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Dec. 11th, 2008
The internal TV aerial we'd been using gave up on the last remaining spot where we could still get a signal, so a nice man is coming to install Freesat for us next week. We get two hundred and forty channels and I don't really want any of them but still, it is free, the nice people assured me ... and what kind of incomparable titmonkey markets a flat without a TV aerial? Seriously.
I took a look at a list of the 240 new channels we'll be getting the other day, and among the delights that await are, and I promise I am not making these up;
The Audi Channel - for cocks who drive Audis.
Horse and Country - for cocks who like huntin', shootin' and bangin' the door of one's Audi at 3am.
Ocean Finance - for people who can't afford Audis.
And yes, that would be Ocean Finance as in 'do you need help consolidating your loans into one easy monthly repayment' Ocean Finance.
There's more. There's WatchmeTV.tv, which appears to be YouTube for idiots, there's Psychic TV, which is pretty self-explanatory, and there's 'pan-Arabian edutainment' network, the Al Jazeera Children's Channel, which claims to make 40% of its own programming and in a Nancy Reaganesque twist is, according to Wikipedia, the pet project of the 'second' wife of the Emir of Qatar.
Mind you, that's the same Wikipedia that has at various times claimed that Robbie Williams made his millions eating domestic pets, Tony Blair had posters of Hitler on his wall, and David Cameron was "a bit of a bitch".
Back to the goggletube, and something for those people for whom Islam seems a bit too much like hard work, there's also a plethora of Christian networks, among them Daystar, which I'm looking forward very much to watching. A drop down menu on their website, right next to an ad for a Christian golf invitational, invites viewers to variously 'Submit a Prayer' and 'Know Jesus.'
All I wanted was BBCs One through Four, and maybe E4 for the Friends reruns...
I'll let you know how it goes.
I took a look at a list of the 240 new channels we'll be getting the other day, and among the delights that await are, and I promise I am not making these up;
The Audi Channel - for cocks who drive Audis.
Horse and Country - for cocks who like huntin', shootin' and bangin' the door of one's Audi at 3am.
Ocean Finance - for people who can't afford Audis.
And yes, that would be Ocean Finance as in 'do you need help consolidating your loans into one easy monthly repayment' Ocean Finance.
There's more. There's WatchmeTV.tv, which appears to be YouTube for idiots, there's Psychic TV, which is pretty self-explanatory, and there's 'pan-Arabian edutainment' network, the Al Jazeera Children's Channel, which claims to make 40% of its own programming and in a Nancy Reaganesque twist is, according to Wikipedia, the pet project of the 'second' wife of the Emir of Qatar.
Mind you, that's the same Wikipedia that has at various times claimed that Robbie Williams made his millions eating domestic pets, Tony Blair had posters of Hitler on his wall, and David Cameron was "a bit of a bitch".
Back to the goggletube, and something for those people for whom Islam seems a bit too much like hard work, there's also a plethora of Christian networks, among them Daystar, which I'm looking forward very much to watching. A drop down menu on their website, right next to an ad for a Christian golf invitational, invites viewers to variously 'Submit a Prayer' and 'Know Jesus.'
All I wanted was BBCs One through Four, and maybe E4 for the Friends reruns...
I'll let you know how it goes.
Craving your indulgence...
Dec. 11th, 2008 10:20 pmFor just a short while at least. So, I'm obviously using Twitter these days, and some other sites and platforms too, and I've been getting very curious as to how everything Web 2.0-like ties together, how people find things and read things, the connections they make to get places, and what makes them stick around when they do.
Some of you will know that my primary blogging engine these days is Blogger, and if you've not already followed the links from here to there then now's your chance.
I'm doing a sort of mini-project with no real scientific basis or intent or any actual direction over there at the minute, to hopefully try and answer my own questions and maybe generate some more. It really is entirely badly worded and very self-indulgent, but if just a few of you had a look and a think and maybe shared some thoughts it would be very lovely.
Here's the link: http://thebletherforecast.blogspot.com/2008/12/big-new-media-whore-has-big-new-media.html ... hope to talk to some of you soon.
<3
Some of you will know that my primary blogging engine these days is Blogger, and if you've not already followed the links from here to there then now's your chance.
I'm doing a sort of mini-project with no real scientific basis or intent or any actual direction over there at the minute, to hopefully try and answer my own questions and maybe generate some more. It really is entirely badly worded and very self-indulgent, but if just a few of you had a look and a think and maybe shared some thoughts it would be very lovely.
Here's the link: http://thebletherforecast.blogspot.com/2008/12/big-new-media-whore-has-big-new-media.html ... hope to talk to some of you soon.
<3
