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26 Feb 09 Wendy Richard Dead at 65

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Wendy Richard, whose career spanned many years, but was best known for her role as Pauline in BBC’s , has died, this morning  at the age of 65.

Wendy RichardShe was in the BBC sit-com The from 1965 to 1969, but is more well known for her part in ‘Are You Being Served’  the 1970′s in which she played .

She also appeared in two of the famous “Carry On’ .

In 2000 she was appointed an MBE.

She was diagnosed with in the 1990′s and again in 2002, and she died at the , with her husband at her bedside, where she was being treated, once again,  for .

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12 Oct 08 This Green & Pleasant Land

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A 25-year- from a night out died in hospital after being hit when two stolen collided and crashed into flats in Bedford, in

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/beds/bucks/herts/7665812.stm

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21 Aug 08 Broadcasting vs Streaming

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So the Olympics was watched on TV by around 92% of viewers, and if you look at the total minutes watched agaisnt minutes streamed online it’s over 99% (source TV Week)

I suspect that these are probably similar for most types of video material.

I know that I’m very atypical when it comes to TV. I almost exclusively obtain my news and worldly information from the Internet, with a much smaller amount from (mostly ). Then again, I watch very . Period.

Of course, producing TV programming isn’t cheap. Someone somewhere has to pay for it, and mostly its supported by advertising.  What I do find strange is that although many people will complain about on web sites, or blogs, such as this one, they’ll quite happily watch an hour-long show, that is interrupted without warning every 7-8 minutes by intrusive that can’t be skipped, and most often bear no relation to the content of the programming! For me, aside from having a great difficulty of finding content that I find interesting and engaging, viewing is spoiled for me by those ads.

I can watch shows from a service like or Hulu, and while there are commericials they’re much less obtrusive, more contextual, and much less frequent than .

Of course, another great advantage of online services such as those I mentioned above is the ‘on-demand’ model. I’ve already said I watch little TV, but if I did, I want it to be my slave and not my master. I don’t need to mess around with , , Tivo or anything else with Joost for example. I can watch what I want, when I want.

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