Not so splendid isolation
Thursday, January 24th, 2008Did you see Horizon on Tuesday night? If you didn’t catch it, check it out while you can on the BBC iPlayer; it’s the most interesting (and disturbing) programme I’ve seen for quite some time.
Interesting because of the basic premise; six people volunteered to be shut away in solitary confinement and sensory deprivation for 48 [...]
57 channels and nothing on
Wednesday, January 16th, 2008My friend Skimmer has a blog entry about the current drive in the UK to get people switched over from analogue to digital television equipment, ready for when the analogue signal is switched off for good in 2012. He makes a good point that the UK public are being pressured into updating their equipment when [...]
BBC - TV for the nation? Um…
Wednesday, October 17th, 2007So we all know that the BBC launched their iPlayer earlier in the year only for Windows users. (The iPlayer allows licence holders to download certain TV programmes for up to 30 days after broadcast, to enjoy at their leisure on their computer.)
Today, the BBC announced a new deal with wi-fi providers The Cloud to [...]