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An exquisite justification
No earth shattering revelations in John Cleese’s talk from the 2009 Creativity World Forum flagged up Open Culture today. Instead, a timely if often forgotten fact which most creatives know to their cost: .. what I’m saying is that if you get into the right mood, then your mode of thinking will become much more […]
Posted in: UK
ITV Daybreak: Tough Questions
September 6, 2010
ITV Daybreak’s first transmission kicked off alright today – what I saw of it. The set had more than a sniff of BBC Breakfast and The One Show combined but still managed to look simple and effective. The weather segment was especially good. On-screen graphics were low-key, professional and laid back all at the same […]
Posted in: TV
Buzz … it had nothing to do with me
September 1, 2010
Lovely to see the BBC’s new social media curation service up and running today. There’s more information on how it works, why it’s been developed and how to get your blog included in the results for an individual piece of BBC output here, little point in me regurgiating it. In short, if you’re a blogger […]
Posted in: Internet
Working on the Graham Norton Show
August 31, 2010
Learning that Graham Norton has got his deserved Friday night slot with his chat vehicle The Graham Norton Show, reminded me of the time I spent working on the programme when it started on BBC Two in February / March 2007. It was a challenging experience. And one, predictably, I documented at the time.
Posted in: TV
Are these your glasses?
August 29, 2010
These glasses prompted an argument between me and my Significant Other. I’d wanted to pick them up late afternoon before I went off to see the Regents Park production of Into the Woods. He was less keen on that proposition, saying that we all should all go together to the show in the car and […]
Posted in: Audio & Music, Internet
Twitter Primer
August 28, 2010
A few handy tips for getting ahead with (and for offsetting any corporate nonsense about) Twitter. Use TweetDeck It will seem overwhelming to begin with but stick with it. Be sure to use it for live events – or popular stuff broadcast on TV or radio. Assign a column based on a search criteria for […]
Posted in: Internet
Mark Thompson MacTaggart Lecture
August 28, 2010
Nice to see Mark Thompson using the phrase “sick bastards” in the introduction to his MacTaggart lecture at this year’s Media Festival shindig up in Edinburgh. Fighting talk. Good stuff. Aside from the nice shock opening guaranteed to command attention right from the start, here are some of the highlights now that I’ve clawed my […]
Posted in: TV
TV: Great British Bake-Off \ BBC Two
August 21, 2010
Nice work from Love Productions for the BBC in the Great British Bake-Off. Presenters Mel and Sue don’t so much dominate the competition to find the UK’s greatest baker, rather they just glue the bits together into one entire slab of gorgeousness which also happens to include the master cake-baker my mother always swore by […]
Posted in: TV
Thoroughly Good::BBC 
September 24, 2010
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