(not really, I enjoyed it – bit jealous of your mum and her Sky + box though, I want one.)

I have noticed that peopleseem to have a limited attention span and the ability to concentrate is being diminished by the drive to be “entertained”.

Effort seems like a dirty word and although man often looks for the “easy way” he tends to realize that hard work is the only thing that produces anything in the end and that things built slowly endure.

Bryn

Many tweets are laden with #tags that have a function but when they equal more than the tweet content it makes you wonder and it makes the tweet almost unreadable.

I believe the days of megaphone communication are close to an end. I think most people are immediately sceptical of advertising because they are sick of being conned.

Personal recommendation has always been the most powerful form of advertising. You can’t buy it, your product or service must be quality to evoke it.

People need to know it exists in the first place to recommend it and so a happy balance is needed to be a successful advertiser.

By and large the majority of people are unaffected by what is in the media. There might be an event like 9/11 or the “Credit Crunch” that has an impact in their lives but mostly the media contains things that are happening to other people. The world, is something out there, not part of what they are up to and therefore largely irrelevant.

Bryn

Is it because people still need someone in authority to tell them what is important?

Clearly, to run a credible media orgnisation requires considerable resources and yet it is clear that most of the printed media have few staff writers nowadays. They rely on screwing freelancers and lifting material from anywhere they see fit. Often the editor will publish stories that bear little resemblance to what the author had intended. (I speak from exprience ) and what ends up on the page is pure fabrication.

I have a friend who worked as a photographer for AP, he covered the Balkans war and then was given the Champions League as an assignment to help him recover. He photographs fish off the coast of Portugal now because he is sick and tired of his work being misrepresented.

Wharhol claimed that we would all be famous for 5 mins, yet we can all be famous for as long as we can get someone to pay attention to us. It is surely matter of magnetic potency. If what you produce has value, more people are attracted to it.

Most choice equals conflict. How many kinds of toothpast do we need? This *choice* is what is killing the planet, it produces waste on scale that has never been seen before, distracting us from the real issues of the day.

We desperately need a simpler form of living, that will help us focus on what really needs to be done. Adequate food, housing healthcare, education and a job should be the goal of mankind, not more brands.

How many people own a video camera that gathers dust in the cupboard and rarely if ever films anything of value? Yeterday it was the Walkman, now it is the IPod. What a waste of the planets resources!

I am not anti-choice, I am not anti-variety. It seems that variety has always been wanting. People are scared of being unique, they want to fit in. Just look at how young people dress, all wearing the same fashions and if you don’t fit in you will be ridiculed. Variety is frowned upon. Variety, genuine variety is what makes life interesting if you embrace it.

Bryn

I’ve seen people comment about Spotify, but it doesn’t supply anything other than songs you already know. Last.fm may come close, but it doesn’t have all those sessions.

BBC6 Music is the sort of station John Peel might have been proud of.

Where do I tell the BBC to fuck off with their license fee?

I hope Adam and Joe and Guy Garvey can carry on.