Jul
5
Rediscovered track of the month: Jul ‘09
July 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment
I had thriller and loved it but never followed up with any of the later releases.
Jul
2
BBC World Service wins again
July 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment
BBC World Service won the award for best radio feature at tonight’s Diageo Africa Business Reporting Awards in London. There was good competition not least from The World Tonight’s Paul Moss, the BBC’s own Will Ross and even Capital FM.
Jun
29
Twitter — how do you rate?
June 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment
According to Twitter’s Evan Weaver the average user has 126 followers: Since, on average, each user has 126 followers, it means there are 126 messages placed in the queue for each tweet. Beside that, there are times when the traffic peaks, as it was during Obama’s inauguration when it reached 300 tweets/second or >35,000 messages […]
Jun
18
Treasure Trove
June 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Today the British Library launch an online digital archive of 2 million pages of newspapers from the 19th century. That’s a tiny fraction of the 750 million pages they have from that golden era of newspapers. It’s well worth the £6.99 daily access fee: http://newspapers.bl.uk/blcs/ Here’s two snippets of miscellany I found from a casual […]
Jun
18
Deerhunter, Rainwater Cassette Exchange
June 18, 2009 | 1 Comment
Like singer Bradford Cox this EP from Atlanta’s Deerhunter is a frail, androgynous thing. Occasionally striking but more often than not falling down on the listless side of insipid. Fans of the band will of course know that never straying above second gear is Deerhunter’s thing.
Jun
16
Iran’s army of mutts
June 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment
I’ve just spent a day monitoring Twitter.com’s #iranelection feed.
Jun
6
Rediscovered track of the month: Jun ’09
June 6, 2009 | 2 Comments
Mark Morrison’s Return of the Mack
Jun
5
MeltBrown…
June 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment
 It’s days like these that make quitting the world of Linux and non-pre-emptive NOS’ for the world of media so much fun . . .