Alex Kelleher’s Blog

This out in August, but missed me until now.   Ofcom’s (UK communications regulator) “Communications Market Report“.  Apart from talk of the UK getting faster broadband (I’m not holding my breath, although buying a BT iPlate increased my connection speeds by almost double, I kid you not), something grabbed my attention.  The share of media time in terms of average minutes spent a day in each medium is:

• TV: 218 minutes
• Radio: 164 minutes
• Internet: 60 minutes

That’s right, the “lean-forward” medium we’re all breaking our backs over is a mere 60 minutes, or 13% of an average person’s day… 

Mind you, as my digital TV reception worsens, any TV I do watch is online via iPlayer and the equivalents at ITV and Channel 4.  That’s kind of half “lean-forward” half “sit-back” behaviour, as a) the screen isn’t big enough to be that far away, and b) endless Outlook email alerts interrupt anything I do try and watch.

admin Television, Web

Every so often (i.e. not very often), the web springs a pleasant and unexpected surprise.  Like when I clicked on the “enter site” link on Searcy’s guide to the 30 St Mary Axe, London (the “Gherkin”).  

I won’t spoil it, give it a go!

admin UI, Video, Web

253 million at the latest count, according to the government agency China Internet Network Information Centre.   Impressively, 214 million of those are broadband users – but the biggest growth is mobile phone access.   Apparently, the “Great Firewall of China” is still blocking or rendering unusable large numbers of sites, so any strategy looking to address China needs to have local hosting!

admin Statistics, Web

Courtesy of the guys at Widgetbox I’ve been exploring what’s available out there to embed and add value to visitors.  The answer is, unsuprisingly, “what isn’t available out there”.   I picked up couple of examples at random that I thought were interesting.  Added value?  Well…

admin Uncategorized, Web