Links from Friends

People send me links and I really appreciate it. Here are a few I received yesterday:

The first electronic cinema in Great Britain is in a tiny village in Kent. The sound and picture quality are described as "superb" and the ambiance is very civilised. Thanks Nick.

Cilla and Lucy are playing the Blag Club tomorrow night - here's a crazy link from Cilla that has nothing to do with their beautiful, rock out type of music.

The BBC is running a book award and the prize is £30,000. When you think the total income from the license fee is about £3 billion, thirty grand is nothing, but it's another example of the BBC spending money in areas it doesn't have to - there are a fair number of book awards already, in the UK and then internationally that include UK authors in their shortlist.

Campaign Magazine is the trade magazine for the UK advertising industry. This week there's an article about "the BBC's first branding campaign in nine years". The endline is "This is what we do" but I don't see anything about book awards, or magazines, or educational software, or competing with commercial digital channels. I'm sure they haven't left those brand supporting activities out though. I'm sure they didn't spend typical television commercial production budgets of half a million dollars for each 30 second execution but it would be funny if they did so, being taxed so tv commercials can be made to tell us about the brand would be so surreal.

Thanks Rona for reminding me to pay my tv license. I haven't turned the tv on in about a week, but wouldn't it be annoying to click it on for a repeat of History of Britain and get a knock on the door from heavies with a court order to visit the local magistrates court, all to help pay for the nation's tv commercials.