Key duties for Channel 4 in the new Digital Economy Bill are as follows:
the making of relevant media content that consists of news and current affairs,
the making of relevant media content that appeals to the tastes and interests of older children and young adults,
the broadcasting or distr…
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Added by Stuart Cosgrove on November 20, 2009 at 10:07pm —
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I am a great lover of dramatic paradox, cruel juxtaposition and decorative : colons..
So in the week that Bebo has announced it has
frozen all commissioning and decimated its…
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Added by Stuart Cosgrove on November 15, 2009 at 11:50am —
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Advocates of Twitter have made some grandiose claims about microblogging. One recurring argument is that it’s a tool for holding power to account. It’s a noble objective but falls far short of those lofty ambitions.
Newspapers and television are achingly clear about their deficiencies. They fle…
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Added by Stuart Cosgrove on November 15, 2009 at 11:07am —
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One of the high hopes for new artists network Central Station was that it would connect and promote great contemporary art and help users discover great stuff on the web. I was really impressed with the…
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Added by Stuart Cosgrove on November 7, 2009 at 7:30pm —
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The Financial Times maxes out on viral-loop media, under the title
Famous for 15 Megabytes.
In an extract from Adam Penneberg's book on viral user-generated content, the FT, describes how viral cl…
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Added by Stuart Cosgrove on November 7, 2009 at 5:30pm —
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Channel 4 wants you to get involved with 3D Week an upcoming week of 3D programming.
Submit your 10-second 3D videos with the theme, number 4, and your clip is in with a chance of appearing on Channel 4 during the week. It's really easy to make a 3D video.
Just follow Ally & Morgan's simple steps in th…
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Added by Stuart Cosgrove on October 26, 2009 at 5:30pm —
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According to a recent study done by mobile ad network Greystripe, there's a relatively new mobile advertising demographic on the street: iPhone moms. Similar to the "soccer moms" demographic, iPhone moms could be a new consumer segment that has vast potential for advertisers…
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Added by Stuart Cosgrove on October 26, 2009 at 5:30pm —
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Channel 4 has signed a content deal with YouTube following six months of negotiations, under which it will make its 4oD catch-up service available via the Google-owned site as well as 3,000 hours of archive content.
C4 CEO Andy Duncan said: “Making our programmes directly accessible to YouTube's…
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Added by Stuart Cosgrove on October 16, 2009 at 9:04am —
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America is getting tough with ad-blogging. The Federal Trade Commission
just released rules to regulate product endorsements not just in advertisements but also on blogs.
38minutes has been a…
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Added by Stuart Cosgrove on October 7, 2009 at 10:09am —
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Anyone whose ever suffered a hangover will know the medicinal benefits of the traditional greasy spoon A data-base dedicated to
greasy spoons across the UK is one of several sites currently caught up in a postcode data saga, which has pitched…
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Added by Stuart Cosgrove on October 6, 2009 at 9:46pm —
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The Tory Party conference and More 4's
controversial When Dave Met Boris have brought that infamous photo of the Bulingdon Club onto the front page again.
I'm intrigued which members of
38min…
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Added by Stuart Cosgrove on October 5, 2009 at 1:15pm —
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The launch of Noel Edmond's Cosmic Ordering app sends shivers down my spine. I can just about cope with the new-age guff that underpins the app, but the thought of a slew of celebrity endorsed applications is up there with 'look-at' me Tweets as the detritus of digital media.
Is there a good…
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Added by Stuart Cosgrove on September 21, 2009 at 10:22am —
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You're a shower of over-rated tossers, your careers are worthless and your petty little digital media projects are doomed to tragic failure. And don't get me started on that old boot that blogs as the
Network Quee…
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Added by Stuart Cosgrove on September 17, 2009 at 10:55am —
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People have died for less. Its amazing that when projects get tense, client deadlines approach or edits are running late the one thing that is guaranteed to tip people into frenzy is typefaces.
As a Verdana man with Calibri tendencies I'm never amazed by the divisions that the creat…
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Added by Stuart Cosgrove on September 16, 2009 at 12:13pm —
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Product placement is just around the corner. DCMS culture secretary Ben Bradshaw is expected to confirm the Government plans to permit product placement on commercial TV during an address to the Royal Television Society on Wednesday. In a statement, ITV said it would “warmly welcome” a rethink on the…
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Added by Stuart Cosgrove on September 14, 2009 at 9:49am —
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The Internet Manifesto is one of the web's most talked-about topics and has variations across Europe. Like the Futurist Manifestos of Marinetti and the Dogme Principles of Lars Von Trier, the 17 declarations set out to
challenge conventional widsom about journalism.
For those who like list…
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Added by Stuart Cosgrove on September 9, 2009 at 7:00pm —
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Political viral video challenge SAGT - Students Against Genocide of Tamils - are planning to produce a series of videos aimed at the British public encouraging them to boycott Sri Lanka. The main targets are the 3 Ts, Textiles, Tourism & Tea.
The search is on for innovative ideas for vid…
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Added by Stuart Cosgrove on September 9, 2009 at 5:27pm —
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According to social graph gurus Gartner micro-blogging has now tipped on their so-called hype-cycle, the quasi-scientific chart that Garner uses to monitor digital media trends.
The chart seems to imply that micro-technologies like Twitter have passed the peak of thei…
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Added by Stuart Cosgrove on September 8, 2009 at 3:34pm —
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Eric Joyce a member of 38 Minutes has resigned. Not from the best social network for digital media, but from the government. For full details of his opposition to the War in Afghanistan see bleow. Eric's personal page on 38 minutes is…
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Added by Stuart Cosgrove on September 4, 2009 at 8:45am —
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From
Broadcast
One of the great conceits of modern media is the disparaging use of the term “the regions”.
It strikes me as bizar…
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Added by Stuart Cosgrove on August 6, 2009 at 9:23am —
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