Archive for May, 2007
Nutters
Thursday, May 31st, 2007Two completely different experiments to change the world have grabbed my attention today. The first, by Jeff Pulver to broadcast on BlogTV, while he was driving his car, struck me as pure American eccentricity. We English are presumed to be the kings of quirky behaviour, but we just banned the use of mobile phones whilst […]
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The politics of broadband
Tuesday, May 29th, 2007“Winning ugly” is an expression commonly used in sport. How you play is less important than the results you achieve - at least when the stakes are high and competition intense. But, when participants put their results ahead of their principles, something of the beautiful game dies.
Ah, the beautiful game! The golden glow of ideology […]
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Joost about on track
Friday, May 25th, 2007Joost is a hot topic. It deserves to be. There are many things about the service that aren’t quite right, but underlying it all are three key ingredients for success: big-name backing, excellent PR and efficient, adaptable technology.
Of course they have issues. The project has spent less than a year in the public eye and […]
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Mesh or Mess?
Thursday, May 24th, 2007I entered the Olympia exhibition hall yesterday and saw coffee shops. “That’s about right”, I thought, “after all this is The Wireless Event”.Not to be confused with Mobile, Wireless has long been associated with the ability to get your laptop out at Starbucks. It’s a European-cool way of working whilst being seen, packaged by American […]
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£2.5bn or FTTH?
Thursday, May 17th, 2007Keith McMahon’s excellent piece this morning, challenging BT’s decision to return £2.5bn to shareholders offers a detailed view of how the deployment of FTTH could be made to work commercially in the UK. It’s enough to make you ask, why not?
Without any inside knowledge of BTs decision making process, I’m guessing, but I suggest that […]
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That precious hour
Wednesday, May 16th, 2007Ten days ago, quite unexpectedly, my wife had a baby. Of course, I knew she was pregnant, but the little guy wasn’t due until the end of May so we weren’t ready - I’d managed to paint the ceiling of his room, but not the walls. He didn’t have anywhere to sleep or any clean […]
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Feedburner: lessons learned
Friday, May 4th, 2007“Life is a voyage of discovery” - Arnold Toynbee (apparently)
Frankly, I would rather today had been less of a voyage and more of a cruise, but having cast off from my safe harbour this morning and fought through the stormy waters of web site analytics, I thought I would share my discovery with you.
My aim […]
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Beyond the headlines
Thursday, May 3rd, 2007My £2.10 headline cost for 2 hours of HD TV is a simplification - call it an exec summary if you will. It ignores the key dynamic in telecoms: scale.
£2.10 irons out the granularity to come up with something that makes a point rather than painting the whole picture. A number of people have questioned […]
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