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WWF Paper Boat on the Telly
It floats!!! Very excited to see the WWF paper boat floating around covered in signatures on the telly last night. Firstly on the BBC News: Then on Newsnight: There’s lots of reasons why we decided that a piece of purely online activity…
The Crimternet
Image pilfered from here. A Dutch teenager has been arrested for allegedly stealing virtual furniture from “rooms” in Habbo Hotel, a 3D social networking website. The BBC cover the story here. It’s slightly more sinister than you might…
BBC Four on Comics
I’ve been watching BBC Four’s Comics Britannia season and enjoying it very much. I just caught the end of a show narrated by Ewan McGregor about The Broons, you’re unlikely to have heard of them (or Oor Wullie for that matter) if you’re…
Last FM Bought by CBS
Someone had to buy them at some point: BBC NEWS | Technology | Music site Last.fm bought by CBS
Media Organisations of the Future
Faris has a good write up of a presentation by Simon Waldman of the Guardian: What is a media company? I saw the same presentation (or a version of it) at a Microsoft day late last year. And I have to say I thought he put forward a really…
First Download Only No.1
I know I’m a day late, but forgive me, I’ve been away. The BBC write about how history was made on Sunday: Crazy by Gnarls Barkley went into the UK charts at number 1. Even though it’s not even available in physical shops yet. It’s one of…
Google Image Hoo Ha
BBC news reports on this rather odd story from the US. A judge in the States has ruled that Google have violated the copyright of Perfect 10 magazine (a high end ‘adult’ title). The violation results from the fact that Google shows…
BBC report on UK gamers from 6-65
From Boing Boing: BBC report on UK gamers from 6-65 – contains some amazing figures. “59% of 6 to 65 year olds in the UK are gamers. In total there are 26.5 million gamers in the UK. The average age of a UK gamer is 28 years old, and the…