Excellent work by Sacha Baron Cohen promoting his new film – Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. Foolishly Kazakhstan has started a marketing campaign to persuade people that their fair nation isn’t as backward as depicted by Sacha in his new film and they’ve also attacked him for making [...]

So, the post below talks about how NBC ‘gets’ YouTube and that other media companies should work a little harder. Well congratulations to the BBC for creating probably the worst executed attempt to ‘get down with the kids’ when they ask what they think about YouTube. As one of the commenters says “It’s for the [...]

Big Media’s been pretty awful at ‘getting’ new ways to distribute content. They generally don’t understand that it’s a privilege to have people upload your content or remix it. So, it’s nice to see NBC understanding what video-sharing site YouTube’s all about and what its users are like. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfNoQkoytvU

Interesting news that UKRD have handed back an FM licence. Interesting because it’s the first time it’s ever happened. UKRD are abandoning the people of Stroud, not i’m sure out of malice, but because of the sound business reason that it’s never made any money in eight years. They recently proposed to the regulator, Ofcom, [...]

I love sites on the internet that intersect the real and virtual worlds. The most well-known examples are mapping sites like Google Maps, but i’ve just seen a great site in the states. It locates postboxes by zip code. A simple idea, brilliantly executed and more annoying because I don’t know where my nearest post [...]

I always loved Chris Evans. I remember watching the first week of the Big Breakfast and it completely changing my world. I thought it was brilliant, different, new. TV that was for me. Maybe I felt a ginger-like connection with the host? I don’t know. He remained a favourite for ages, through the outstanding Don’t [...]

Today I went to an Ofcom presentation where they talked about their impending Market Impact Assesment. The BBC were there too (both Executive and Trust sides) where they presented a few details about the BBC iPlayer – main thing I noted down was that they’ve stolen Odeo‘s colour for their logo. However, there was a [...]

They do it slightly differently in the states… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvOB4I9fyUY