Year: 2003

  • Wonks on the BBC’s future

    Policy wonks (what is a wonk exactly?) Damian Tambini and Jamie Cowling survey the increasingly obstacle-strewn path to charter renewal for the BBC in FT Creative Business (you’ll need to…

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  • Digital radio’s revenge

    Top media analyst Mathew Horsman says Cinderella media technology DAB may yet thrive but it could do so at the cost of the 3G operators. You need to subscribe to…

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  • cloning

    With all the fuss about human cloning, I was pretty sure I’d find a good selection of books of essays on the topic. I could only find one: this post-Dolly…

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  • London’s economic strength

    The Statesman last week has a pullout transcript of a round table discussion on the topic of ‘London’s economic strength’. There’s a PDF version here. The participants include Ed Balls,…

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  • And on… and on… A plug

    When he was UK MD of Ariston, Giuliano Gnagnati brought you those mesmerising TV ads (“Ariston… and on… and on…”). Ariston was an obscure Italian brand ? sales and brand…

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  • Country Code rebellion

    Thanks to Kevin Werbach for linking to this excellent piece from The Register about this week’s meeting of the obscure group of organisations who look after the national top level…

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  • War analysed

    Always excellent David Walker opens the new series of BBC Radio 4’s Analysis with a subtle look at our definition of the national interest in the context of the planned…

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  • Oh God, I’m a moonie

    Dave Green has got my number. He’s written a well-timed (but quite gentle) debunking of our collective blogging obsession and succeeded in making me feel distinctly uncomfortable about my twice-a-day…

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  • Toyota triumphs

    I learn from the FT’s latest survey on the motor industry (which requires a subscription) that, in the midst of the longest recession of the modern era in its home…

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  • Barry Cox on broadcast

    The third and fourth of Barry Cox’s lectures on the future of broadcasting, as reprinted by The Guardian. The third concerns the failure of competition in digital TV in the…

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