Happy Second Birthday, Blog

21 June 2007 Rob Buckley TMINE 16 Comments

Happy Birthday, The Medium is Not Enough. Yes, two years ago (sort of, subject to blog migration, blog splitting, blog reunions, etc), this blog emerged into the light of the Internet with its first two posts: a preview of the still-popular Prison Break, the not-unpopular Supernatural and the still-unseen Global Frequency; and tedious cruft about The Omega Factor (which I’m still just about to write a review of, amazingly enough).

Oddly enough, that paragraph, more or less, was how I greeted the blog’s first birthday and it’s still true. Plus ça change…

In our second year, what have I discovered?

  1. Y’all are still kind of interested in David Tennant and Doctor Who, but less by Torchwood
  2. Time may march on but before, during and after every episode of The F-Word, everyone will be dying to know who wrote the theme tune
  3. The “What I learned/learnt from last week’s television” strand was a bad idea, since I didn’t learn enough, it turned out
  4. People really like having a bullet-pointed list of media news items each morning
  5. I can never get people’s names right. Actually, that’s not new

We’ve also launched The Carusometer, wide-eyed and blinking behind its dark-as-night sunglasses, onto an unsuspecting world. Will it ever be the same? Not by the time the “full season” Carusometer arrives, it won’t.

I’d like to say a great big thank you again to Anna, Holyhoses Rob, Jason, Lisa, Marie, Matt, Rosby, Scott, Stu and all those who lurkers who have stayed with me since year one. I’d also like to thank the new arrivals – Iko, Poly, Mark, espedair, Linda, cindylover1969, Fraser, Kev, Craig, Lesley, Jonathan, Phoenix – for making the blog even more fun this year, and for all the lurkers out there (you know who you are) for elevating my visitor stats to the point where I don’t feel humiliated every day. All I can do is try my best to keep you all entertained and hope you stick around.

Thanks for sticking with me!

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  • Rob Buckley

    I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.

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