Anthony Dhanendran
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- Writer, editor and website administratorOnline Media | London, United Kingdom, GBSummaryExperienced journalist and website editor.
I edited and managed a high-profile editorial website which was updated several times a day. I am experienced in website and digital analytics, search engine management and content strategy, and have overseen targeted campaigns that increased page impressions and reader involvement, based upon analytics data. I have significant experience with Webtrends and Google Analytics, I am a Professional Member of the Web Analytics Association and I have signed up to the WAA Code of Ethics.Specialties: Writing, editing, research, website management, website analyticsAdditional Information-
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Tweets
- Fascinating football graphics http://t.co/fqCTlkgp - club crests quiz (http://t.co/aoU0BANv) good, as is http://t.co/oXDl5PDQ
- Daybreak viewers confused by presence of ITV1+1 http://t.co/SK89Ea4Z (but ITV's social media people dealing with it admirably)
- @Vibroseis Thanks - great stuff.
- @Vibroseis That's a fascinating blog post - enjoyed the old pics of you from your website as well.
- @allpointsnorth more seriously, though, probably just some kid. Hotmail/WL always seems to be wide open to this sort of thing.
- @allpointsnorth just yesterday the NYT said Iran was planning to attack the west. Maybe you're the attack vector?
- @allpointsnorth Glad it's sorted. The sending IP address resolved to Iran, in case you're interested.
- Having lunch next to four middle-aged marketing guys eagerly discussing their new 'D-to-C social commerce business'. It's buzzword central.
- @allpointsnorth Has your email account been hacked? Just got what appears to be spam from it.
- @jtemperton Haha. Oh dear. Has he got a drive for next year yet, or is that now out of the window?
- @jamesofwalsh In EKJC you start off jumping barrels on a pedal-bike: have to earn the right to use motorcycles http://t.co/eM53uJvS
- @jamesofwalsh Eddie Kidd (http://t.co/4cke3vE9). Also BMX games from http://t.co/Ewld0Y0Q to http://t.co/28GDeZgL
- From Computeractive's blog, a nice reminiscence on a former colleague of mine, Nick Palmer, who's left to go freelance http://t.co/oTemukIj
- @iandeeley You may be right.
- I think the Obs (http://t.co/WBIsciyd) missed the point about Apple's cash reserves. Here's what it does with its money http://t.co/CzAFPc0X
- Meanwhile, ESPN says it's going to start putting mobile users first - http://t.co/tQWegcBz - very interesting idea, especially if done well.
- "It becomes untenable to sell [mobile users as] mutually exclusive from desktop users," http://t.co/RDK133RV - @currybet on Mail vs NYTimes
- Misconceptions about iOS multitasking, or "What those icons at the bottom of your iPhone really mean" by @fraserspeirs http://t.co/tXenX3PF
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Recent Tracks
- Love Reign O'er Me by The Who
- Buffalo Stance (12'' version) by Neneh Cherry
- Drop The Pilot by Joan Armatrading
- Raw Hide by The Blues Brothers
- The Obvious Child by Paul Simon
- Another Nail In My Heart by Squeeze
- Minnie The Moocher by Cab Calloway
- The Fly by U2
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Posts
- Mar 21, 11
The Guardian is reporting that the BBC is to receive a ‘significant’ amount of money from the US government’s State Department for the World Service.
It’s a fascinating deal, given that until now the British government, through the FCO, has funded the World Service fully. A recent 16 per cent cut in the grant has led to 650 job cuts and the BBC recently ‘volunteered’ to fund the World Service itself from 2014 so that it’s going to be paid for entirely by license fee-payers in the UK.
That’s got to be a bad idea. The idea behind the FCO funding (which incidentally left editorial judgement to the BBC) was that the World Service promotes British culture and values abroad. It’s something I’m happy to support but it’s entirely fair for license fee-payers here to ask why they should have to pay for such things.
The World Service is the best thing about British broadcasting. It’s informative, erudite and entertaining, and it would be a great shame to lose it. If the American money allows it to continue doing what it does, and without becoming like the turgid Voice of America, that ought to be a good thing.
- Mar 20, 11
I wrote this reminiscence of Queen’s fourth album back in 2002 for the Pennyblackmusic website. I’m reposting it partly because I need something to put on this blog and partly because it’s now 40 years since the band formed. A recent exhibition, Stormtroopers in Stilettos, was on show recently in east London and is to go on tour later in the year.
There was a time when Queen were just another band. This was before the hype, the coke, the helicopters, the enormo-gigs, the controversial sexuality and the end. Before all that happened, there was the music. ‘A Night at the Opera’ was their fourth album, and by the time of its release in December 1975 the band had picked up a reputation as solid glam rockers. Expectation was building after their previous album, ‘Sheer Heart Attack’, had climbed to number 2 in the charts, and expectations were sated with the release of the ridiculous first single from the new album, ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’.
But that’s not really a good place to start. It’s overblown, overplayed and much hated. But let’s take it in context. I’m still not sure whether it was good fortune or misfortune to have been just entering the world of music at the point that Freddie Mercury died. When you’re at that stage your tastes are largely dictated by the charts and what everyone else your age is into, and at that point Queen were back at number 1 with the re-released ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ and the entire class (even the really cool kids) was listening to Queen.
And so to the album. The music is of a uniformly high quality, but it flits and skips from four-on-the-floor rock to odd folk-country, classical balladry and out-and-out-weirdness. You can’t fault the quality of the songwriting, as you might expect from a band on their fourth album, and in fact their third in eighteen months.
‘Death on Two Legs (Dedicated to…’, which opens the batting, is one of the best vitriolic hate-songs to be found anywhere, and showcases some of Freddie’s best lyrics to date, alongside a formidable guitar, bass and drum line. The album is entirely without track spacing, and so this venomous rant jumps straight into a very short old-style close harmony number, followed by the gloriously silly ‘I’m In Love With My Car’, which is drummer Roger Taylor’s ode to his, er, car. Which he loves, so much so that the song was deemed worthy to be the b-side of that monster opening single.
There’s plenty of folklore on this album, whether it’s the twenties homage of ‘Lazing on a Sunday Afternoon’ and ‘Seaside Rendezvous’ or the transplanted sea-shanty of Brian May’s ”39′. ‘Sweet Lady’ and the second single ‘You’re My Best Friend’ seem fairly nondescript set against the rest of the album, but are still fine songs.
It’s not until we flip the record over that we realise that it has all just been a prelude to the four (and a half) titans herein. ‘The Prophet’s Song’ dwarfs ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ in scope, being an epic rock folk tale of storms and death and wise men, and its 145 second a cappella harmony section has to be heard to be believed. The string madness outro segues into the truly beautiful ‘Love of My Life’, a hurt and sorry tale of love gone wrong set to sparing and sympathetic instrumentation.
The final three tracks on the album are ‘Good Company’, another old fashioned ditty from May ;’Bohemian Rhapsody’, which needs nothing further said about it, other than that it somehow fits here at the (almost) end of this headcase of an album, and the now famous Queen rendition of the National Anthem, which is tame by today’s standards, but must have sounded positively rebellious 27 years ago.
It’s carried all along by a solid band who really work well together (and did so in an unchanged line-up for the next sixteen years), pinned to Freddie Mercury’s unique voice and range. It’s not my favourite album. To pick just one out of so many greats is a daunting concept. But it is a truly great album, and it’s one which any music lover should own. The breadth of material is astonishing and even if you can’t abide the bombast of the later years the raw emotion still shines through here. It’s camp and it’s bloody silly, but it’s hard to resist falling under the spell.
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Posts
- Feb 11, 12
We ask why ebooks readers have no embedded fonts or easily accessible footnotes and how typographical errors not in the original book appear
- Jan 13, 12
Home power consumption monitoring made easy
- Jan 11, 12
Panasonic's latest interchangeable-lens compact is smaller and neater than its predecessor
- Dec 31, 11
Reflections on leaving Computeractive after nearly eight years
- Dec 19, 11
A clever device for keeping tabs on your PC
- Dec 16, 11
If you're used to expressing your views freely in the pub, you need to take care when sharing those same views on Facebook or forums. We explain why
- Dec 15, 11
Spotify rival offers three months trial for 99p but after that prices match competitor services
- Dec 02, 11
Improve data transfer speeds for your desktop PC
- Dec 02, 11
In 2012 the number of generic top-level domain names will be increased so that almost any word can be used as the final part of an internet address
- Nov 29, 11
Listen to your phone or computer through the hi-fi
- Nov 28, 11
Boost your computer's file transfer speed
- Nov 22, 11
Flexible portable digital and FM radio with 'listen later' feature
- Nov 18, 11
We look at some of the hardware and software that can make a difference to a student's life at college
- Nov 16, 11
Add storage space to an iPhone or iPad–
- Nov 15, 11
A large, powerful laptop with innovative graphics
- Nov 15, 11
Speedy and portable external disk
- Nov 11, 11
Control all your entertainment devices more effectively
- Nov 07, 11
There are calls for the blocking of mobile phones and social networks during times of civil disobedience. We look at the pros and cons of taking this action
- Nov 02, 11
A tablet with a difference: a built-in keyboard
