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So do I, but for different reasons. It's because the mobile industry &lt;i&gt;sucks&lt;/i&gt; and isn't getting better. It ties you in to terrible contracts, kicks innovation in the balls and lives off £2.99 ringtones sold to 12-year-olds. We need to destroy the mobile industry so that a good mobile industry can be reborn in it's place." created="Sat, 23 Jun 2007 00:24:11 GMT"/>		<outline text="BBC prove themselves even more irrelevant than previously thought" created="Sat, 23 Jun 2007 16:52:32 GMT">			<outline text="An open letter to the &lt;abbr title=&quot;British Broadcasting Corporation&quot;&gt;BBC&lt;/abbr&gt;:" created="Sat, 23 Jun 2007 16:53:02 GMT"/>			<outline text="I think it's absolutely ridiculous that the &lt;abbr title=&quot;British Broadcasting Corporation&quot;&gt;BBC&lt;/abbr&gt; have ended the 'trial' podcast of the Now Show. I only listen to the Now Show via podcast, because that's the only way that is convenient for me. And I'm not the only one. According to various sources, the Now Show consistently does spectacularly well in the podcast rankings. I've often logged in to iTunes to see it high on the charts of most popular podcasts, so much so that it has been declared as the fourth most popular podcast on iTunes (and a 4 out of 5 rating after 55 reviews on iTunes &lt;abbr title=&quot;United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland&quot;&gt;UK&lt;/abbr&gt; - the few negative reviews are mostly because the podcast is no longer available)."/>			<outline text="I have no truck with scheduling and I absolutely abhor the RealMedia nonsense the &lt;abbr title=&quot;British Broadcasting Corporation&quot;&gt;BBC&lt;/abbr&gt; have set up on their site - which I find unreliable and close to unusable. I'd rather not listen to a show at all than have to listen to it using inconvenient technology or according to someone else's schedule. I enjoyed the Now Show, but regret that since the &lt;abbr title=&quot;British Broadcasting Corporation&quot;&gt;BBC&lt;/abbr&gt; have stopped making it available in a useful format (ie. podcast), I am compelled to stop listening to it."/>			<outline text="I will not go out of my way to listen to a programme which tries to make it inconvenient for me to listen to it - there are plenty of other programmes produced by both the public and private sector as well as plucky individuals which see the benefit in podcast distribution. There's a whole universe of things which I can get delivered by &lt;abbr title=&quot;Really Simple Syndication&quot;&gt;RSS&lt;/abbr&gt; directly to my podcatcher. I haven't got the time or energy to bother going to the things which are made intentionally difficult to listen to. If everything you could possibly want is only one click away, why would you want to bother with things that are two clicks away?" created="Sat, 23 Jun 2007 17:01:04 GMT"/>			<outline text="The &lt;abbr title=&quot;British Broadcasting Corporation&quot;&gt;BBC&lt;/abbr&gt; have a very &lt;a href=&quot;http://tommorris.org/blog/2006/03/26#When:16:14:29&quot;&gt;reluctant relationship with podcasting&lt;/a&gt;, which is extremely sad to see. Presenters often seem highly dismissive of it (Andrew Marr once dismissed the podcast audience of Start The Week as part of the 'non-literary culture' - which is quite amusing, since podcasting is only fancy technological glue to allow one to listen to what must be the equivalently non-literary culture of &lt;abbr title=&quot;British Broadcasting Corporation&quot;&gt;BBC&lt;/abbr&gt; television and radio on a computer or portable device), and the cancellation of the Now Show podcast seems part of that general attitude of reluctance to join the rest of the civilised world in distributing their media through a convenient format. Other public service broadcasters (including &lt;abbr title=&quot;Public Broadcasting Service&quot;&gt;PBS&lt;/abbr&gt; and &lt;abbr title=&quot;National Public Radio&quot;&gt;NPR&lt;/abbr&gt; in the United States), as well as commercial broadcasters like CNN, Channel 4, ABC and Sky News, have joined the podcasting fray a lot less reluctantly than the &lt;abbr title=&quot;British Broadcasting Corporation&quot;&gt;BBC&lt;/abbr&gt;. I understand that there are licence and &lt;abbr title=&quot;intellectual property&quot;&gt;IP&lt;/abbr&gt; issues which play in to the &lt;abbr title=&quot;British Broadcasting Corporation&quot;&gt;BBC&lt;/abbr&gt;'s 'maybe-ish' relationship with podcasting, but it is not beyond an organisation of the &lt;abbr title=&quot;British Broadcasting Corporation&quot;&gt;BBC&lt;/abbr&gt;'s size to sort out such issues if there were only a clear will within &lt;abbr title=&quot;British Broadcasting Corporation&quot;&gt;BBC&lt;/abbr&gt; management to do so. Actually, perhaps it is. Perhaps we have a collective delusion as licence payers that the &lt;abbr title=&quot;British Broadcasting Corporation&quot;&gt;BBC&lt;/abbr&gt; are competent of understanding even relatively straight-forward ideas like &quot;making it easier to listen to things means more people will listen&quot;."/>			<outline text="The opening up of podcast feeds for even the tiniest smattering of &lt;abbr title=&quot;British Broadcasting Corporation&quot;&gt;BBC&lt;/abbr&gt; content is one of the few things that has signalled that the &lt;abbr title=&quot;British Broadcasting Corporation&quot;&gt;BBC&lt;/abbr&gt; has not been totally destroyed by the Internet (the iPlayer is going to be pretty much dead-on-arrival and the Creative Archive might be interesting if it happens this side of the year 2497). I've said it before, and I'll say it again - you guys should be singing from the hilltops that you are still relevant for an Internet age. Yet again, the &lt;abbr title=&quot;British Broadcasting Corporation&quot;&gt;BBC&lt;/abbr&gt; have proved itself to be totally insignificant and superfluous in the Internet age - mismanaged, lost and irresolute."/>			<outline text="Perhaps the &lt;abbr title=&quot;British Broadcasting Corporation&quot;&gt;BBC&lt;/abbr&gt; could call me in fifteen years time if you've got your shit together and realised what is so obvious to everyone under the age of about 65. This, for me, is the nail in the coffin for the &lt;abbr title=&quot;British Broadcasting Corporation&quot;&gt;BBC&lt;/abbr&gt;'s relevance in an age where the Internet eclipses everything (which it most definitely has). Back in the Middle Ages, betting against the Catholic Church was not a smart move. Today, betting against the Internet is an even stupider move. The &lt;abbr title=&quot;British Broadcasting Corporation&quot;&gt;BBC&lt;/abbr&gt; have done just that."/>			<outline text="Whatever next? Maybe the &lt;abbr title=&quot;HyperText Markup Language&quot;&gt;HTML&lt;/abbr&gt; Working Group will suggest that we ought to keep the FONT tag. Oh, wait... &quot;;-&gt;&quot;" created="Sat, 23 Jun 2007 17:04:49 GMT"/>			<outline text="Tags: &lt;a href=&quot;http://technorati.com/tag/bbc&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bbc&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://technorati.com/tag/podcasting&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;podcasting&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://technorati.com/tag/podcast&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;podcast&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://technorati.com/tag/incompetence&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;incompetence&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://technorati.com/tag/mismanagement&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mismanagement&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://technorati.com/tag/delusion+of adequacy&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;delusion of adequacy&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://technorati.com/tag/now+show&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;now show&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://technorati.com/tag/the+now show&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;the now show&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://technorati.com/tag/idiocy&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;idiocy&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://technorati.com/tag/mind-bending+stupidity&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;mind-bending stupidity&lt;/a&gt;" created="Sat, 23 Jun 2007 17:05:42 GMT"/>			<outline test="&lt;b&gt;Update (1 Oct 2007):&lt;/b&gt; The BBC have changed their policy. They have made a feed available again for the Now Show. This kind of turn around is to be commended. Congratulations, BBC." />			<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.haloscan.com/comments/tommorris/bbcProveThemselvesEvenMoreIrrelevantThanPreviouslyThought42634/&quot;&gt;&lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;postCount('bbcProveThemselvesEvenMoreIrrelevantThanPreviouslyThought42634');&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.haloscan.com/tb/tommorris/bbcProveThemselvesEvenMoreIrrelevantThanPreviouslyThought42634/&quot;&gt;&lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;postCountTB('bbcProveThemselvesEvenMoreIrrelevantThanPreviouslyThought42634'); &lt;/script&gt;&lt;/a&gt;"/>			</outline>		<outline text="Advertising is stone cold dead - get used to it" created="Sat, 23 Jun 2007 18:24:28 GMT">			<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.newsome.org/2007/06/is-new-school-synonym-for-blogomercial.shtml&quot;&gt;Kent Newsome&lt;/a&gt; has a great post on the People Ready thing, which proves the ultimate hypocrisy of certain parts of the A-list - the &lt;i&gt;same&lt;/i&gt; A-list who condemned PayPerPost have been caught with their hand in the advertorial cookie jar. Which is actually &lt;i&gt;extremely&lt;/i&gt; funny. It proves the absolute ethical vacuum at the heart of Silicon Valley. PayPerPost wasn't bad &lt;i&gt;per se&lt;/i&gt;, it was bad because non-A-listers could take part! Comparison with American high school movies cliques can kick in right about now, if you want to. Read Nietzsche, for fuck's sake, and you'll see that calls to morality are more often than not self-serving. If Arrington and Co. can make a few dollars, that's good. If the masses can get their hands on the marketing budget, that is absolutely not allowed - it's &lt;i&gt;evil&lt;/i&gt; (though not necessarily bad). Come on folks, let's pretend to be outraged for a few minutes." created="Sat, 23 Jun 2007 18:24:37 GMT"/>			<outline text="Let me float an idea. Advertising, sponsorship, marketing, &lt;abbr title=&quot;Public Relations&quot;&gt;PR&lt;/abbr&gt;. The whole thing is actually completely dead. I haven't seen a banner ad since about 1999. I have never punched the monkey, nor have I ever clicked a banner or a Google text ad &lt;i&gt;in my whole life&lt;/i&gt;. I filter them all. No, seriously, the only time I click on adverts is when I right-click on them to add a new rule to Adblock." created="Sat, 23 Jun 2007 18:26:50 GMT"/>			<outline text="Advertising is not due 'for reform', it is completely dead and buried. The Internet has &lt;i&gt;replaced&lt;/i&gt; advertising, not provided a new platform for it. It's just completely annhilated it. It's as dead as the telegraph and the dodo." created="Sat, 23 Jun 2007 18:28:58 GMT"/>			<outline text="Advertising agencies exist only because this reality has yet to sink in to the minds of people who buy advertising, who aren't exactly the sharpest knives in the proverbial drawer." created="Sat, 23 Jun 2007 18:31:46 GMT"/>			<outline text="I don't know anybody who &lt;i&gt;doesn't&lt;/i&gt; click 'mute' when the adverts come on and go grab a drink. No, seriously, nobody. Do you honestly think that anybody other than the Business Studies &lt;abbr title=&quot;General National Vocational Qualifications&quot;&gt;GNVQ&lt;/abbr&gt; dropout crowd watch advertising? Advertising isn't someting you watch, it's something you get a job in so that you can make money out of the stupidity of &lt;i&gt;other people&lt;/i&gt;. Advertising is something you blog about, not something you actually pay any attention to. Advertising is made for Beavis and Butthead-style fictional characters, not actual, real people." created="Sat, 23 Jun 2007 18:38:39 GMT"/>			<outline text="Advertising is something you filter out. Making money from advertising is like making money from screaming babies or people nattering away on mobile phones. It's just &lt;i&gt;noise&lt;/i&gt;, and on the Internet, super-powerful &lt;a href=&quot;http://adblock.mozdev.org/&quot;&gt;noise cancelling headphones cost nothing&lt;/a&gt;." created="Sat, 23 Jun 2007 19:01:46 GMT"/>			<outline text="It is an absolute farce that so many Web 2.0 companies hope to eke out a living from advertising, as if Silicon Valley is the new Hollywood or something. If it wasn't for the fact that so much money is tied up with these enterprises, it would be laughable. Unfortunately, when the bust comes (thanks to inflated click through numbers, click fraud, 'accidents' etc.) and granny's pension fund goes kaput, it'll all seem a lot less funny." created="Sat, 23 Jun 2007 18:33:10 GMT"/>			<outline text="And yet, I still pay for things online. I still buy books and read them. I have a subscription to a premium radio show/podcast. I buy the odd bits of software now and again. I grab Skype credits when I travel so I can say in touch with people. I still surf eBay and buy funny odd trinkets of video gaming history that then costs me a fscking fortune to ship over from Japan." created="Sat, 23 Jun 2007 18:34:36 GMT"/>			<outline text="Make something good and useful and I'll pay a reasonably price for it. Call me a 'content generator' or a 'user' or give me fake testimonials or preach to me about the evils of getting paid for advertorial while taking backhanders from Microsoft and I'll just yawn at you and keep my wallet firmly shut. If your product is good, you don't need a marketing budget. If your product sucks, spending money on marketing is pretty much fruitless anyway." created="Sat, 23 Jun 2007 18:47:11 GMT"/>			<outline text="Still, three banner clicks in over a decade. That's pretty good ad spending, folks. You've made a real big influence on me with that..." created="Sat, 23 Jun 2007 18:54:11 GMT"/>			<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.haloscan.com/comments/tommorris/advertisingIsStoneColdDeadGetUsedToIt72490/&quot;&gt;&lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;postCount('advertisingIsStoneColdDeadGetUsedToIt72490');&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.haloscan.com/tb/tommorris/advertisingIsStoneColdDeadGetUsedToIt72490/&quot;&gt;&lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;postCountTB('advertisingIsStoneColdDeadGetUsedToIt72490'); &lt;/script&gt;&lt;/a&gt;"/>			</outline>		</body>	</opml>