My OPL Book has Some Shelf Wear at Amazon

Should I be worried, amazed, or happy that my programming book “Rapid Mobile Enterprise Development for Symbian OS: An Introduction to OPL Application Design and Programming” currently has an Amazon ‘New and Used’ copy available with ‘Brand New, Some shelf wear‘

Scottish Election: Liberal Mind Games in Edinburgh North and Leith

The elections to the Scottish Parliament are approaching, and I’m interested to see what election literatue is pushed through my door. So far I’ve recieved leaflets from The Green Party and this morning a letter from the Scottish Liberal Democrats candidate Mike Crockart arrived. It’s a masterly piece of political writing, with the lovely […]

Why Not Blogging Is Not The Right Response

In the Great War (1914-18), over nine million people died. To remember them, those who have fallen in the Second World War, and others who have fallen in battle, an annual silence for two minutes is held on the eleventh day of the eleventh month; Rememberance Day.

I therefore find the inital campaign idea of the […]

Radio Killing the Internet Radio

I talked previously about the effect that internet music distribution sites was having on the large music conglomerates. Today has also seen the issue of ‘Internet Radio’ reach a potentially devasting fork in the USA with an almost tripling of the copyright fees that each station has to pay, and the removal of the ‘percentage […]

Google Announces Presentation - ‘But It’s Not An Office Killer Strategy’

News from the O’Reilly Web 2.0 Expo from Google, is that they’ve gotGoogle Presentation ready in the wings. It is going to sit alongside their Word Processor and Spreadsheet offerings as part of an ‘online’ suite of applications, that’s in the same space as Gmail and GCalendar. But we’ve not to draw the obvious comparison […]

Mowser! Russell Beattie Is Back!

Sounding for all the world like a mobile application for Scooby Doo and Shaggy is long time mobile blogger and commentator Russell Beattie. Not surprisingly, his project is based in the mobile space. It’s the Mowser website- a combination of HTML parser, transcoder, keywords and mobile directory.
The Mowser Blog picks up the story on what […]

I’m the Doctor…

Can I write about Doctor Who now? Good. I’m utterly amazed at the first three episodes in Season 29, now running on the BBC. And I’m even more utterly amazed at the zeitgeist building up around a TV series that had it’s debut episode on the day after the shooting of JFK. What’s more amazing […]

Google Advertising on Traditional Radio

It’s not really a surprise, but Google is nicely expanding it’s core product away from search engine to advertising, and it’s recent purchase of DoubleClick, along with today’s announced deal with the radio conglomerate Clear Channel, it should be obvious to everyone.

…the partnership with Clear Channel represents a step forward for Google. The deal will […]

Dear Don Imus, We’ll Hire You!

Don Imus was paid $8 million dollars a year. his show brough in $40 million dollars a year. He’s been fired from his US talk radio show (which was also “webcast” on morning TV). In no way was this because he upset the Media Barons who owned the transmission mechanism (or that he’s good at […]

One Or Two New Bits On The Site

Thanks to the new Hemingway theme, I’m able to add in some features that I’ve been meaning to do for some time, but that weren’t really practical on the old ‘Purple Train’ template. One of them is the integration of Clipmarks.
Clipmarks is a web service that Eric Skiff is involved in (Eric and his wife […]

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