links for 2008-01-16

MobHappy » Blog Archive » My Thoughts On Today’s Steve Jobs Keynote.
Yawn.
Anybody else?
(tags: apple mac mwsf stevejobs mba)

I’ll Also Be Attending Mix08 in March

Joining the fun of VON.x and SXSW for my March conference tour is Microsoft’s Mix08, in Las Vegas.

Now in its third year, the “72 hour conversation” is Microsoft’s chance to show where they regard the web as moving (or where they’re going to make it come to, depending on your point of view). Those of […]

Cameraphones, Binoculars and Arty Landscapes

Been playing around with the camera on the N95 recently with some arty stuff alongside keeping an eye out for the unusual (and props to that blogging man Charles again for Photogamer), which lead me to grab a monoscope the last time I was over at my Mum and Dad’s. Some scenery first, the view […]

links for 2008-01-15

Davina McCall in talks with US TV bosses
Please take her!
(tags: davina mccall tv presenter us)

‘Brass Eye’ star plans terrorist comedy
Brass Eye star Chris Morris has revealed plans to direct a comedy film about terrorism. The comedian said he wants to poke fun at Islamic terrorism in the same way Dad’s Army laughed at Nazis.
(tags: […]

Predicting my MacWorld Coverage and the Steve Jobs Keynote

As you all know, tomorrow is the big MacWorld keynote. Rather than follow the crowd and predict what’s going to be announced, I thought I’d try to predict my own coverage instead…

Pic by Acaben, Flickr
He’s gone and done it again, hasn’t he? “It’s a brand new area of technology, we’re leading the way, there’s nothing […]

The Podcast Network in 2007, Some Numbers For You

Cameron has posted the 2007 summary for The Podcast Network over on the G’Day World Blog. The big numbers you can all take away from it are as follows…

Listeners: 5.5 million (5,411,993)
Downloads: 7 million (6,991,269)
Visits: 23 million (23,247,031)
Pageviews: 70 million (69,920,808)

Of course it’s not all been plain sailing, and Cameron’s went into some detail on […]

Tech Conference Podcast Coverage at SXSW Baby

Following on from the post yesterday on the organising of the SXSW podcast schedule, I’m happy to be working with Brad Graham and the rest of the bloggers at SXSW Baby, the unofficial weblog of SXSW (set up by Ev Williams, now of course at Twitter).
The daily podcast will be available to stream from the […]

I Disagree With The Organ Donor List Change to Opt-Out

So the big ‘try and take people’s minds of domestic matters’ politics issue in the UK toady is the proposed change of consent to the Organ Donor Register. It is currently opt-in (ie you have to specifically say “after my death I want my organs to be used to help others (or similar phrasing). The […]

Planning SXSW, and Edinburgh Fringe Comparisons

Two large scale celebrations are now rapidly becoming fixed points in my media year - Austin’s South by Southwest (SXSW) conference, and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. I cover both of these for The Podcast Network with daily shows of the events, happenings and people at each of them, and while they are both radically different […]

links for 2008-01-12

How To “Actually” Win A Fist Fight
In fact, if you’re actually in NEED of the information in this article, I can guarantee you that a trained martial artist or fighter will destroy you. But all things being equal, if you’re simply an untrained person who’s facing your schoolyard neme
(tags: guide life tips fighting bare knuckle […]

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