Tweets this Week – 2009-06-28

Karl | Tweets | Sunday, June 28th, 2009
  • Paolo Nuttini seems to be this year’s James Blunt. And, yes, that might be rhyming slang. #glastonbury #
  • Just thought Lisa Hannigan was singing a song called “I am Gay”. Which would have been fine, obviously. #glastonbury #
  • I love music in the obsessive, alphabetised vinyl collection sense. But I simply do not get the appeal of Bruce Springsteen. #glastonbury #
  • The most shocking thing about the new YouTube design? Lisa Nova is still making videos. http://bit.ly/21iOP #
  • Superb piece by Mark Lawson Internet influenced media acceleration with Jacko as the key example: http://bit.ly/OC4iG #
  • New social media followers? If you have tips (branding, metrics) send ‘em to khodge (at) spodgod.com for forthcoming magazine feature. #
  • See? Links to prove it and everything. That Derren Brown’s got nowt on me: http://bit.ly/16XO4Y #
  • Last night, I couldn’t get on Twitter or LiveJournal , bbc.co.uk was flaky and Google inaccessible. The sky is falling! I predicted this … #
  • Getting social media tips from “experts”. Gems include “Facebook is popular among the young” and “social media is great if used correctly”. #
  • News just in: Michael Jackson still dead. #
  • Sad to hear about Michael Jackson. I loved his wine reviews and that book he wrote about home brew. #
  • The evolution of Photoshop – from 1988 to 2009 – in pictures. And, yep, I’ve used every single one. http://bit.ly/B1X8f #
  • Don’t usually do this, but sad to see Sky Saxon of the Seeds pass on: http://bit.ly/p7fVR #
  • Source for that Tiscali story: http://bit.ly/ZDuyw (via DigitalSpy) #
  • Tiscali repeats call for the BBC to pay for content distribution. #
  • I just know this is a bad idea… Looking for social media experts for a feature. Contact khodge (at) spodgod.com if you fit the bill. #
  • Battlestar Galacatica: The Plan. A sort of post-modern Back to the Future II – http://bit.ly/NKFlG #
  • Oh my God. I accidentally grew a beard. #

Tweets this Week – 2009-06-21

Karl | Tweets | Sunday, June 21st, 2009
  • Day two of great office blitz, accompanied by the Durutti Column courtesy of #spotify – http://bit.ly/NP7Qg #
  • Backing up and wiping Zip discs. What year is it again? #
  • At last! New Tweetdeck has ability to filter out keyword content from any column. Very chuffed. #
  • RT @techradar: Exclusive: O2 will disconnect ‘free’ iPhone tetherers http://www.techradar.com/609253 #
  • Anyone use Carphone Warehouse for their phone contract? Anyone been charged *after* contract was “canceled”? Contact me or @counterintel #
  • Anyone have any experience with Sky TV/BB door-to-door salespeople? Just had an odd run-in with one who didn’t want to leave my parent’s. #
  • Night Jack blog, banned and blacklisted, still lingers in Google cache http://bit.ly/RHRml #
  • Confirmed max penalty for piracy: “statutory maxima of £50,000 for all IP offences (…) this option will be adopted”. #digitalbritain p117 #
  • RT @LXNen: £50,000 fine and jail time for sharing a file! page 117 of the #digitalbritain report… #
  • Ofcom to police digital piracy – so digital pirates are pretty safe, really. #digitalbritain #
  • RT @ruskin147: PM Brown says Britain will “lead the world” in broadband tech after #digitalbritain. Eyebrows may be raised in South Korea. #
  • Peter Andre and Jordan sign separate deals for new post-breakup reality shows. “That’s interesting news,” says @ruthellenbrown, “for mongs”. #

Tweets this Week – 2009-06-14

Karl | Tweets | Sunday, June 14th, 2009
  • http://twitpic.com/7de22 – Is it just me or does Noel Gallagher look like he’s wearing prosthetic age make-up? #
  • Every now and then, I like to post a link to the rejected mini-pilot of Buffy the Animated Series.That’s the way I roll. http://bit.ly/4fqYf #
  • Banksy – conceptual art for thick people: http://bit.ly/nqYIr #
  • In your face other Karl Hodges. BTW, though Facebook suggests you place a dot between first and last name – it ignores it when you type URL #
  • My GF @ruthellenbrown would have won £9572.86 on 1st December 2007 – if she’d played the National Lottery: http://idefex.net/b3talottery/ #
  • Via @PCAdvisor “Morro will work by routing all of a user’s internet traffic to a Microsoft data centre”. Won’t be binning AVG just yet then #
  • Dear 3 Monkeys PR. I am all out of Hobnobs. #
  • Indie headline: “Rivals fail to back BT”. Article content: “rivals tacitly back BT”. Hmm… http://bit.ly/tDu9A #
  • BT’s doubling broadband speeds for free. My Orange connection is ADSL2+ ready. Wonder if they’ll follow suit… #
  • Via @thinkbroadband: Great tech reporting by FT on BBC iPlayer throttling, with BT’s response http://tinyurl.com/mhmrfr #
  • Anyone have an HP email contact at Burson-Marsteller? #
  • BT (and others) warn the BBC that they’ll have to throttle iPlayer traffic – in 2007: http://bit.ly/nip1f #
  • RT @arstechnica: Apple dashes hopes for ZFS support in Snow Leopard – http://arst.ch/35b #
  • BT joins Tiscali, BSkyB, TalkTalk in open criticism of iPlayer. Says BBC “can’t expect to continue to get a free ride.” (via @ruskin147) #
  • RT @pdouglas: kudos to @o2 for taking the time to explain their position today amid the iPhone storm http://www.techradar.com/607116 #
  • I’m wondering whether it’s my mentions of “iPhone” or “HTC Touch” that has attracted a bevy of smart phone promoting new followers #
  • RT @Rungsberry: If you want a new iPhone, you’re just going to have to pay for it – this ‘paying for stuff’ thing is not a new concept #
  • Blog comment on iPhone “The simple option is to get the PAYG version and swap the sims between the old 3G and the new 3GS”. So there. #
  • Me? HTC Diamond on Orange. 24 month contract, unlimited broadband. Modem use barred. Can’t upgrade to new Touch until 2010. Sound familiar? #
  • O2′s “mistake” has been to treat the iPhone like any other phone. Sub for mobile broadband, contractual ties = industry standard. #
  • A “business as usual” keynote from Apple at #wwdc. Product range is faster, stronger and – in some cases – cheaper. But, nothing really new. #
  • RT @RosieHattersley: Hmm, one for serious runners only, the Garmin 405 GPS watch: http://bit.ly/4run405 (also useful for agoraphobics) #
  • Rumoured upgrade price for Win 7 is $49.99 (Home) 99.99 (Pro). Snow Leopard to ship at 29.99. With MacBook price cuts, Macs are cheap! #wwdc #
  • Snow Leopard section over – onto the iPhone. Until a friendly PR company can comp me one my response to this is officially “meh”. #WWDC #
  • Confirmed – upgrade from Leopard to Snow Leopard for $29. #wwdc #
  • So far, nothing about Snow Leopard has been revealed that we didn’t already know from developer leaks. #wwdc #
  • RT @arswwdc: A PR was just sent out from Apple that says Snow Leopard will be available in September for $29. #
  • OS X coverage next – this is what I’m hanging in for! #wwdc #
  • Looking forward to confirmation of Snow Leopard features at WWDC – and wondering what juicy bits have been held back. #
  • RT @jonronson: Why are we more worried about a freak but prob transitory BNP victory than a vast Tory landslide thats about to consume us? #
  • Some southern tweeters are characterising the north as some kind of BNP stronghold. Ironic as divisionist revisionism is BNP policy. #bnp #
  • RT @GeorgeHopkin: Ridley Scott to re-imagine Blade Runner for the web http://tinyurl.com/ml7je9 [Wired] #
  • RT @MakeVotesCount: Greens needed only 15,683 more votes to have come above BNP in Yorkshire and Humber and get that final seat instead. #
  • “Blonde or brunette? Who is Sir Alan’s new Apprentice” – No, not The Sun. BBC News Online’s front page… #
  • Listening to The Smiths 1st album. Astoundingly fresh, live and immediate, free of gloss at a time when sampling and syndrums ruled. #

Tweets this Week – 2009-06-07

Karl | Tweets | Sunday, June 7th, 2009
  • RT @RuthEllenBrown: Just created a profile on tumblr and made an image blog: http://ruthellenbrown.tumblr.com/ <- My other half. #
  • Danger of interviewing D-Day veterans live: rambling anecdotes that don’t have a point – and aren’t about D-Day. #
  • Dimbleby’s cut glass accent makes the phrase “monitoring the counts” sound coarsely accurate. #
  • SpeedSell buys old Macs “conveniently and risk free”. Valued a 12″ G3 iBook at £12.75. I got £160 for one on eBay. Worth the risk, I say. #
  • Review software doesn’t work. Only 2 out 6 printers for round-up have arrived. Brain fogged by Piriton. Wrong week to give up caffeine. #
  • RT @garymarshall: From @techradar – In a band? Now you can upload tracks to Spotify! http://techradar.com/605663 (And iTunes!) #
  • Stumbled across a brilliantly bad album of TV theme covers on #spotify. Check out “How Soon is Now” http://bit.ly/rATQR #
  • First time I haven’t voted Labour. It feels like a betrayal – on both sides. #
  • PR tip #2: Explain how the service works. I shouldn’t need to schedule an interview with a company MD to find out. #
  • PR tip #1: if you want coverage for a product launch make sure there’s a story beyond “we’re launching a new product”. #
  • Reviews say that Dollhouse gets good at episode 6. Watched 6 last & they’re right. Pity you have to wade through a vat of crap to get there. #
  • WHO to declare #swineflu pandemic within “next 10 days”, but with new severity rating to prevent panic: http://bit.ly/2qt7Ow #
  • “When he was birthed, Jackal Lowled had a nubbin on his giant foot (don’t print that bit)”. I feel compelled to finish it now. #
  • Last night I dreamed that Sam Fox had written a novel called “Jackal Lowled”. And I remember the first line too. It was: (see next tweet) #
  • Good analysis of Adobe price hike by @charlesarthur (URL corrected) http://bit.ly/14QNxV #
  • via @charlesarthur: Adobe widens the price gap: http://bit.ly/eHfkM #
  • Dug out my old iPaq. Plan to turn it into a portable multi-track music system. Currently playing with PhoenixStudio 1.1. http://bit.ly/mi15B #
  • Having birthday carrot cake to myself because my other half can’t have wheat or dairy. I am, of course, gutted by this. OM NOM NOM! #
  • RT @MusicRadar: #woofwednesday i wanna be your dog, whistle test, 1979, what are you waiting for? http://bit.ly/LRdFe (Iggy FTW!) #
  • Reclusive author JD Salinger (who must now be 90 years old) sues over Catcher in the Rye “sequel”: http://bit.ly/YEmX7 #
  • RT @techradar: Wii Motion Plus is announced…err again. Just like last year. (Project Natal is worrying folks. Folks called “Nintendo”). #
  • BBC reports that ISPs throttle traffic. In other news, Berlin wall tumbles, Mandela released from prison and first man walks on moon. #
  • Natal? *cough* http://www.camspace.com/ #
  • The Men Who Stare at Hall and Oates #bookpopstarcrossover #
  • Happy hardcore is laudable on paper; music with positivity as its reason for being. In practice, I’d rather pour boiling lead into my ears. #
  • CS4 Design Premium U.S. price = $1799. UK price = £1436.35. Add 10% = £1579.98. UK/US price difference = £481.63. #
  • Adobe 10% price rise ain’t good. Eg: converting $ to £, CS4 Design Premium is *already* £200 more in UK before VAT. £338 more with VAT. #
  • The Rise and Fall of Attik via @CreativeReview http://bit.ly/gVs48 – this is the kind of stuff I wanted to see in Wired UK… #
  • Today’s epic discovery: comedy albums on #Spotify. Python, Denis Leary and Derek & Clive! There goes the rest of the day… #
  • Just saw “typo” spelled “type-o”. Irony feedback loop, ENGAGE. #