Skin of Stars

Machines, Media and Miscellanea

by Kevin Carmody

Blog Entries in the category Media

BBC iPlayer

In a follow-up to my previous post regarding the incompatibility of the new BBC iPlayer I recently found an interview on backstage.bbc in which the developers of the iPlayer and representatives from the Open Source Consotium and the Open Rights Group discuss this very topic. It would seem that the general consensus is that release of the iPlayer to be … Read the remaining 99 words

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Why Facebook has Jumped The Shark

Today Eastcliff Richard and I became ‘friends’. I think this is a familiar expression in the world of social networking. In this instance it was on probably the most highly publicised site of recent months, Facebook. This has got me thinking a little more about a site which I once thought was pretty neat but I now avoid like Margate! … Read the remaining 421 words

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Peter and the Nude

It would seem that Peter Checksfield has made a real impact on the local press and people after a skim through Thanets raciest paper, the TT. Now it would seem to me that people do get the most worked up over a bit of nudity

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Thats my name!!!

I seem to be involved in a bizarre case of identity theft. This is not the usual credit card scam though, oh no. I seem to have been dragged into the seedy underworld of Margaret Withers art. Yikes, I may have even been copyrighted! Oh the humanity!

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The unicorn gadget

There are some dreamed of gadgets that hold a mythical status. The king of these unicorns of the gadget world has been the much dreamed of iPhone. Everyone knew exactly what it was to be called were this ever to be made, the rumour of the iPhone has been bouncing round for few years now but Apple chief, Steve Jobs, … Read the remaining 254 words

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Thanet Times does it again

Sorry, i know our local papers have the general difficulty of being able to tell their arse from their elbows, but this really is taking the biscuit! Just a couple of weeks ago they were praising a trader in Arlington shopping arcade in Margate for recruiting a group of graffiti artists to produce some quality work on the boarded up … Read the remaining 56 words

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