05/11/2009
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Epsom, Surrey. KT19
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Epsom, Surrey. KT19
The Royal Television Society holds its biennial convention in Cambridge this September. Charles Allen, CBE, Chair of the 2005 Convention says this in the invitation blurb: “All of us in the TV industry, producers, broadcasters, are facing what has been described, rather painfully, as ‘Burning Platforms’. Add to that the very real threat of mass…
Some notes I made from today’s conversations which included @tonyhall @freecloud & @tibocut with a fortunate postscript one-to-one for me with @mistergough The RFH was being used today for a graduation ceremony. That chimed with my recognition that some people have “graduated” from Tuttle and that’s worth celebrating. “MayDay Rooms is a safe haven for…
Thanks to another @danlight & @sizemore collaboration I went to see a screening of City of Men tonight – it’s a follow-on from two things I haven’t seen so I can’t do the comparisons that others might, but I thoroughly enjoyed it. It felt like Macbeth meets Romeo and Juliet in a very hot place…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tq78v-mxeLI&fmt=18] From the earlier part of the week before the festival started and definitely before the sun came out. Our experience was that walking anywhere more than a couple of blocks marked you out as either a tourist or poor. Or like us, poor tourists. This happened to me a couple of years ago too…
Just saw the first instalment of the UK version of The Apprentice. I didn’t see very much of the Trump original, but from what I did see, our version (with Sir Alan Sugar in the megalomaniac [err… shurely giant of modern commerce] role) seems a little less theatrical but the format comes through, although the…
I don’t really know Dave Winer, but in the world of blogs, everyone feels like they know the people they read and I read Dave’s blog everyday and I listen to his Morning Coffee Notes podcast. Dave turns 50 today and he’s asked for links rather than presents. I’m glad to do that for him,…
yes! watch the thing!
awesome