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Tomorrow on the Johnathon Ross show, @wossy and @StephenFry will chat about twitter, I caught them chatting about this on twitter a couple of weeks ago about doing this and at the time thought, and tweeted this would be a big deal.

News stories have been broken through citizen journalist for a while now, and the networks have been working out how to manage and prioritise the inbound traffic. But what seems interesting to me is that for a few 'celebrities' who are comfortable with the twitter conversations there is a huge opportunity to connect and converse with their audience and fans.

Imogen Heap has been making her latest album whilst blogging, uploading videos and tweeting and its an amazing journey she's been on. Anyway - back to Johnathon Ross, I'd love to find out if there is a way to track the growth after the show. 

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Amazon has just announced a CDN in the AWS family:
 
"Amazon CloudFront, a new web service for content delivery. With CloudFront, you can distribute content using a worldwide network of edge locations that provide low latency and high data transfer speeds."
 
Its an interesting and needed development - and a great additional building block in the rich media development toolbox. Craig Dwyer
www.tomim.co.uk
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Going back to the days when I was a runner and video tape operator, I commuted from Longfield in Kent to Covent Garden in London everyday. using a combination of the coach, train and the occasional drive into London. If I went by road I'd usually come through Blackheath and Greenwich. Anyhow fast forward to today (20+ years later) and I'm staying at my good pal Darryl's flat in Greenwich which is 100 yards from the main road I passed everyday at 7 am. It seems slightly strange. That said the last couple of weeks have been odd, we have now moved out of our home in Tufnell Park down to Devon. This morning the children started at a new school, and I came up to London on the train to start my 3-4 days a week in London regime. I'm really hopeful that it all works out - It's a major new chapter for us. More later...

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The EFF are continuing a case against the telecoms industry that the US Government has wanted to sweep aside. Problem is the EFF won't let it.

From Boing Boing:

Remember when the Electronic Frontier Foundation discovered that the NSA had been wiretapping the entire Internet, illegally, with collaboration from the nation's phone companies? Remember when they sued the phone companies in order to discover the full extent of this illegal, warrantless domestic spying?

Remember when Congress -- including both presidential candidates -- voted to give the phone companies immunity from prosecution, even though they had clearly broken the law, on the grounds that the president had asked them to? (If the president asked you to shoot someone, would Congress let you off the hook, too?)

Well now EFF is suing to have the immunity -- the unconstitutional immunity -- overturned. Go EFF! "The immunity law puts the fox in charge of the hen house, letting the Attorney General decide whether or not telecoms like AT&T can be sued for participating in the government's illegal warrantless surveillance," said EFF Senior Staff Attorney Kevin Bankston. "In our constitutional system, it is the judiciary's role as a co-equal branch of government to determine the scope of the surveillance and rule on whether it is legal, not the executive's. The Attorney General should not be allowed to unconstitutionally play judge and jury in these cases, which affect the privacy of millions of Americans."

In the public version of his certification to the court, Attorney General Mukasey asserted that the government had no "content-dragnet" program that searched for keywords in the body of communications. However, the government did not deny the dragnet acquisition of the content of communications. In support of its opposition, EFF provided the court with a summary of thousands of pages of documents demonstrating the broad dragnet surveillance of millions of innocent Americans' communications. Eight volumes of exhibits accompanied the detailed summary, including eyewitness accounts and testimony under oath.

"We have overwhelming record evidence that the domestic spying program is operating far outside the bounds of the law," said EFF Senior Staff Attorney Kurt Opsahl. "Intelligence agencies, telecoms, and the Administration want to sweep this case under the rug, but the Constitution won't permit it." 

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Just spotted an article in the Times (News pg.11) about ITV working with Keystream to do real time video analytics and advertising overlays and embedding - don't see how this will fit with ofcom guidelines regarding editorial and advertising separation though. Perhaps going to be used by ITV to negotiate a more relaxed (and potentially lucrative) advertorial approach. I'll try to dig out an example from the ITV local website. Craig Dwyer
www.tomim.co.uk
+44 7968 624 884

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Just picked this up on paid content:

BBC Worldwide has now confirmed Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) UK's online services group VP Chris Dobson is joining it, as we reported last month. His job title's a big one - EVP and general manager of global ad sales. Dobson will oversee advertising across TV channels and online including BBC World News, and will sit above both Jonathan Howlett and Mark Gall, who were brought to head digital ads for international and US respectively in November, when BBC.com launched with its controversial advertising. Dobson, who will report to Darren Childs, has a remit to grow advertising income from the BBC's commercial arm, which reinvests in BBC content. BBC.com made £1.5 million from ads between November and March, and BBCWW plans to grow that significantly.


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Craig Dwyer
www.tomim.co.uk
+44 7968 624 884

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