What will Amazon do with its multi-million dollar domain name purchase? | Continue reading
Why did countless Americans tune in to The Tonight Show? Because no matter the guests, there was one single constant the viewer could rely on. | Continue reading
I’ve been working with Scottish Book Trust to launch a podcast for Book Week Scotland. Here’s a little bit more about the Conversations Podcast and where you can listen to it. | Continue reading
I’ve been working away at building a small community around livestreams, clips, and reviews, of ZX Spectrum games. Here’s how it started and what the next few steps are. | Continue reading
August in Edinburgh means it’s Festival time, which includes the Fringe. And with the Fringe comes my annual podcast and radio show from Scotland’s capital. For those of you already sub… | Continue reading
If not Craig Newmark, who would you have preferred to run what we know as ‘Craigslist’? | Continue reading
Contribute to a song, the song makes money, you get paid. It sounds simple, but even in the 21st century there’s a problem. | Continue reading
MySpace has confirmed that music uploaded to the service between 2003 and 2015 has been lost, with no hope of recovery. It’s been a year since the music links on Myspace stopped working; at f… | Continue reading
Apple, Facebook, Amazon, and Google are not the 21st century Ma Bells in need of breaking up. | Continue reading
Your data may be in the cloud, but can you safely export it? As another services closes, isn’t it time you should check? | Continue reading
The BBC and ITV have announced BritBox, yet another streaming service trying to sign up as many people as possible for a monthly fee, is going to be coming to the UK. Which sounds lovely, but what … | Continue reading
The rise of Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, and the online streaming services looks to be driving a growth in BitTorrent usage and media piracy. When consumers are given easy and almost friction free access… | Continue reading
If there’s one thing many people agree on, it’s that podcasts are not an easy way of earning income (although is there truthfully any easy way online?). John Corcoran’s look at s… | Continue reading
Not long after attending my first Eurovision Song Contest (Moscow 2009) I wrote this: Terry Wogan’s continuous thirty-year run as Commentator for Eurovision started in 1980, when he was 42. G… | Continue reading
It’s coming up on six weeks since my last ‘full body’ seizures and ‘just the leg’ tonic clonic seizures. Things are going well. As I noted in my last post on the subje… | Continue reading
What happens when you try to power up and look at the contents of your seventeen year old iPod? James Bareham fights Firewire cables, antiquity, and Thunderbolt dongles to find out. And the results… | Continue reading
Always nice to see someone go a little bit deeper into the world of Cube’ing. It;s more than Rubik, but Quartz’s Weekend Obsession post is a good starting piece: The breakout story of t… | Continue reading
I had posted this on Facebook, but of course it’s now a week later so is impossible to find. And you wonder why old hands like me prefer our own blogs on our own servers… TL/DR: I’ll be… | Continue reading
Last Friday saw one of the moments where numbers conspired to mean something. Over on ESC Insight, I posted the five hundredth episode of my Eurovision Song Contest podcast. There was nothing parti… | Continue reading
Apple’s legendary response to the issues with the iPhone 4 antenna was “you’re holding it wrong” (before it started to sell suitable bumper cases). As the iPhone X (iPhone Ten?) takes to the stage,… | Continue reading
Cool Hand Luke, Kelly’s Heroes, Dillinger, The Godfather Part II, Alien, Escape from New York, Christine, Paris, Texas, Repo Man, Pretty in Pink, The Last Temptation of Christ, Wild at Heart,… | Continue reading
How are you going to reach your apps on the new iPhone X with no home button? Gestures! Getting back to Home, as well as accessing App Grid and Top Menu rely on Edge Swipes. Perform an Edge Swipe b… | Continue reading
[audio: Imagine if the only football you watched was the FA Cup Final in May? If the only baseball game of interest was the World Series. If the only American Football match was the Superbowl. And … | Continue reading
Most people have a good idea how good or bad the summer blockbuster movie season was, and I think most people could agree that the quality was not as high as earlier years. For every ‘Baby Dr… | Continue reading
It’s accepted that Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’ sold over one hundred million copies. But do the numbers add up? A fascinating look at sampling, rounding up, sales tracking,… | Continue reading
When the snap General Election was called in May, I wrote at the time that my first thought was about the result. Or at least how to cover the result. It was this. “I need to get behind a microphon… | Continue reading
Walt Mossberg’s final weekly column. He started out in 1991 with “computers are just too hard to use”, and ends with the dangers of ambient computing and its power resting in a fe… | Continue reading
If you’re looking for signs that there’s another revolution on the way, then the price of storage is an interesting figure. In the last twelve months the cost of one gigabyte of data ha… | Continue reading
Tuesday’s announcement of a General Election in the UK for June 8th caught me a little by surprise and set off a riot of emotions. I tend not to talk about politics too much online, so many of the … | Continue reading
The Guardian’s Ben Beaumont-Thomas talks to the team inside Microsoft who developed Comic Sans, and while the big takeaway is that the font was inspired by ‘The Dark Knight Returns̵… | Continue reading
After the first year of hosting my daily chat show at the Edinburgh Fringe (which is still running thirteen years later), Brian Luff gave me one of the best pieces of advice I have had in my broadc… | Continue reading
I’ve been a regular at Austin’s SXSW for far longer than I care to remember. It’s a heady mix of music, film, and ‘interactive’ stuff and I’ve always met many ol… | Continue reading
For those following MWC remotely (or need something to listen to on the hike to the Barcelona gatherings), Rafe Blandford is part of the DigitasLBi UK team who are bringing (hopefully) daily shows … | Continue reading