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RAJAR Q3 2026
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Classic FM Download Service
Classic FM has launched a download service, and guess what? It’s offering mp3s using eMusic as their partner. This is a smart move, and I might even give the service a bit of a go. But a couple of things: 1) They really should be shouting a bit more about the fact that they’re offering…
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South Bank Show Online
The South Bank Show is one of those programmes that I always mean to watch, but then it ends up being on so late on a Sunday night that I simply don’t get around to it. I did want to see it last night, featuring a profile of author JG Ballard. But it turned out…
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The Demise of YouTube?
Mark Cuban’s completely correct in his analysis of YouTube, and why things can’t go on. I know that there’s this DCMS takedown setup, but how can a system that’s chock full of copyright material, and reliant on it for page impressions, not be responsible for itself? It’s really not the same as providing webspace. I’ve…
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When Automated Systems Don’t Work
Amazon has a feature whereby it examines your previous buying record and recommends new products of a similar nature. I’m sure it’s similar to “Customers who viewed this item also viewed” really. Except that today I got the opportunity to buy the new Le Carré novel, The Mission Song for the bargain price of £30!…
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Google News Recommendations
When did Google News start analysing my recent Google searches and recommending appropriate news content? Very clever, although this might highlight certain privacy issues. Yes I know that with myself logged into Google it’s tracking my search history, but do I want that in my news?
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BSG Webisodes Outside US
An excellent piece on the stupidity of making something available free in some territories but not others. Surely we’ve now reached the stage where as much as possible, things should be made available internationally? In the meantime, you drive your customers to “other places” to get their fix. And to think that I’m now seeing…
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Times Today
Just a reminder that one of the best films you’re ever likely to get free is inside The Times today. In The Mood For Love is inside every copy. Grab one now! And yes, I know that this makes me sound like a Murdoch shill.
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Strictly Come Dancing on the Red Eye
The BBC brings news of the return of Strictly Come Dancing in October. I won’t dwell on the celebrities they have this time around, except to mention that all four usual judges return including Len Goodman and Bruno Toniolli. I mention those two in particular because they also make up two thirds of the US…
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Broadcast Blog
Broadcast has a blog. Broadcast has RSS feeds. Sadly they don’t have an RSS feed to their blog. Brilliant!
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Roseanna
A few weeks ago, I read what turned out to be the second in the Martin Beck series of novels by Sjöwall and Wahlöö. The first is Roseanna, in which we’re introduced to the detective and his colleagues. This book, in a newly published imprint, is introduced by Henning Mankell, a long time favourite of…
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The Death of Achillies
The fourth in the Erast Fandorin sequence sees our Holmesian Russian hero returning from the far east with a Japanese colleague in tow. In Moscow he’s given the job Collegiate Assessor, but no sooner than that has happened than his old friend General Sobolev is found dead in vaguely suspicious circumstances. At first, we are…
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