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Will OnLive be the decider in Sky TV v Virgin media content battles?
According to this story at the always excellent Kotaku, OnLive is a facility that lets any machine (more or less) play the latest games. The trick here is that our broadband connection does all the work – cloud computer gaming. Now, imagine such a device squeezed into your Sky or Virgin set-top box. As the
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Full thoughts on Battlestar Galactica finale: nice ideas, terrible finish
The more I think about the end of Battlestar Galactica, the more I have to applaud Ron Moore and his team for providing an ending, but the more I really want to slap them as well. Rarely has a finale tried so hard to hit all the emotional beats for characters but fail so dismally
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Memo to Polly Toynbee: insulting the customers doesn’t work
Last thought on the Polly Toynbee/Guardian piece: At the end of it she says: In the end, it’s up to you. If you always read this on the web, go out and buy a copy, skinflint. Use it or lose it. How about this? Create the compelling content and people will come to you instead
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Polly Toynbee on saving the media: turn back the clock, ask for government help
Polly Toynbee has written a piece over at The Guardian on how the death of local papers is a national emergency. It’s a decent piece going over some familiar ground but there’s a few flaws which I’ll address with Polly’s points in bold. This jackal financial crisis picks off the weakest, so it’s no surprise
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Battlestar Galactica finale: Lee Adama needs slapped, Galen’s my dad and why the show will make you an athiest
This is just a quick one as the end of Battlestar deserves a proper review, but let’s look at two points after the jump (very obvious spoilers coming up, so don’t click/read on unless prepared for them):
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A look at the newspaper/media of 2028 (from 1998) by Pat Kane
Pat Kane is one of those guys who is never dull. In true Scottish style he often gets the mick ripped out of him for having the temerity to be passionate about more than one field (it’s a deviation on ‘I kent his faither‘). Anyway, you can agree with him/disagree with him, but he’s normally