The LA Times has an interesting editorial on how AOL was the savior of the ‘Live 8’ concerts for many people in the UK. MTV it seems concentrated in Philly rather than london, and was running the same stuff on MTV and VH1, and then just showing rubbish.

Stuff like showing Bono introduce the song ONE, but then not actually show it. Stuff like that. The commentator loved how AOL would also say what was on the other streams so he needed to make choices between which acts to see. What cable TV should be without all the overt advertising.

Here in Australia there was advertising but not all that much thankfully. And they put the adverts into the correct places. They did delay the parts by probably 30 minutes or so just to, but that is OK if they need to fit things in.

Today I will be taking a break from a lot of stuff. Not sure exactly what I will be doing, apart from taking a break.