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Listed below are comments made by Robert Andrews between Friday, 18th April 2008 and Thursday, 23rd July 2009.

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The spinning of Spinvox 09:58am on 23 Jul 2009 Interview: Daniel Doulton, Co-Founder, Spinvox: Carrier Plans May Need Further Funding (Jul 2) - http://moconews.net/article/419-interview-daniel-doulton-co-founder-spinvox-carrier-plans-may-need-furt/

SpinVox Paying Staff In Stock To Save On Costs (Jul 13) - http://paidcontent.co.uk/article/419-spinvox-paying-staff-in-stock-to-save-on-costs/

Interview: Christina Domecq, CEO, Spinvox (Pt 1): Managing Through The Crunch (Jul 20) - http://paidcontent.co.uk/article/419-interview-christina-domecq-ceo-spinvox-pt-1-managing-through-the-crunch/

Interview: Christina Domecq, CEO, Spinvox (Pt 2): Cashflow-Positive In 90 Days (Jul 22) - http://paidcontent.co.uk/article/419-interview-christina-domecq-ceo-spinvox-pt-2-cashflow-positive-in-90-day/
Piracy: Did someone blink? 12:37pm on 15 Jun 2009 Rory - Virgin may not be doing the monitoring, but the label will - http://www.paidcontent.co.uk/entry/419-virgin-doing-unlimited-music-package-will-suspend-illegal-downloaders/
BBC iPlayer goes HD, adds higher quality streams, releases iPlayer Desktop out of Labs 4:59pm on 20 Apr 2009 Which programmes are downloadable in Windows Media Video? Only a few? I guess this uses built-in Windows Media DRM?
Renaming Web 2.0 11:00am on 03 Apr 2009 Let's stop trying to apply version numbers to the web. It's *one* web and always will be - a platform that's constantly evolving for the iterations upon it.
iPlayer Day: Firing the starting pistol 09:16am on 12 Dec 2008 OMG, you're using Blip.tv?
EMP not good enough for ya? ;)
Which way to the mobile web? 11:46am on 30 Sep 2008 For sure. Nevermind WiFi (range too small, too expensive), nevermind WiMax (consider the roll-out costs) - the telcos shall inherit the connectivity earth. No infrastructure necessary - they already have a largely ubiquitous network that's been getting quicker and quicker, with only technology updates required. They hold all the cards. SIMs with everything.
In defence of Alistair Darling 4:08pm on 03 Sep 2008 I'm so glad someone has finally brought some sense to this.

I appreciated the chancellor's honesty...

But politics correspondents (not "political" - the last thing I want is a "political" correspondent) have such a skewed sense of the way they should cover politics, they could only see the story from the individual actors' perspectives...

In what universe is it proper that we *expect* that, by being open and honest, a politician has actually "gaffed"? In the universe of the political correspondent, which is so miserably lined with the claustrophobia of "perceptions" and "briefings" that said correspondents can usually only report political doings with an emphasis on machinations, who's up, who's down and who's for the chop.

I'm just an ordinary voter (and journalist), but it seems to me that our politics correspondents do our country a disservice by engendering in the electorate an unhealthy mistrust of politicians' actions. We appear to have reached a point where we cannot judge an occurrence merely on face value - in the game of politics journalism (and I have little doubt that it is just a macho game for many such correspondents), there must always be something *more*.

Well I think they've got it wrong this time. And I request an end to the kind of politics reporting that automatically expects the worst of an honestly-motivated political statements. I call for all those politics reporters who are *too close* to politics itself, all those who have ambitions to cross over in to politics PR, all those neglecting the real issues in favour of the tawdry internal character assessments... to be banished henceforth.
Not quite what we thought 3:35pm on 13 Aug 2008 I watched the whole thing live - I never for a moment thought the fireworks were either genuine or live, and I always thought that girl was too cute to be true.

But these cases were just a small percentage of the overall event and don't detract at all from the spendour of the ceremony as a whole.
The BBC Sound Index 3:13pm on 20 May 2008 I don't think freeing the data has much to do with this one. The data isn't Auntie's in the first place. She (via IBM) is just running some maths on other sites' data.
Being Digital 10:40am on 18 Apr 2008 Yeah, the lessons of that book are enduring.

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