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A herd of Kent dairy cows must be World’s most cultured animals after being treated to their own private performances of Shakespeare’s Merry Wives of Windsor.

The herd of 170 Holsteins, at Chart Sutton near Maidstone, have been listening to selected scenes for the last few months.

Quiz time.

How many videos were watched on YouTube in May this year? Was it 1.4 million? 14 million? Or 140 million?

Actually it’s a trick question. The answer is a mind numbing 14.6 billion. And that’s just the number watched by American residents!

According to figures just released, May was a record month for YouTube with the average visitor watching 100 videos. YouTube now accounts for 43 percent of all video viewed online.

YouTube has just released a new video editor that lets you edit clips from your library of existing video uploads. The new service enables you to edit together separate clips, as well as add or change the background music using YouTube’s commercial AudioSwap library of licensed songs. The features are fairly basic, but nonetheless represent an amazing jump forward in terms of the YouTube offer. You can trim individual clips and then arrange them in a timeline. You can also adjust the audio as a separate track.

The BBC is the neighbour at the end or your garden with a giant leylandii. He smiles at you and is a nice enough bloke. But the problem is his tree. It’s too big. It greedily sucks in nutrients from the soil and blocks out the sunlight. It’s an impressive tree by any standards, but it casts a massive shadow. And in that gloomy, publicly funded shade, other peoples’ plants struggle to get a foot hold. Some wilt and die. For years the community’s been talking about what should be done. Some people want the eylandii to be severely lopped.

The popcorn cost nearly as much as the tickets, but taking the kids to see James Cameron’s movie Avatar in 3D last week really was a terrific experience. The film’s breaking all box office records and it’s easy to see why. In case you haven’t seen it, it’s an amazing 3D spectacle which transports you to an imaginary planet called Pandora.
The 3D is not gimmicky, but engages you, draws you in and makes you feel you’re really there. I certainly felt I was watching something innovative and significant.

(Continued from Part 2).

Rupert Murdoch makes a false distinction between his “expensive and distinguished” reporters, whom he claims create original journalistic content and the evil online “aggregators” who merely “rewrite – at times without attribution” information from other sources.

It’s simply not true. Journalists report news or comment on it, they don’t create news. Today journalists, including Murdoch’s, spend more and more time online “aggregating” their stories.

Russ the builder, who lives in Folkestone, has been doing some work on our house this week. Russ is in his late 50’s and over a cup of tea he told me that his hobby was bee keeping. He began to tell me all about it. I tried to look interested, but sneaked a furtive glance at my watch.
However, what he said next made me spill my tea:
“The internet’s the way forward isn’t it” he said, “So I’m setting up a bee keeping website and I want to put some videos about bee keeping on it”.

Microsoft recently launched its new internet search engine. It had been code-named “Kumo”, but when it went live it was under the name "Bing".
Search engines are becoming more and more important to our lives because of the spread of the internet. When my children want to research something for their homework, they wouldn’t dream of going to the library as I used to do; they type their questions into Google; the World’s most popular engine.
No-one seems to know just how many searches are carried out on Google each day, but it’s thought to be several hundreds of millions – and growing.

The publication of Lord Carter’s long awaited Digital Britain review caused me a problem. I didn’t know quite what to make of it. More specifically I couldn’t think exactly how to describe it succinctly or sum it up.
Years in the making, much anticipated and discussed, Lord Carter of Barnes’ White Paper provoked howls of protest and made front page news for two reasons:

Its proposal to stick a £6 annual tax on our phone bills to help fund high speed broadband infrastructure.

“Will you please get rid of that car”! my friend’s wife begged him. “It’s been sitting on the drive for a year now, you’re never going to get round to fixing it up”.
It was all true. The tatty Citroen 2CV had been rusting away for 12 months outside his house near Maidstone in Kent [UK]. It had been bought as a project car and hadn’t had an MOT for 3 years.
The engine still started easily and it drove OK, but it was very tatty with lots of rusty patches and the chassis looked ominously corroded.