Interview by Carolyne Ellis 

My new media

Danny Kelly, publishing director of 365corp.com.
  
  


Favourite sites? Football 365.com is my favourite football site, but that's one of our own. The other sites I go to tend to reflect my own interests. One is old pop music, so I recommend expectingrain.com, an unbelievably intense resource about Bob Dylan, that runs around 12 news stories a day about him. I also recommend woolyrockstars.com, where you can buy knitted models of Jimmy Hendrix, Dylan and the Beatles. eBay goes without saying. We love eBay.

Latest online purchase? I purchase a lot of stuff online, all to feed my sad obsessions. I last bought: a poster advertising a Duke Ellington concert, from eBay; an Evening Standard billboard announcing the death of Marc Bolan, and some football programmes. That's all true.

Most recent technological faux pas? I cannot operate my new Sony video, which I've had for a year and a half. That's true as well.

Main news sources on web? For general news I'm afraid I still use television. I risk the derision of small children in the streets by still being a fan of the BBC.

Most persistent spam emailer? I do not regard anything as spam. I think it's communication, I think it's marketing. I like junk mail and I like spam, and this is the truth. I can sort out useful pizza companies and minicab firms from useless Franklin mint material in a nanosecond.

Time spent on web? I spend 10 hours a day on the web, between my work and my recreation.

Next boo.com/clickmango? Anything that was launched to be puffed up, then sold on to some mug.

Least useful site/s on web? The official sites of big organisations like Uefa and the IOC. These tend to be hi-tech arse-covering operations by people who don't want the public to know anything about their activities. That is the opposite of what the internet is good at.

Most useful site? Those which join together people who have a shared passion but are geographically disparate.

What screensaver do you use? It's of a band called MC5, a fantastic group. It's the opening section of their song, Kick Out The Jams. That and the opening speech from Taxi Driver are how I motivate myself in the morning.

Most irritating thing about the web? That there's not enough rubbish on it.

Do you bother with old media? I love the old media. I love television, radio, newspapers, magazines and cinema. I would love video if I could get the fucking thing to work.

 

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