Category: Entertainment

  • Jonathan Ross comeback lights up Twitter

    In common with thousands of fellow Twitter users, I sat down on the sofa at 10:35pm last night for the first of the continuance of the 15th series of Friday Night With Jonathan Ross, the chat show on BBC1 with…

  • Some journalists’ fascination with Twitter

    Both the Mail on Sunday and Sunday Telegraph published stories about Twitter yesterday. As a way of bringing this micro-blogging / text chatting / social network / service to the attention of a wider UK public, both papers have done…

  • Animoto video comes to iPhone

    If you have an iPhone, I advise you to visit the iTunes App Store immediately and install Animoto, a free app and one of the coolest I’ve yet seen for iPhone. I’m a huge fan of Animoto, the service that…

  • An easy guide to destroying reputations

    The kerfuffle surrounding Russell Brand, Jonathan Ross and the BBC came to a conclusion of sorts a few days ago with Brand quitting, Ross suspended and the BBC’s head of Radio 2 resigning. This story has many of the ingredients…

  • Brand and Ross: Their publics may be their downfall

    The hot news today isn’t the global financial crisis. Nor is it the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Not even the US presidential election. No, hot news in the UK this morning is the kerfuffle surrounding entertainers Jonathan Ross and…