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Live TV… From Space [Video]
2008-05-26 18:53:00
You may have heard about NASA's successful landing of some newfangled robot on Mars yesterday. But did you see it?
More About: Video , Space , Live

Four Things You Didn’t Know About American Idol
2008-05-26 13:17:00
Just in case you didn't know, American Idol , the biggest show on US television, closed its seventh season last week. Don't ask me who won, I didn't watch it. I did however come across an article about it in a newspaper someone kindly left behind on a train, so here are four facts about American Idol for the person who otherwise couldn't care less. There should really be five, but I couldn't find that many things that are interesting about it.
More About: Things

Why Reporters Without Borders Won?t Shut Up
2008-05-15 19:52:00
A few weeks ago, Amnesty International and the social networking site Blog Catalog announced an initiative designed to promote human rights issues across the blogosphere. Today, May 15, is the day it all kicks off and hopefully thousands will be blogging about what the topic means to them.
More About: Internet , Events , Iraq , Japan , China

If Facebook Was Real Life [Video]
2008-05-06 15:15:00
Remember the times before Facebook ? When those old high-school friends remained unreachable, when all your embarrassing photos were relegated to a dusty album under your bed, and when you only had to lie about your love life to yourself? Ah, those innocent days seem so long ago.
More About: Video , Humour , Life , Real

Murdoch?s Lesson In Chinese Ass-Kissing
2008-05-05 17:51:00
Reviewed in the New York Times, a new book reveals lessons in media learned the hard way by one of the most successful men in the game: Mr. Rupert Murdoch himself. Back in 1993 the billionaire owner of News Corporation arrived in China , like many successful business men do, with dollar signs in his eyes. He had just bought a majority stake in Star TV, a fledgling satellite TV venture, with hopes of doing for Chinese TV what he had done in the UK thanks to Sky. But, to quote an overused cliché, the best laid plans often go awry.
More About: Politics , Books , Kissing

Live Olympics On Your PC ? Thanks, Zattoo!
2008-05-02 02:11:00
The Olympics and the Euro 2008 are just around the corner, and chances are you'll be at work when the action begins. It'll be quite tempting to take a sneeky peek at the events during your coffee breaks, but that's impossible without a TV at the office, right? Not necessarily: enter Zattoo, a new application which streams live TV to your PC.
More About: Internet , Sport , Germany , France

Fresh Froggy Features
2008-05-02 00:34:00
If you are a regular visitor to this blog, you may have noticed that a few new features have been added over the past few days.
More About: Wordpress , News , Features , Fresh , Froggy

Beyond LonelyGirl: Still Searching For A Web TV Smash
2008-04-28 18:18:00
Back in 2006 I wrote a short blog post about Cherub, a then popular internet-only TV series about a vampire with pink bunny slippers. Noting that there had to be more to streaming online entertainment than "YouTube cat-on-rollerskate videos", I mused that the first scripted web TV smash-hit couldn't be far off. Well, two years later -- an eternity by internet standards -- we're still waiting.
More About: Internet , Lonelygirl , Girl , Kate , Modern

It?s Sunday, Why Not Turn Off Your TV?
2008-04-27 19:19:00
This article may seem a little out of place on a blog which spends a good deal of time talking about the old boob tube, but here are 10 good reasons according to Mark Stibich, Ph.D. for turning it off from time to time.
More About: Personal , Humour , Jack Bauer , Sunday , Donald

Afghanistan Loves Soap Operas Too!
2008-04-23 19:46:00
Pop quiz: what's the most popular TV show in Afhanistan? OK, here's a clue: it's not their version of American Idol. Please take a minute before guessing if you have to. Nope? Still no idea?
More About: Bollywood , Religion , India , Afghanistan , Question

George W. Bush?s Gameshow Bonanza: Tonight!
2008-04-21 13:46:00
Sweeping aside trivialities such as sectarian violence in Iraq, a plummeting economy and end-of-term legacy building, George W . Bush is focusing on his true priority: appearing on a prime-time gameshow.
More About: George W Bush , Tonight

Recorded Death On Japanese Radio
2008-04-17 19:17:00
The sound of a man being hanged to death will echo around Japan on May 6th. Nippon Cultural Broadcasting (NCB) has planned the radio broadcast of a death row prisoner's final moments as part of a special show about capital punishment. The recording was made in 1955, but the death penalty remains legal in Japan to this day.
More About: Radio , Iraq , Saddam Hussein , Japanese

Marilyn Monroe Sex Tape: Fact Or Fiction?
2008-04-16 22:41:00
"Yeah, Hollywood siren Marilyn Monroe made a sex tape. No, you'll never get to see it." These are not my words but those of a post in L.A. Now, a blog belonging to the the Los Angeles Times. The article is referring to recent rumours that have been doing the rounds online, according to which Monroe participated in a 16-minute-long home made porn flick when she was an unknown starlet.
More About: News , Mariah Carey , Question , Fiction

Reality TV Kidnapper Busted By Florida Police
2008-04-15 14:57:00
For eight down-and-out young women, it was supposed to be a dream come true. They had been selected to participate in "Pauper To Princess", a rags-to-riches reality show that promised a fairytale $50,000 for its lucky winner. Instead, they found themselves exploited for five weeks and imprisoned in a house against their will.
More About: News , Reality , Police , Florida , Busted

News Flash: Sex On TV Sells!
2008-04-14 18:34:00
It's official: across the world from Sydney to Berlin, TV programmers are putting more and more sex on the air in order to boost ratings. And if you're surprised about that, then Janet Jackson 's nipple taught you nothing. So here's the real novelty: apparently family values and religion also sell!
More About: News , Flash , France , Spain

Do You VooZoo? Uh, No Thanks.
2008-04-11 13:52:00
I'm not against milking a cash-cow for all it's worth, that's just one of the benefits of success. However, milking a cash cow and taking your customer for an idiot-- that's something else entirely. Paramount's latest venture reeks of this.
More About: Second Life

Sarkozy Shows Off His Sexy Dance Moves
2008-04-10 12:15:00
With the MIP TV audiovisual trade fair in Cannes almost over, it’s safe to say that one of the stars of the show this year was a political comedy programme called Headcases, boosted in part by a viral internet video of a dancing Nicolas Sarkozy . For those (myself included) who missed the new comedy which debuted ...
More About: Video , Humour , France , Dance

Introducing? A Few Design Tweaks.
2008-04-09 23:11:00
For those who are familiar with it, it will come as no surprise that the design of this site is powered by the Copyblogger theme for Wordpress . Whilst it is an excellent theme (simple, flexible, uncluttered) I always felt it needed a few design tweaks to suit the tone of my blog.
More About: Design

Jack Bauer Named Gitmo Torture Idol (Vanity Fair)
2008-04-09 12:47:00
Anyone who's switched on a TV in the past seven years knows how hard Jack Bauer is. Women love him. Men want to be him. But here's a fact you may not of known about him.
More About: Vanity Fair , Fair , Vanity

Paris Police Arrest Tibetan Man For Waving His Flag (video)
2008-04-07 19:49:00
It's all about image control-- as the Olympic torch came through Paris today, police were on strict orders to stop anyone interfering with the official coverage of the event. Interestingly, the apparently innocent practice of flag waving was high on their list of nuisances. Not just any type of flag though-- Chinese and Olympic flags were all over the place. However, as this video proves, waving a Tibetan flag was enough to get you arrested.
More About: Video , Politics , Events , China , Arrest

Olympic Torch In Paris: Police Image Control
2008-04-07 16:09:00
Lots of things are being said about the China /Tibet issue in the run-up to the Olympics at the moment. Since the Olympic Torch was in Paris today I decided to try and get in on the action myself-- here's what I witnessed.
More About: News , Politics , Personal , Events

9-Year-Old Banned from Gameshow Because of His Name
2008-04-07 03:39:00
Last February a 9-year-old French kid believed his dream would come true. He had bagged an invite to become a contestant on his favorite gameshow, "In Ze Boîte", filmed before a live studio audience. The day of the shoot, the young boy and his mother turned up at the studio only to be informed that the producers of the show had become uncomfortable about his participation... because of his name.
More About: News , France , Banned , Year

Get Extra Traffic To Your Own Blog!
2008-04-06 15:31:00
Regular visitors, you may have noticed the new Blog Rush widget that appeared in the right-hand sidebar of this site a few days ago. The reason is that I am experimenting ways to get extra visitors to my site and this was one of the things that was recommended to me by other bloggers.
More About: Personal , Internet , Traffic , Extra

Fake News: Better Than The Real Thing?
2008-04-05 17:18:00
I know I have already mentioned the Onion once this week, but I could not resist posting a link to this morning's article in The Guardian paying tribute to it. Hey, it's the weekend!
More About: Video , News , Internet , Humour , Barack Obama

Biased Journalism? Not Always Bad
2008-04-04 17:24:00
Two articles about journalism from opposite sides of the world caught my attention today-- both present an interesting snapshot of the challenges facing international news media today.
More About: News , Politics , China , Journalism , Zimbabwe

Revealed: The Tobacco Industry?s Latest TV Advertising Smokescreen
2008-04-04 00:58:00
At face value it looks like a friendly TV ad, perhaps paid for by some local cancer victims concerned about the efficiency of tobacco regulation. The reality is much sterner: the people behind it are actually Reynolds Tobacco -- pushers of brands such as Camel, which as recently as last year was sued for overtly advertising to children.
More About: News , Politics , Industry , Advertising

Is TV The Key To Happiness?
2008-04-02 20:40:00
It may be difficult to fathom when pondering the idiocy of that Skating-With-Celebrities-On-Rehab re-run you just watched, but what if TV was actually making your life better? Believe it or not, that's what is being insinuated in a recent international Gallup study.
More About: News , Big Brother , Happiness , Statistics

April Fool?s Day - Google?s Perfect Prank
2008-04-01 15:21:00
If you went onto Google today (let's face it, if you're here then you probably did), then you may have noticed a little something new: a discreet sentence below the search box linking to an earth-shattering announcement. Happy April Fool's Day everyone!
More About: Internet , Humour , Prank

Previously on? [insert favorite TV show here]
2008-03-30 15:00:00
Ever found yourself imitating that guy who says "Previously on Heroes/Prison Break/American Idol/etc."? Hey, haven't we all.
More About: Show , The Onion , Favorite

Will Obama Win? Spoilers From ?The West Wing?
2008-03-29 18:14:00
Barack Obama may seem like a newcomer to the US political scene, but it turns out we've known him for ages through his part in The West Wing ! Who knew! Confused? OK, let me explain...
More About: Video , Politics , Barack Obama , The West Wing