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Jamaican Gang Culture And South African Drug Culture – Unreported World

Oct 17, 2007

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in observation, Post-university life, reviews

Reading Time: 2 minutesAs I write this I am happy that I have been to watch quite a few interesting documentaries at the Frontline Club. The two most recent were made for Channel 4’s Unreported World. This is channel four’s “acclaimed foreign affairs series” and covers a number of topics. The two documentaries I watched…

Why Audiovisual Content That’s Not On-Demand is Dead to Me

Oct 14, 2007

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in observation, Post-university life, tech related

Reading Time: 2 minutesI’m online from 10-15hrs a day on average and as a result I’m used to having everything available within a short amount of time. I also had access to a PVR with a hard disk upgrade for quite a long time. As a result of both these developments anything that is not…

CCTV, Two Exhibits, one town crier and of course John Bull

Oct 10, 2007

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in London, observation

Reading Time: < 1 minuteEngland is a CCTV nation with more cameras per capita than any other nation. As a result there is great interest from people like Christian of documentally.com and Our Man Inside and John Perivolaris. Both of them are working on CCTV related pieces. At Parliament Square Christian demonstrated his great ability…

Hit the ground running (waking up in Web 2.0)

Oct 5, 2007

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in ipod touch, observation, tech related

Reading Time: 2 minutesThere was a time when you would wake up and it’s only half an hour later that the world around you would be clearly visible. In today’s web 2.0 world you wake up and twenty other people are wishing each other good morning. Many are celebrating that it’ Friday and others have…

On television accuracy within this “New Media” landscape

Sep 26, 2007

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in observation, Post-university life, tech related

Reading Time: 4 minutesSince I had some free time I went over to the Old Theatre of the London school of economics and what we found out from that conversation is that people don’t trust television. According to one of the chairs this was at a ratio of 4:3. This is an interesting situation since…

John Fisher Burns at the frontline Club

Sep 19, 2007

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in London, observation

Reading Time: < 1 minuteA few days ago I went to listen to John Fisher Burns, longest serving Western Journalist in Iraq at the frontline club in London. The talk was both informative and interesting. I enjoyed being surrounded by people who knew from personal experience what the situation is in that country. if you’d…

Why a 20% drop is not necessarily a bad thing for myspace

Sep 12, 2007

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in observation, Post-university life, tech related

Reading Time: < 1 minuteAccording to recent articles myspace is losing user share in relation Facebook but this is not necessarily a bad thing. When you think of facebook you know that it’s a glorified phonebook therefore everyone “needs” to use it to remain in the loop. In contrast Myspace is a specialised music sharing…

After two months as a camera operator in the UN General Assembly hall in Geneva…

Sep 11, 2007

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in observation, travel, video archive

Reading Time: 3 minutesA tall slender woman was sitting on a chair by the podium where her husband was delivering a presentation to a hall filled with people. Each group of four people had a white board in front and on this board was the name of the deleguation. Canada, USA, France, Lithuania and more.…

The podcasting demographic

Sep 3, 2007

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in observation, PodcampUK, Post-university life, tech related

Reading Time: 4 minutesWhilst listening to a conversation between several podcasters in their debriefing they were asking the question of how to involve a different demographic in the process of podcasting. This is an interesting question. As one participant pointed out the demographic seems to be for white males over 30 years of age to…

PodcampUK – Part 1 of the debrief

Sep 3, 2007

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in observation, PodcampUK, Post-university life, social networking, travel, Uncategorized

Reading Time: 3 minutesThere are many podcamps but Podcampuk was my podcamp. This was an event which was similar to just one previous experience. It was an event where everyone you talked to had at least one website and others may have had several. They also used twitter and prepared radio programs. What is great…

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