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finally got around to watching the insane, dangerously irresponsible video that is “they call it polution we call it life” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sGKvDNdJNA the mind boggles (and […]

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CMBR – MRI/CT scans

Random conversations are great. I’ve been looking at mappings between cosmology and ‘other things’ for several years now. Recent conversations keep orbiting links between psychology, […]

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Interdependence Day

Interesting event today at http://www.interdependenceday.co.uk/ the Royal Geographic Society. The only thing missing from the site (and the RGS site!) is the address … so […]

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transmission.cc

“a gathering of video makers, programmers and web producers developing online video distribution as a tool for social justice and media democracy.” it said. it […]

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In response to…. PPL Licensing

In the guardian again, this time with my exequo hat on. http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1766532,00.html Again, it’s not a “bad thing” but an evolution of a licensing framework […]

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BBC launches Programme Catalogue

Another step function today on the web… http://open.bbc.co.uk/catalogue/infax “This experimental catalogue database holds over 900,000 entries” … from the 1920s onwards. This is one of […]

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BBC Creative Future

BBC Creative Future… (link) “The second wave of digital will be far more disruptive than the first and the foundations of traditional media will be […]

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Trivial Jargon

I often wonder quite how far the language of the Web (2.0 or not) must seem totally alien to everyone … this is a recent […]

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Online video, 10 years in.

It’s about 10 years since people started getting serious about online video distribution. RealVideo launched in ’97 and there was certainly a lot of dot.i.ness […]

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Climate change noticed…

Expect a lot of interesting things to start on this very soon. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1176980,00.html And, coming soon, http://www.global-cool.com/

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ATCs

Significant Hi-Fi geekery (hopefully my only such post) – ATC SCM100A’s – the Rolls Royce of loudspeakers (as used by BBC, Abbey Road and many […]

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Mr Cutler dies

It’s a sad day today … (bbc obituary) I’m glad I had the privilege of seeing him perform. Certainly one of the most influlential artists […]

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Binary Dust review

A lovely review of “Binary Dust” by Steve Mayall at www.musically.com “It often seems as if digital music manufacturers compete to cram the most technology […]

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HMRC

The HM Revenue & Customs site gets my award for the most confusing site(s) I’ve seen in a long time. compare this with this. Both […]

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BBC start multicasting

This is great news (the start of convergence at last): http://www.bbc.co.uk/multicast/ “The BBC & ITV intend to test the technical possibilities of streaming more of […]

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Digital Identity Top 10

Went to Cory’s talk on yet more digital rights management attempts. Can’t help thinking that either (1) this will be far too complicated to create […]

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In the Guardian

Got a mention in the Guardian today with my CI hat on… http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1699518,00.html I said a lot more in my interview of course, like it’s […]

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Poitiers presentation

Talk went ok. Dominique Proust was interesting – mapping the history of Music of the Spheres from Pythagoras to Kepler to Herschel, so I followed […]

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Rebranded CI launches

We just relaunched CI (www.ci-info.com and www.ci-support.com) with our new design, and started video delivery to iTunes for a dash of excitement. A nice start […]

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Your information aura

Your information aura Your mobile phone changes the definition of who and what you are, and since everyone has them, changes the reality of humans […]

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DEAF presentation

DEAF04: Affective Turbulence – Rotterdam (Netherlands) Biennial international festival for electronic art Played ds2 series1 Download Visual Presentation (PDF 2.4MB)

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Live-Demand: an introduction

Webcasting, Streaming, Digital Downloading and Broadcasting All these terms refer to the same thing: the ability to distribute media. Until recently, we’d been using TV, […]

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IMA Awards

IMA Awards – Virgin Radio win (again) This time I got to hand out the award, rather than helping them win.

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Radio Academy

Radio Academy – Online Radio Conference I was one of the speakers… quite interesting watching this industry evolve. Will be interesting to see when TV […]

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NAB Panel

Invited speaker on an NAB panel – with Real, MS and Apple My second NAB experience – only 111,000 delegates this time. And I still […]

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What does d::gen mean?

d::gen unpacks as ‘digital generation network’, or ‘data generation network’, and, given the .net domain, for ‘networking in a digital generation’ (hence dgen.net) The double […]

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