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The divine right of the Huffington Post to rule the UK

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AOL’s Tim Armstong: What Amazon is to commerce, and what Google is to search, AOL has to be to content. We’re going to keep investing in taking risks and changes, we’re not going to make incremental moves. Going forward we think there is a big opportunity here. To me this sounds like a company believing it has a right to exist and therefore should be granted the biggest things just because they are there. That’s not how it works, iterate, iterate, iterate is how it works.

Analysing the UK Eurovision entry at The Stage

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Throughout the week in Oslo at Eurovision I’ve been doing an article a day for the Stage newspaper. The final piece was a look at the United Kingdom at Eurovision, and while some of it was a look back to the mistakes of 2010, it was mostly about looking forward and asking what now. In brief… Decide if you [the BBC] want to try again. Look in the mirror and say “the problem is us”. We failed because the song we put on stage was rubbish. Don’t coast to a song, make a decision and be proactive. Realise you are

A Big Weekend For UK Eurovision Fans

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For those of you who don’t follow Eurovision, the last month of Eurovision on Saturday nights on the BBC must have felt weird – to use ESC-philles it’s been like a little oasis before May, and the main contest in Moscow. It’s all coming to a head this weekend, as the final show is tonight and either Mark, Jade or The Twins of Francine and Nicola will be chosen to represent the United Kingdom. Tonight we’ll hear the song by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Diane Warren sung by the contestants, and it’s good to read that Lloyd Webber appears to

Liveblog: UK Eurovision, Your Country Needs You (ep 3)

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The national finals to find the singer for the United Kingdom’s entry into the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest airs tonight, and this is my liveblog of the show. Feel free to leave comments – but while the show is running you might be better responding to me via Twitter as well as the blog comments. 1940: And there we go. On balance a good result. The British public place one of the weakest acts in the bottom two, and Andrew Lloyd Webber doesn’t save her (Charlotte). Out of the four acts left, Emperors of Soul, Jade, Mark and The Twins,