Under the Rotunda

Monday, February 28, 2005

I've moved this blog to TypePad

About two weeks ago I moved my blog to TypePad, and it looks like I'm going to stay there for good.

So...

click here for my blog.

I've updated my FeedBurner feed, but if you're using the Blogger Atom feed, you'll need to ditch that one, and replace it with this: http://feeds.feedburner.com/UnderTheRotunda

Friday, February 18, 2005

Xbox power cord recall

Wow, 14.1 million adds up to a lot of black cord...

Link: AustralianIT - article herea>

Thursday, February 17, 2005

Podcasts and pausing

Alright, whichever smart-alec is working out a new mp3 file format that allows for pausing .... GET ON WITH IT!!

I'm sick of having to remember where I'm up to with my podcasts when I play them on iTunes (my current approach of adding my current time position into a field in the ID3 tag is becoming bothersome).

Wednesday, February 16, 2005

The Bulletin article on podcasting

Today's issue of The Bulletin has an article on podcasting, including comments from Mick Stanic. It also briefly touches on monetising the medium.

Link: article

Tuesday, February 15, 2005

Do The West Wing shuffle

Once again, the Nine Network have moved The West Wing from its
late Tuesday night time!!

This is the third week running I haven't gotten my fix - the first because of the cricket ending early, and last week the same as this - it's gone the way of Scrubs and Arrested Development on Seven, and just totally disappeared!

Not happy Jan!

Sunday, February 13, 2005

Weekly repeats of new season hits becoming the norm?

It started with the Seven Network having special 'encore' screenings of Desperate Housewives & Lost in the first week (they showed Desperate Houswives twice more after the Monday night premiere, with Lost getting one more run).

I notice now that both series have been rescreened for the second week (showing the second episode of course) - this time both on a Saturday night. Looks like they might do this for a few more weeks, just to make sure they've roped in whoever they possily can to the intriguing storylines. All repeats have been in the evenings, roughly around the same time if night of the original episodes airing.

The habit is spreading though - with Seven also rescreening the first two episodes of My Restaurant Rules today - a Sunday afternoon.

It also appears its not just Seven - Network Ten last night (Saturday night) replayed the premiere episode of Medium

It will be interesting to see how a Sunday afternoon's repeats of My Restaurant Rules rate up against Ten's screening of Oliver...

I have often lamented that networks fill their weekends with such ordinary reruns - where are the reruns of Scrubs, or Homicide, or Parker Lewis Cant Lose? Quality shows that would actually have a decent audience with reruns.

Update:
- My Restaurant Rules on Thursday night rated 13s/14s, while on Sunday afternoon it rated a 3. At the same time on Sunday the cricket on Nine (ING Cup) rated 7s/8s, while Oliver rated a 5.

- Medium on its premiere night of Thursday rated 6.3, while the Saturday night repeat rated a 6.

(All data based on Brisbane market HUTs)

Saturday, February 12, 2005

Google AdWords - Year in Review presentation

From the Google publicity department: AdWords Year in Review.

It doesn't say a whole bunch (the 6 tips at the end are nice though), but is written and presented really impressively - nice and simple, and effective.