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The Big Wide Digital World part 2

The thing is this digital world isn't confined to the same restrictions that the planet we live on is. Everyday it grows and gets stronger fuelled by the millions upon millions of mouse clicks and data streams. It has no atmosphere in the real sense, doesn't need oxygen to live. It can work 365 days a year and double up if you need it to and you can reach anyone nearly anywhere from your own chair. That's more power than a president or a country leader would have had 30 or 40 years ago. 

Technology on a personal level is easy to manage and easy to replace..

The strength of your network, the power of your network - It's not though we are just a part of it, some get past the single cell stage and evolve. Some, like google become a heartbeat, holding it all together for the mere mortals. Giving them an entry point to the asylum that is the social age.
(Google probably has taught the world more than most schools these days - how many times have you googled something just to find out an answer or research? - we are googlebots)

For a mere few quid a month I'm connected to the world. An evolution in a lifetime - from a single cell to something which starts to grow with others around them. As soon as one network grows another retracts. Facebook has changed the way people use the web. Whatever came first or whatever comes next its the first place I ever knew my gran had signed up to. Then came a few heated wall posts between friends, lovers, ex lovers and along came all the silly apps. Now its evolving into different things. 
You can almost use it in an entirely different way to others, even if its just playing poker.

So that's what is sitting in-front of us - and where will it go? The countries are in place, most of the lands are claimed and now we have to fit in with the system and the lands that are presented before us. There will be new lands and new discoveries but who will finish off the western frontier?

If you ever have an idea try this - google something around it and see what already exists - you I think may be surprised ...

The Big wide Digital world, and it's all yours.....

Just think for a second about this…….

Imagine that you could, with a computer and access to the internet publish your vision of a better world to all those who would care to listen. If you could stumble upon a rich source of content and support. A place where the space rubbish never clutters and megabits make musical melodies as they deliver your message to the masses. 

We don't mean adverts, not websites with company information and clever Java monsters popping up and blasting us with a HD3D view of the world nor do we need the 4 minutes between your favourite soaps to "get it out there". In fact, buses are of more use to us when it comes to the task. 
But fire up that laptop and you my pretty are on the way to stardom.

It's like X factor without the judges, Strictly come dancing without the scores. Imagine a funny version of Animals do the funniest things, or someone not dying at Christmas in Eastenders. 
It is the grail my sweets.

From now on your not just connected. You are super connected - look around you, look, look there out the window, thousands of them await you, millions of them want you. 

The possibilities that exist out in this new digital world are there, some will see things that others never will. Roads and streets and places are created every day in the digital world. It has no walls and no restrictions - you can write a blog just as easily as joining a swinging site. You can sign up for a life changing experience or order as much beef jerky as your jaw can chew. You can invite people into your living room, yet they never have to leave theirs.

We all write blogs for various reasons. To say we shoot from the hip is a fair assessment but then we'd have to already have the gun upon our persons if that was the case. Just today for instance I've just read a recipe for an awesome curry from some bloke somewhere who said I should have a look. I spend fair amount of time online, researching so its glad to have something ready at my fingertips, but I wonder do we then limit creativity? If everything is already there……

IT's up to you , to choose your path. Next time I'll tell you where I think you should start………
Actually of course I won't because I don't know your path, then that's the beauty of the digital age. 

Is Betting and Cheating the way to go in Sport?

Over the past few weeks I've been keeping up to date with the news about the betting within cricket and the shame it has brought upon the sport as a whole.


I'm not really a big cricket fan so I guess I haven't felt the impact as some die hard fans would. What impact does it have on watching a game or even trusting the scoreline. The constant allegations and huge syndicates that exist behind the sport....


But its deeper than that. 
Cricket has been exposed and its been going on for a while, but what other sports really now cannot be looked at with a lingering eye?


Football was thrown under the spotlight a few years ago, but what if the ref was on the books? or a striker having a bad patch, or a goalie who starts missing everythig? 
- all of a sudden questions can arise.


what about Rugby?? - Bloodgate for instance ?
Tennis - well that would be easy to throw a game, point or set here and there.
Snooker -already had a run in recently 


So what is to be trusted of our modern sports these days ? - don't get me wrong when I watch Spurs play the suggestion never enters my mind, but these days you never know what is going to turn up in the Sunday papers.

Songs not to play on hospital radio

When I was around 16 I worked for a local hospital radio station for a couple of years with a good friend of mine, presenting the From me to you show, with the Beatles as our backing track. We were never given the joy of being a producer (that came later) and had to sit in a room with a old microphone carved into the middle of a round table.

It was pure cheese back then, even walking around the wards you couldn't help but feel a little like smashy and nicey.

Some of the wards were for the very elderly and were full of charm and long battles with life, health and happiness- some grumbled, some moaned and some had nothing but a cheer in their heart. 

Maternity was always a strange place, very tense in some areas and very relaxed in others as each mother went through the stages of pregnancy but each sparkly in their own way. We saw 2 women twice through our time there, both laughing that we were still there doing our thing.

I digress slightly, 
While sitting there, presenting our "request show" there were always songs that you could not play, even if they were requested, and I thought you may have a a few as well to add to this list. 
I try to comically look at this, sometimes thinking about it we were so tempted when one of the older crew used to ask specifically for some great things.

Strangely "My Way" by Frank Sinatra was allowed. We worked on the basis that the guy that ran the station only ever looked at the titles and not the meanings of a song  i think it may have been one of the most requested nationally at the time but don't quote me on that

I can remember 3 songs that were on the "blacklist"

Stairway to Heaven
The first cut is the deepest 
Every Breath you take

Feel free to add some more