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I am of course talking about Twitter, which has seemed to hit the seen quicker than MySpace or Facebook and the other other social networking sites that are all the rage. With twitter there's nothing silly or outlandish about it. It is what it is 140 characters of simplicity which in the fast-paced society we live is the most obvious way of networking, isn't it?
Except for the service of semi-linked picture site, it just takes all the complexity out of networking. You could go as far as saying that it is mini-blogging, fitting as much as you can into the space of a text message. The rise of Twitter has come about around the fifth birthday of Facebook and that shows how people are still enjoying that sort of networking. And to be honest Facebook has anything you could think on it, and its succes will come like a craze in the playground with each generation passing it to the next generation.
Twitter is a well thought system with, as I said it working like a mini-blog, as celebrities add comment to their lives just like any average Joe with a mobile or computer does. For Example, it was well documented that whilst on his last trip across and through every state of America, Stephen Fry used Twitter to tell people where he was, see his progress and allow others to help him find the best places to visit.
In short Twitter can be used by anyone, and will act as a simple version of Facebook, because do people really have the time these days? Especially when they can update on everything and add photos straight from their mobile phone.
By The Way: http://twitter.com/deevue/
The Oscars, a once a year event that brings film-makers and actors from every corner of the earth. As usual there are many nominations from this years biggest blockbusters, actors, actresses and directors.But sometimes can the event be bigger than the movies? The event is becoming a farce just more screen time for these money-grabbing "actors" and "actresses". To be honest, films like Slumdog Millionaire, this year, have illustrated REAL film-making, for example sometimes the actors become bigger than the movies, and not even the actors, but just their names. I ask, who now-a-days actually goes to the movies to see a decent movie with totally unknowns in it?
Yes, the Oscars are about outstanding film-making, but the event is too over advertised, everything in Hollywood is about money, money, money and if they can't get over that than they will never have truly amazing acting. One Example of truly shocking Hollywood money grabbing, and at the same time wrecking a tradition of film-making: James Bond in Quantum Of Solace, firstly, what's up with the title, if the film wasn't already terrible for being a 2 hour advert, and incorporating enough explosions and special effects to fund the whole 2012 Olympics.Now, not everyone will agree with me and recently it has become a piece of TV. And when News Stations like BBC News are reporting on it more than once or twice every hour and probably when it officially happens will become closer to E! than BBC.
The only good thing that has become of the Oscars has been Mark Kermode getting a lot of TV 
time on the BBC, and I think that he is one of the best reporters and film critics in this country and he has work all year round as well as the award season.
And with the fake released results on the internet earlier this week just added to the hype, I wouldn't be surprised if they did for more publicity. I might see who won the awards because it will be impossible to not to hear any of the results. But it is hard to connect and be disappointed or happy by the results, if you understand what I mean. And I'm sure that someone will try to use the results of the Oscars tomorrow as "small-talk" and epically fail, because what can you say other than: "Oh Yeah, I heard about that" and maybe "I was going to watch it but it was too late to waste all that sleep over". Simple-As.
Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has said that the rate of repossessions has risen by 54% to 40,000 reposssessions. They have also said that it rise to 75,000 by the end of this year. To be honest, 40,000 doesn't sound like that much, but in an ideal year it will be 0; the economic situtation has hit everyone up and down the country and is starting to show its face now. The rate of repossessions has been rising since it hit a two decade low in 2003/2004, and now is expected to serpass that two decade high from 1991, which was at 75,000 homes.
These figures are for England and Wales. And Wales was the least hit with only a 1% rise (to 1,770) and the worst hit was the South West with a 20% rise (with 2,378 repossessions in total). And all the other areas of England are very high as well, showing that anyone can be hit by this, from former bankers to the self-employed, money can be hard to come by in these troubled times.
This week has been of the worst weeks in recent history for Knife Crime in London, and to be honest the rest of the country, with a taxi driver being robbed at knife point in Northamptonshire on Thursday and two other knife attacks in North and East London on Thursday night. The most recent of these was during the Friday rush hour on Westminster Bridge.
And only in the early ours of today 3 people where injured outside a pub in Greenwich as a gunman shot randomly. On Friday in Hackney 3 other people where injured after being shot at, the event was at about ten to ten, two 17 year olds, and one 18 year old where taken to hospital with non life threatening injuries. As a resident a of the capital, I find that (youth) crime is a thing that is that is highlighted a lot and adds to the stereotype of certain areas and people in the capital, and personally it has added to what I think about people. It happens with everyone that people are stereotyped into groups; be that by age groups, racial groups, or just on where they live.
Crime rates are said to be going the right way by the Met, yet the evidence of the last couple of days haven't shown that, and this is the perfect however not best time to add this as a comment, it always happens with many people obsessed with figures throughout anything directly linked with the government always say. To any normal, common sensed person you would think about the here and now, not how this adds ups and increases or decreases percentages year-by-year.
And Overall the chain of crime goes from knifes up to guns and more extreme measures, London soon could become like a British Los Angeles or North Philadelphia.
Now...Jade Goody just over a week ago was told that she had weeks to live and 
since that time her ever move has been documented by every piece of media on this earth. And some reporting that you expect from the Daily Star you see on the BBC News, with her movements and actions tracked, but obviously adding comment by respected people, Gordon Brown, with his second comment, somehow (on his second comment) got her name wrong "Jane Goody".
Ever since the start of all this you would expect some sort "withdraw" (for want of a better word) for the internal media, I mean this is the time that you show some respect. But I have to be fair, the way she lived her life, it was the nature of the beast, you live your life in the open, your gonna live every waking moment in the open.
I hope that everything goes well for Jade with her wedding on Sunday and well played but the Ministry of Defense for letting her to be husband, Jack Tweed to stay with her on her wedding night, but apparently it's not unusual and why would it be, in this situation you would have to be heartless to not allow anything like that.
Even writing this blog I can see that I am myself part of the media's view and reporting on the events and no-one wants to be part of that and this will be the only thing I say on this, you know that's like. Only today I went to my first funeral and at any level death isn't something you want to shine on in a way that today's media seem to be doing.
Also in news Sir Allan Stanford (the only American ever to be knighted, due to his citizenship in Antigua and Barbuda) because of being part of fraud investigations in the states, over $8 million, yes $8 million in the fraud over certificate of deposits, he was missing over the first couple of days when this was released and in the end was found by the FBI (what a cool way to go, you can just imagine it, anyway) on behalf on the SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission). It turned out that he had been a dodgy case for quiet a while.
The people who are getting the real backlash for this over here is the ECB and ever since Sir Allan landing his helicopter at Lord's and the ECB finally getting in bed with him, people have been a bit nervous about all this was going, with the 20 million dollar game and the push and influence his money has had in Cricket in England really not helping (but now the England and Wales Cricket Board have broken all ties with him)... Heads will role.
If it was bad for the ECB they should spare a thought all the people who use his airlines and have money in his banks in the West Indies and Latin America who have been withdrawing quicker than every single former customer of Northern Rock were. Interesting that, actually, because Robert Peston had a piece on news night during the week he week up to (Not so)Newcastle and meet some people his report on them going down effected, it was posted on his blog, you can see the video here. And Now Stanford's Banks are being seized and suspended of trading throughout the Caribbean and South America, if the world economy wasn't bad enough, Sir Allan has help make a hash of it again, well done, shows you never to trust bankers in the world of sport (of even in banking for that matter).
