Around a million poeple must have blogged about this already, but I can't resist adding to the huge number of words already published about Google Wave.

If you're into technology you have to watch this video. Yup, it's 80 minutes, but after the first 5 you'll be as hooked as I was.

I wish I was a programmer, because I'd love to work with this. As it is, I'll sit and wait for Wave to be released - and believe me, I'll be signed up on Day 1.

This is phenomenal work and it proves yet again, that to succeed, you don't have to reinvent something that ain't broke (Bing versus Google Search) but in the best lateral thinking tradition, rather than digging the same hole deeper, go and dig a new hole somewhere else.!

I want Google Wave and I'm going to be there on the doorstep when it's released. I say again; watch the video - actually it's probably best to go to YouTube and watch it, choose HQ so you can see the screen shots clearly, and click on full screen!

This is what I've been doing for the last couple of days; not only organising the technical and staging aspects for the National Congress but changing the branding for CSHS as well!

While I was busy making educational TV programmes, others were having "the best days of their lives".

I'm talking about the 1960s when Pirate Radio came to the UK and shook up all those stuffy governmental and BBC types. If you're reading this in the USA you'll have no idea just what this meant to us Brits; see the fim when it comes out and you might have!

As my 23 (soon to be 24) year-old daughter would say, I am, SOOOooo going to be first in the queue to see this when it comes out.

In fact, come on Handmade Films, stump up a couple of tickets to the Premiere for all this free publicity I'm giving you! Think about it - it would be positively unethical, if not illegal, to have a premiere for this film without a sizeable contingenent of the listeners whose lives and loves British Pirate Radio changed. (Actually I'll have three tickets, please, my mate Neil would like one too).

Seriously, everyone, see the film! Oh yes, but don't believe everything you see - it was twice as bad (or should that be good?) as the film shows!

It should be worth seeing just to listen to the soundtrack - all those great mid- to late-60s numbers at cinema quality - oh yes!

I've chosen the International Trailer to head this post - it explains a bit more for those of you who weren't lucky or privileged enough to have spent your teenage years living through it in the UK. The video below is what the makers term Trailer "D" and is a little more "to the point"! ;-)



All this talk of Pirate Radio has enthused me enough to put together a Playlist of some of the greatest tunes of that era. Hit Play and enjoy!

Last night was a night of small historic note in TV advertising.

LastMinute.com broadcast a three minute TV commercial, split into three, one-minute segments and broadcast consecutively on three different TV channels.

The first was shown at 9:50om on ITV1, the second was broadcast at 9:51pm on Channel 4 and the third ran at 9:52pm on Channel Five.

This was billed as "The Worlds First Mexican Thumb Wave". In fact, LastMinute must have spent quite a bit on this. They obviously had a crew or crews in all sorts of different holiday destinations and persuaded ordinary holidaymakers to join in.

The ad is well edited and the concept of having to channel hop to see it in toto is innovative.

OK, so it's a gimmick, but it worked for me - it got me there channel hopping, and I'm sure it will have for many others. There's a competition running alongside the ad' to "count the thumbs" if you want to try it, click here.

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