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Top 20: Albums of 2010

Posted on December 21, 2010
Ok, this is the big one. What were the best records released this year? To be honest, I don’t think 2010 will be remembered as a ‘great’ year music-wise, although some good stuff did get released. It was a year when the hip and happening people told me I should be listening to Tame Impala, Gold [...

Top 10: Gigs 2010

Posted on December 20, 2010
Todd Rundgren ? Hammersmith Apollo 6/2/2010. Todd, costumes, glitter, and a classic album played in full. Wonderful. Jesse Malin and St Marks Social - 02 Academy London 8/12/2010. One of the best live performers I have seen in recent years. Never lets you down...

Top 10: Films 2010

Posted on December 16, 2010
Again, in no order. 1.The Kids are Alright ? Bar one brief part of the film where it almost looses itself, this was one of the better studies of the family dynamic and how familiarity, routine and change can effect family relationships/marriages. It also happens to be the most naturally funny film I saw this [...

Top 10: Best New Musical Discoveries

Posted on December 14, 2010
This list (in no particular order) is meant to be of people I have seen or heard about this year that took my fancy in some way or other. People that for the most part you wont have heard of, but that you should listen to. And in true Spinal Tap tradition, this top ten [...

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Top 10 Books 2010

Posted on December 10, 2010
It’s that time of year again. So here is the first of my many top 10/20s of the year. Top 10 Books Peter Carey - Parrot and Olivier in America Emma Donoghue - Room Pat Conroy ? South Broad Sofi Oksanen ? Purge Jonathan Franzen - Freedom Ian McEwan ? Solar Paul Murray - Skippy Dies Belinda Bauer ? Blacklands Jo Nesbo ? The [...

Hello dear friend?

Posted on December 06, 2010
I both decided to write to you. My name: Yuliya I want you warned, I of Russia, and I have a woman who just do not want a deception. As I heard a lot. I wish you had warned once. I search for serious attitudes. I am looking for marriage and love. I do not play games...

More ?adult chat? fun at Ofcom

Posted on December 06, 2010
Well Bang Media may have gone, but so called ‘adult chat’ channels/programming still seem to be taking up space in Ofcom’s broadcast bulletin. Unbelievably it looks like all the other channels do exactly the same things that got Bang Media into trouble - remember this is the sector where Ofcom regularly finds ?no editorial justification [...

Lewisham Council - Libraries axe deferred

Posted on December 02, 2010
My local Council held a meeting on Monday night to agree Revenue Budget Savings Proposals of �16.395 million for 2011-14, which includes �11.823m of proposals for 2011/12. Some braved the weather to demonstrate (and if you believe the press ‘riot’) What was interesting from a librarian point of view is that the proposal to close [...

New Phone

Posted on December 01, 2010
Ok, that’s not totally true, but as I have had to put my HTC Desire in for repair [problem with Home and Back buttons periodically not working] I have had to get another phone to use until it come back. Now, I had planned to just let my local T-Mobile Shop do this, but they [...

Bang Bang You?re dead

Posted on November 26, 2010
As I predicted (and here), Ofcom has today revoked four licences held by four TV broadcast licences (Tease Me; Tease Me TV and Tease Me 2 and 3) owned by Bang Channels Limited and Bang Media (London) Limited following serious and repeated breaches of the Broadcasting Code relating to the broadcast of unsuitable ?adult sex [...

End Users of online news clippings services: The NLA is coming for you.

Posted on November 26, 2010
The High court has made a ruling that could mean that copyright can be applied to aggregated online news headlines and that any business using a monitoring service may need to reach a commercial agreement with the NLA to legally view that content (even if that content is freely available on NLA member websites...

The day that music died

Posted on November 25, 2010
As someone who likes to get to gigs on a regular basis it has been a sad few months. In September the owners of the 100 Club on Oxford Street ? which has been going since the 1940s - announced that they were going to have to close down due to facing rates bills of [...

Self Regulation of UK broadcasting? Yes, says Daily Mail man

Posted on November 17, 2010
I was amused today to read a speech given by the new President of the Society of Editors, the Daily Mail’s executive managing editor Robin Esser, who is very worried about the restrictions on the media in Britain. Libel and privacy laws, Bribery Act, Data Protection Act, Harassment Act etc have all eroded our freedom [...

German Supreme Court rules deep linking copyright infringement

Posted on November 15, 2010
Interesting decision [HT @glynmoody] by the German Supreme Court Bundesgerichtshof (BGH) on the issue of deep linking and copyright infringement. From what I can ascertain from my rather poor understanding of German [happy to be corrected by anyone who does understand it better] The case involved the accessing of property maps by a housing company/Estate Agent...

ASA: The Bare Tits Project

Posted on November 10, 2010
Not content with pissing of Ofcom, it now seems Bang Media have also fallen foul to the ASA too. A TV ad, broadcast at 6.40am on Tease me 2, featured mock documentary footage titled “The Bare Tits Project”, in a parody of the film, the Blair Witch Project...

Big Society ? broadband for all (except Wales)*

Posted on November 08, 2010
I noticed this story on Friday, but the relevant press release has only just appeared on the Plaid Cymru website concerning just how the coalition government went about deciding which 4 parts of the UK should host super-fast broadband internet pilot schemes...

Latest Bang

Posted on November 08, 2010
Well, would you believe it, a new Ofcom Broadcast Bulletin comes out and Bang Media is in there yet again (pg 49). As I said here I fear the company’s trading days are numbered.

Too many cooks? : If you can?t stand the Copyright, stay out of the Web

Posted on November 05, 2010
Ever heard of Judith Griggs? No? Well she is becoming quite well known as the editor of Cooks Source magazine ? which has found itself in the spotlight this week over allegations of copyright infringement. These surfaced on the blog of Monica Gaudio when she discovered that an article she had written had appeared in [...

The Times they are a charging

Posted on November 04, 2010
News Corp announced this week that they had 105,000 online customer sales for The Times and The Sunday Times since the two papers began charging for access to their websites on July. Immediately the most interesting thing about the figures is what they didn’t say...

German Court says TV licence needed for online TV viewing

Posted on November 01, 2010
A couple of years ago I wrote a blog post asking whether under UK law a TV Licence was needed for viewing online and mobile TV in the UK, or whether just possession a mobile device or computer than was capable of receiving TV signals was enough to require you to get a licence...

Bang Media licence death wish continues

Posted on October 25, 2010
They’ve been away for a couple of weeks since I wrote this , but Bang Media are back in their rightful place in Ofcom’s Broadcast Bulletin again today. [They were joined by Over 18 TV and Babeworld TV ]. Once again it was Earlybird its daytime (05:30 and 09:00 ) interactive chat programme, and [...

ASA rules Waitrose telling porkies in ad

Posted on October 20, 2010
Do you know what “outdoor bred” means? Now according to Waitrose , “outdoor bred” is a wide used standard industry term meaning: that pigs were born in fields, where they were kept until weaning, and then they were moved indoors, into light and airy sheds with straw...

CILIP - Vote for change

Posted on October 19, 2010
It’s election time in the world of our professional organisation ? CILIP. Regular readers will know I have quite strong opinions on CILIP and how it represents its members ? leading me a few years ago to let my membership lapse. I am still not a member...

Book Ended

Posted on October 13, 2010
Well, I sit here with egg on my face. The Book I felt was perhaps the weakest on the Booker shortlist, won. Congratulations to Howard Jacobson. Having enjoyed some of his previous novels�I wont complain too much, and in that he can at least be called a ‘worthy winner’ but I am astonished the judges [...

Booker Gazing

Posted on October 12, 2010
The countdown is on. Later today the judges will declare this year’s Booker Prize Winner. William Hill have Tom McCarthy’s book the hot favourite at 8/11. Who will win? Well, I have read all six shortlisted books and here is my brief view...

It?s the end of eMusic as we know it ? but I feel fine

Posted on October 12, 2010
“Starting in November all individual tracks will be priced at 42p instead of 1 credit, and albums will be priced as the sum of the individual tracks. Rest assured, your monthly payments will not change and you will still be able to download the same number of tracks available today, if not more, depending upon [...

Will Ofcom strip porn channels of their licences?

Posted on October 12, 2010
Ofcom should really give Bang Media (London) Limited and Bang Channels Limited their own section in their broadcast bulletin, as they are pretty much in every one these days - Issue 157, 158, 163, 164, 165, 166 (They also appeared in 137, 151, 153 ). It is a very impressive run that is in [...

ECJ rules record company promo copies not subject to VAT

Posted on October 04, 2010
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that free ’samplers’ / ‘promo copies’ of recordings given to DJ’s and reviewers etc should not be subject to VAT. Ruling in favour of EMI the court found the terms ?samples? and ?gifts of small value? contained as exceptions within the VAT Directive 77/388/EEC covered the common [...

9th Circuit says Oregon laws aimed at protecting children from pornography ? too broad

Posted on September 24, 2010
A three-judge panel of the US 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that a pair of Oregon statutes that ban certain people from providing minors with sexually explicit information are unconstitutionally broad. The laws criminalising the furnishing ?sexually explicit material? to children and also criminalises furnishing a minor or ?us- [ing]? a ?visual representation [...

Things I learned about my HTC Desire on Holiday

Posted on September 16, 2010
I have just returned from a 12 day holiday in Spain ? my first with my HTC Desire, and I learned a few things that, if you own one, you should be aware of if you plan to data roam with one. 1) Unless it is hidden somewhere, you do not seem to have a function [...

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