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Where's my wallet?
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You know that sinking feeling? The one you get when you realise you've selected the wrong file just after you hit delete? Or when you choose shutdown instead of restart on a remote server? Or when you realise that you can't find your wallet and the last time you know you had it was several days before?
Yep. Gone. Disappeared. Vanished. Probably not stolen, though perhaps dropped on the way home. Best guess however? Put in the dustbin by my 15 month old son. The day before the bins were collected.
Still it gives me the opportunity to see which of the banks/credit card companies respond in the most timely fashion to my crisis. I currently have no money and no way to get any money. All my cards were cancelled on Tuesday afternoon after the loss was noticed and the house ransacked.
In the lead so far are egg.com (whose card arrived this morning, but can't actually be used as they have not enabled a balance on it yet) followed (a way behind) by MBNA (they of the magical shifting payment dates and excessive late fees) who have sent a pin.
Nothing at all from my bank yet (LLoyds) who were the first to be phoned.
If egg enable my card by tomorrow am I guess they win the race and my eternal gratitude (I can then put petrol in the car and buy some food). Luckily it's not that bad - my better half has some cash and all her cards, but that means taking her everywhere to buy things for me. Not that I mind being a kept man, but it's somewhat inconvenient.
I'm also seriously considering cancelling all those cards that don't arrive in the top three. And yes that includes my current account! Get your skates on people.
Yep. Gone. Disappeared. Vanished. Probably not stolen, though perhaps dropped on the way home. Best guess however? Put in the dustbin by my 15 month old son. The day before the bins were collected.
Still it gives me the opportunity to see which of the banks/credit card companies respond in the most timely fashion to my crisis. I currently have no money and no way to get any money. All my cards were cancelled on Tuesday afternoon after the loss was noticed and the house ransacked.
In the lead so far are egg.com (whose card arrived this morning, but can't actually be used as they have not enabled a balance on it yet) followed (a way behind) by MBNA (they of the magical shifting payment dates and excessive late fees) who have sent a pin.
Nothing at all from my bank yet (LLoyds) who were the first to be phoned.
If egg enable my card by tomorrow am I guess they win the race and my eternal gratitude (I can then put petrol in the car and buy some food). Luckily it's not that bad - my better half has some cash and all her cards, but that means taking her everywhere to buy things for me. Not that I mind being a kept man, but it's somewhat inconvenient.
I'm also seriously considering cancelling all those cards that don't arrive in the top three. And yes that includes my current account! Get your skates on people.
Media gurus see user content as top threat - silicon.com
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"User-generated content is one of the media and entertainment industry's
biggest threats according to a survey - a signal that some established
businesses are struggling to cope with some of the web 2.0 trends."
Well at least they've realised that DRM isn't the panacea they hoped it would be. I suspect that they will still make money, however. How? By controlling media advertising. Actually the more forward thinking execs are probably laughing all the way to the bank. After all, with Web2.0 they don't have to finance artists or pay for the costly manufacturing and distribution. They don't even have to step out of the office and go to a gig. They can just surf myspace and youtube and all the other self promotion sites, find the most downloaded material and sign the act up. Then just move the content to iTunes, apply the bare minimum of marketing budgets and hoover up the profit.
Anyone who hoped that Web2.0 would make the mainstream more accessible to individual artists is probably going to be largely disappointed. The artists that do make it to the mainstream will probably find they have shorter shelf lives and make less money, though the higher artist turnover will perhaps spread a little more evenly what little cash does make its way
out of the music industry (and we all know by now how industry treats
the actual workers) into the artists' pockets. What Web2.0 does do is allow the rest of us to create and share ideas and ultimately it's ideas that can change the world. The fifteen minutes of fame Warhol promised could help things along, but in the future that might be all anyone gets.
biggest threats according to a survey - a signal that some established
businesses are struggling to cope with some of the web 2.0 trends."
Well at least they've realised that DRM isn't the panacea they hoped it would be. I suspect that they will still make money, however. How? By controlling media advertising. Actually the more forward thinking execs are probably laughing all the way to the bank. After all, with Web2.0 they don't have to finance artists or pay for the costly manufacturing and distribution. They don't even have to step out of the office and go to a gig. They can just surf myspace and youtube and all the other self promotion sites, find the most downloaded material and sign the act up. Then just move the content to iTunes, apply the bare minimum of marketing budgets and hoover up the profit.
Anyone who hoped that Web2.0 would make the mainstream more accessible to individual artists is probably going to be largely disappointed. The artists that do make it to the mainstream will probably find they have shorter shelf lives and make less money, though the higher artist turnover will perhaps spread a little more evenly what little cash does make its way
out of the music industry (and we all know by now how industry treats
the actual workers) into the artists' pockets. What Web2.0 does do is allow the rest of us to create and share ideas and ultimately it's ideas that can change the world. The fifteen minutes of fame Warhol promised could help things along, but in the future that might be all anyone gets.
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Updated LCs mixes
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New colours, new look, new content.
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Zakala's has had another facelift and is now fully using Joomla! The initial redirector still needs to be updated, but the site itself is now firmly Web2.0.
Nice.
Nice.
Wow! Colours!
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Sad isn't it? The site's only been live a few weeks and already I'm tinkering with the templates. I found these nice multi coloured templates from Estime Oy and thought they looked nicer than the visual pixel one I was using. I even improvised and created a few versions of my own. Even more amazingly the colour will change during the day (and night) thanks to a clever plug-in called Timed Templates. Now that's clever!