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Posts from the ‘Media’ Category

14
Aug
bitly

BBC and Bit.ly create bbc.in

What do you get when you take one of the worlds greatest content creators and mix it up with best url shortener?

You get bbc.in that’s what – If you head over to Bit.ly, or even through Twitter herself (got to be a women with all that gossip and bieber love in the trending topics) you’ll get something other than a bit.ly/[id] as the shortened url. Read moreRead more

12
Aug
grassyroots

Covering an eco music festival

As well as my personal blog at Up Your Ego I also write a blog about Jersey Life for the BBC.

When there is a cross over I’ll share those posts on here. Read moreRead more

13
Jul
androidsm

Making Android a useful life tool

I’ve been using Android for about three months now after getting my HTC Tattoo and for the first two and a half months it basically involved trying to make it do what I want.

It isn’t the greatest mobile phone in the world but it is small and has all the functionality I need from a phone. Read moreRead more

21
Jun
clarksonmercury2

Queen and Top Gear in weird merged moment

On the run up to a new series of Top Gear the more hardcore fans loitering on the Final Gear forums start to get a little bit strange, suffering from withdrawal and desperation.

OK we’re not THAT bad, we do know it’s only a TV show but there are also only so many times you can watch the same shows over and over and over again. Read moreRead more

18
Jun
seesaw

SeeSaw gets premium comedy shows

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of SeeSaw. All opinions are 100% mine. I would not take a sponsorship opportunity unless I genuinely believe in the product and have written about it before without sponsorship.

Where can you find South Park, Only Fools and Horses, The IT Crowd, The Thick of It, Summer Heights High, Man To Man, Lab Rats and many more great comedies all in one place? Read moreRead more

18
Jun
topgear

Is embarrassing parents TG video viral?

Not long ago in my first Top Gear series 15 preview post I included a video of some very embarrassing parents shouting about Top Gear as they passed the presenter in their car on the motorway.

The Top Gear presenters were driving cars turned into caravans – something we’ll see in the new series – starting June 27th. Read moreRead more

17
Jun
phone

No more music on my iPod thanks to Spotify

I’ve had ‘the middle’ iPod in one form or another since the first iPod Mini was released in 2004.

And ever since, from the very beginning of my iPod ownership life, music and speech have been fighting for dominance of the limited space. Read moreRead more

14
Jun
topgear

Top Gear set for Sunday 27 June return

It’s that time of year again, the time when everyone at work gets completely bored with me and when I spend every Sunday evening talking about TV on a message board.

It’s been officially announced by Top Gear Magazine and the BBC Press Office that everyone’s favourite entertainment show with an affiliation to motoring will return on Sunday 27 June at 8pm. Read moreRead more

14
Jun
glasto

New look Glasto site makes use of 6music names

Every year  the BBC relaunches its website for one of the major festivals it covers or, in the case of the Big Weekend – hosts.

The latest site to get this treatment is the Glastonbury festival, normally I wouldn’t blog about this but, unlike the others there are a number of things of note. Read moreRead more