 | 09 February 2002 |
Will Wins Pop Idol [Sky News]
11:41:51 PM
I thought I was second - Pop Idol winner Will [Ananova] 11:38:22 PM
Pop Idol Will Heads For The Stars [Ananova] 11:36:47 PM
Will Is Surprise Winner Of Pop Idol11:34:32 PM
William conquers Pop Idol [BBC] 11:26:12 PM
Will is Pop Idol with record vote [ITV] 11:13:17 PM
Will wins Pop Idol [BBC] 11:11:27 PM
Will wins Pop Idol [This is London] 11:10:14 PM
Well done to winner Will Young!
4.6 votes for the winner vs. 4.1 million votes for Gareth an astonishing 8.7 million votes in total!
10:35:07 PM Kate Thornton: "I can confirm that during the last 3 minutes we've seen it rise to 7.3 million" 10:15:26 PM
Kate Thornton: "Votes are up to 6.7 million...the lead is changing by the minute..." 10:03:45 PM
Pop Idol duo await vote [BBC] 9:55:06 PM
Kate Thornton announces: "We are well over 6 million votes" 9:53:44 PM
Pop Idol phone numbers:
Gareth: 09011 980 905
Will: 09011 980 904
Or vote online on the ITV Pop Idol site.
8:14:54 PM Everyone's a winner in the money factory that is 'Pop Idol' [The Independent] 7:39:49 PM
So, Will, what's the inspiration for an instant TV idol? Er, Marx [The Independent] 7:38:40 PM
Princess Margaret dies. "Princess Margaret, the younger sister of the Queen, has died "peacefully in her sleep", Buckingham Palace has announced. She was 71. In a statement, the Palace said: "The Queen, with great sadness, has asked for the following announcement to be made immediately." [ITN Online] 6:55:16 PM
Computer science's gender gap. "Tech News - CNET.com Computer science's gender gap In a new book entitled "Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing," social scientist and scholar Jane Margolis and computer scientist and educator Allan Fisher explore why only a small fraction of... "[via Duncan's Jotter] 6:54:16 PM
Bookies back Gareth for Pop Idol [This is London] 6:16:27 PM
Tonight's the night for nation's Pop Idol [IC Newcastle] 6:14:56 PM
Pop Idol winner 'set for long career' [Ananova] 6:13:14 PM
Final countdown for Pop Idol duo [BBC] 6:11:49 PM
Millions to vote for Pop Idol [ITV] 6:09:37 PM
Will it be Will? [The Sun] 7:19:16 AM
GARETH FIRM FAVOURITE FOR POP IDOL [Mirror] 7:16:23 AM
Millions to vote for new Pop Idol [Ananova] 7:14:07 AM
Christians urged to worship pop idol [The Times] 7:12:21 AM
No real losers in Pop Idol duel - yet [Guardian] 7:07:26 AM
Bookies bank on Gareth to be Pop Idol [Telegraph] 7:05:45 AM
Will-tastic weekend for Pop Idol's university [BBC] 7:02:30 AM
More shopping. Just bought my Radio license for $40. What is it they say about "A fool and his money" :-) Incredible. I used to be a Frontier subscriber (licence now ~$1000 so Radio seems like exceptional value! The online purchasing has made it so much easier for us international users. For my first Frontier license Userland weren't accepting credit cards at the time so I had to get some exotic paperwork from the bank - an International Money Order(?) and post it by airmail. Thankfully it all worked out eventually with Frontier but it took the best part of a month.A big improvement.
2:49:56 AM QVC is offering Adobe Acrobat 5 for £123.72 today - that's a nice chunk off the usual. Go to the QVC site and type in 418 351to their search box. 2:35:09 AM
I was looking for a utility to make screencaptures and came across this very handy freeware program Automatic WWW Screencapture Program 0.01 . Even better it can run in batch mode taking input from a tab delimited file and can generate either .bmp or jpeg and can scale the images. I wonder....
- Say I spider Quine to pull out all the external links into a textfile
- write a script to process the text file and generate the batch data file then start the screencapture program,
- Now the important bit 'have a coffee' ...comeback.
Would I end up with a visual directory of Quine links? Ooh that would be, well, cool. One of the things we've found at work is that it's all well and good to have link checkers but they tell you nothing about whether the *content* of a site has changed, yes you'll get a date but what if the domain has changed hands and the content is now nothing like the original that was linked to. This has obvious dangers with educational domains. A European project a few years ago allowed the registration to expire when the project was completed, the domain was then snapped up by, sigh, a porn outfit so you would have all these school pages with links to a porn site - a horrifying prospect.
Radio possiibilities (inspired by Garth Kidd's Throat):
- And of course generate an OPML file and make sure the generated images are sent to a directory upstreamed by Radio.
- Render the OPML with a customised outline renderer.
Bugger. I want to try it but why are there never enough hours in the day...need to keep my strength up for the final of you-know-what. Incase you haven't already noticed(!) I've been stricken with Pop Idol fever. It's massive. From last week's site visitors alone on the UserLand Site Report it has rocketed the Scottish Lass site from nowhere ~64th in the *all time* Radio hits, jeez I'm rubbing shoulders with Doc Searls stats-wise! Much higher and I'll have a nosebleed :-)
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