Back in August I took the blog on a bit of a road trip when I went to London for a week, well I’m at it again, and while I’m not sure how much I’ll be able to capture, hopefully I’ll be able to get something.
I leave tomorrow for Washington D.C., before heading to Dublin, Bahrain and Singapore. I get back home on the 17th when hopefully normally blogging will resume.
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This weeks lesson: graphics
if you really want to engage with a complex concept in depth, what you want is a stamp
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The Chaser’s War on Everything did their second Famous Face Off this week, and in my home town of all places. The first one was Morecroft vs Tynan in an autocue read-off, this week though its National’s Senator Barnaby Joyce vs Family First Senator Steve Fielding in a soccer block-off on issues of gay marriage, tax cuts and the sale of Telstra.
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Hat tipping and swearing… the AWB? Nup, the South Sydney Rabbitohs
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In an effort to post some actual idents I thought I’d introduce this semi-regular column.. Better Know a Foxtel Channel (aka Foxtel Friday). So without further ado, Part 1 in this 63 part series…
First channel off the ranks is the networks flagship channel, FOX8 (the fightin’ eighth). FOX8 rebranded itself recently and continues to be the highest rated channel on Foxtel, thanks no doubt to The Simpsons.
Wikipedia also notes that it is “one of the very few channels to have been continuously broadcast since Foxtel’s foundation 10 years ago.”
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The Nine Network and BBC coverage of the Commonwealth Games. I think I like the BBC music better.
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When it comes to the extra channels available on digital TV, ABC2 is pretty the extent of it for me. But, SBS do offer their World News Channel, and it’s a pretty awesome resource of international news broadcasts, and although its not much use to english-only speaking me, I’d imagine it would be pretty sweet for people looking for news broadcasts in their prefered language.
Triple J’s Hack current affairs program did a story this week about how Australian’s are now the biggest downloaders of TV in the world. And who can blame us?
With Ten, Nine and Seven too busy protecting their ad revenue to offer downloads I think ABC has the perfect opportunity to step up and offer video downloads. I wouldn’t mind them charging us for it through iTunes, or just video podcasting them for free. Either way, to get the ball rolling.. last nights entire episode of The Chaser’s War on Everything.
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Chris Taylor and the Chaser team take the idea behind that shitty Moove milk ad and try to get some girl’s phone numbers.
Very funny, and very well done.
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Sick of all the promos for ‘Everybody Hates Chris’ on Ten, Chris Taylor heads to the networks offices, suggesting a change of name.