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Telegraph video splash

July 23rd, 2008 by Tom

The Seaton Canoe two is video splashed by the Telegraph at 8.16pm. Is it a first for a mainstream paper to video splash a story like this? It’s certainly an example of how the Telegraph is beginning to leave their competitors behind when it comes to the digtital world (thanks Andy)

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New look Mirror

July 23rd, 2008 by Tom

I like the new design of Mirror.co.uk. Nice and crisp.

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Karadzic

July 23rd, 2008 by Tom

Is this the first time an international fugitive has started a web site. Is it authentic for that matter? (thanks to TS for the link).

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Royal Mail

July 21st, 2008 by Tom

The showusabetterway competition has gained the support of the the Royal Mail. And I’m grateful. They’ve made the postal address file  available for the purposes of the competition. Details of how to access the data for the competition are on the showusabetterway site.

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Prescott’s left jab, the punch that changed history

July 21st, 2008 by Tom

Michael White with a Prescott punch counterfactual.

‘The intriguing point Lanchester raises, the one which I missed in the Times Literary Supplement, is a good one. “If 16-stone Prescott had hit the egg-thrower with his right, he would have knocked him out and quite likely have broken his jaw.” At which point public sympathy, which went Prezza’s way at the time, might well have swung the other way. A voter in hospital might have required him to resign.’

The other point though, that Prescott had almost no idea how big the guy he punched was, should be explored. His response was instinctive. The egg hit him, his left are flew through space at lightening speed. What if the egg thrower to his left had not, in fact, been a burly Welsh young farmer but a militant yet small old granny?

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The Widget Factory

July 21st, 2008 by Tom

Simon’s showusabetterway entry: The Widget Factory. I love the idea.

Wouldn’t it be great if there was a resource in government that did this? A small team whose job it was to craft widgets that government departments could release into the wild of the world wide web.

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Presidential memorial commission

July 19th, 2008 by Tom

The George Bush memorial sewage plant? San Francisco votes on it in November.

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McNulty is a Brit

July 17th, 2008 by Tom

Series 5 of The Wire (a study of institutional morality masquerading as a cop show) starts next week. Yay. But I simply cannot believe tha McNulty went to Eton with David Cameron.

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Street music in London

July 17th, 2008 by Tom

The three year old has kept me awake most of the night so I might as well write about Boris Johnson and busking on London Underground. Apparently, there used to be an online booking system that allowed licensed buskers to book a pitch on key sites of the Underground.

I had no idea that in the bad old days of Ken there was a; a quality filter for busking b; an innovative technical solution that ensured that we were not bombarded by 20 people strumming ‘house of the rising sun‘ at the same time and c; a million pound sponsorship deal that funded the administration of the project.

Anyway, that’s all gone. The sponsorship of the scheme has been cancelled. The website booking system has gone. Now you have to ring someone in London Underground the day before you want to perform.

(h/t perfect path)

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Apathy ‘08

July 15th, 2008 by Tom

Choose indifference.

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Twitter enters the corridors of power

July 15th, 2008 by Tom

Technology big time: Let our Congress Tweet. Love it.

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Ken Livinstone on Conservative independence

July 14th, 2008 by Tom

Very amusing letter to Patient Wheatcroft. (h/t Charles)

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Triumph through adversity

July 14th, 2008 by Tom

Dave’s made it to the Independent.

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Representative John Culberson and a row in Congress over Twitter

July 13th, 2008 by Tom

“I just learned the Dems are trying to censor Congressmen’s ability to use Twitter Qik YouTube Utterz etc - outrageous and I will fight them” said Representative John Culberson on his Twitter feed last week. And then the row escalated to the New York Times and beyond.

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Miles Dyer - Free to express

July 13th, 2008 by Tom

This new Number 10 thing where you can post video messages to the PM is actually really rather good. Miles Dyer wins the day with his freedom of expression question. You have to scroll along to the right to find him.

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Trust on Twitter

July 13th, 2008 by Tom

So you meet someone through the Internet, you persuade your best friend to rent out his home to them. Then you get upset when it goes awry.

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