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I was lucky enough to get a study trip to the World Cup. I have just spent 3 days in Munich, visiting the main technology locations and the International Broadcast Centre (IBC). The IBC is stunning – the best I have ever seen. I’ll post a few photos just now. FIFA run a very tight ship. Big thanks to Dick Wiles from Eurotech Global Sports for such an excellent trip 🙂

Mind you, DRM hovers all over the broadcasting of such events. Interestingly, on the way out to Munich, I bumped into Cory Doctorow at the airport. Cory is leaving London and heading out to LA to do a Fulbright Scholarship on DRM. I asked him if he wanted to come and talk to LOCOG about DRM and he said he’d think about it. If he did, it would no doubt place sports broadcast rights in an interesting space up against emerging technologies. Broadcast rights holders of course fall naturally into the camp opposing net neutrality. One to follow closely.

Just had responses back to an ITT we issued for telecoms consultancy. The quality of the responses is generally high which is great. Now the difficult process of deciding who we get for this. Need to be rigorous and as objective as possible. Hope it all works out. I wonder if any of the respondents will find this blog? Highly unlikely! It lurks in an obscure backwater of the web.

Speaking of backwaters, the documentary about the Mississippi backwaters and a man called Kenny Salwey, who lives in them, was excellent. I found a radio show about the programme. I thought the cinematography was outstanding. Kenny’s is a life that holds much appeal but it must be incredibly hard.