coming on. Since I do only live programmes it is easy to ignore such strictures and there is never (or rarely) any come back.
Exhibit 1: Ryanair planning to provide adult entertainment through handheld devices on their aircraft. Exhibit 2: Ryanair’s continued PR coup of getting ready to charge people to go to the toilet. Exhibit 3: Profit!
Even after just a week in iTunes, The Unofficial Eurovision Song Contest Podcast is gathering subscribers and recognition. It’s been bouncing around the performing Arts category and has, so far, peaked at number 6. I’d always planned the first week of the Eurovision Podcast to deal with two issues – the first was to kick the tyres, get all the RSS feeds and directory listings sorted, and generally make sure it works before opening the taps up on the bigger shows. The second issue was how to bring up to speed those people who are new to Eurovision, or perhaps
Scoring, Voting and Douze Points (MP3 5.6MB 5 minutes 57 seconds) DOWNLOAD the podcast by right clicking on this link, or press play and listen in your browser. [powerpress] The short guides to the Eurovision Song Contest section of the podcast continues with a look at how the Semi-Finals and the Grand Final select the winners. The mix of public voting (by SMS and phone votes) and a selected jury in each country worked well in the final last year. Now this style is going to be used in the semi finals for the first time. But how does it
