Archive for 'tv' Category

Diggnation Comes To An End

By Surferbill - Last updated: Monday, October 3, 2011

“Diggnation will tape its final weekly episode at the end of 2011, closing out an epic 340 episode run.” Sad times… Good luck to Kevin and Alex with their next ventures! via Revision3 > Blog > Diggnation Retirement.

Jonathan Ross is back on TV and is the talk of the town (well, Twitter)

By Surferbill - Last updated: Saturday, January 24, 2009

Watched Jonathan Ross tonight with Stephen Fry, and they talked briefly about Twitter. The Twitterverse was watching intensely and of course, Twittered about it the whole evening…

Pastafarian Families needed for Wife Swap

By Surferbill - Last updated: Wednesday, July 23, 2008

“Wife Swap, ABC’s hit primetime reality show, is looking for Pastafarian families for an upcoming episode”, according to a post at the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. So if you are a family of two parents and at least one child between 7 and 17, living in the US and have been touched by [...]

The Pirates Can’t Be Stopped

By Surferbill - Last updated: Thursday, January 17, 2008

Have a read of this long but interesting article talking about piracy, including an interview with ‘Ethan’, the hacker who broke into Media Defender.

Piracy used to measure popularity of TV programs

By Surferbill - Last updated: Monday, December 17, 2007

“TV executives are starting to sit up and use online media to gauge the popularity of their programs.” Read more…