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Feb

8

500 Words

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Writing a short story, in less than 500 words, in under an hour, and starting with a totally blank canvas isn’t easy. But it’s fun. Maybe I’ll do this more often.

Apr

6

Letter to Hendrick: Clause 43 Digital Economy Bill

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I’ve just sent a letter to my esteemed local MP to encourage him to protect our photographs: Today sees the second reading of the Digital Economy Bill. I have today become aware of the potentially very damaging consequences of clause 43 of thus bill which: • removes the right of each individual creator and copyright [...]

Mar

19

Achilles (Carol Ann Duffy)

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Achilles (for David Beckham) from today’s Daily Mirror Myth’s river- where his mother dipped him, fished him, a slippery golden boyflowed on, his name on its lips. Without him, it was prophesised, they would not take Troy. Women hid him, concealed him in girls’ sarongs; days of sweetmeats, spices, silver songs… but when Odysseus came, [...]

Mar

3

save6music

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A few thoughts on the BBC’s strategic review: ‘Being efficient and offering better value for money’ is a very subjective principle. In comparison with Sky TV, the BBC offers ‘only’ 7 or 8 full-time equivalent TV channels and a similar number of radio stations. However, if Sky TV disappeared overnight its place in British culture [...]

Jan

26

Gaza

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I’ve just sent the following to BBC Complaints and have written to my local MP to encourage him to sign Richard Burden MP’s EDM. I would encourage my reader to join me. I have been greatly impressed by the BBC’s impartiality over the years and applaud the Corporation’s continuing efforts to be impartial. However, I [...]

Jan

4

The Manners Manifesto

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Straight from Andrew Collins’ blog, this is The Manners Manifesto (edited here, in full on his blog). It’s time for a return to— or a formalisation of— good manners. Here’s how we do it:

Nov

4

More of the same… and a zebra crossing

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Download dads lead the iPod generation | Money | The Observer iTunes is an a la carte model: you see the track you like and pay your 79p. A big drawback with iTunes is that it has inbuilt digital rights management (DRM), which prevents you playing ‘your’ music on anything other than an iPod [my [...]

Oct

9

Save the World (no mention of cheerleaders)

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In the continuing quest to rebuild the compilation tape that, as I recall, was the soundtrack to our 1985 summer holiday (along with ‘Brothers In Arms’), and while looking for this week’s free single of the week, I was surprised today to see on the iTunes Music Store that George Harrison’s catalogue has just been [...]

Oct

6

Further evidence emerges of Sony losing the plot

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Sony BMG’s chief anti-piracy lawyer: “Copying” music you own is “stealing”: Asked whether it is wrong for people to make copies of music which they have purchased, Jennifer Pariser, the head of litigation for Sony BMG, replied, When an individual makes a copy of a song for himself, I suppose we can say he stole [...]

Aug

21

Now I understand.

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A few months ago, Steve posted about a television series which, at the time, appeared unusually to be receiving its first airing on the Sci-Fi channel. By that time, the series was up to something like episode 6 and it didn’t seem like a good idea to start watching at that point. I now am [...]

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