TVLives launches

We've been busy working behind the scenes and are now ready to launch TVLives. Take a look!

It is a database of all manner of people in television from presenters to cameramen; from researchers to actors.

Have a look and if you have suggestions of TV people to add please let us know.

Biogs launches a new section: People in the News

Biogs has launched a new section that will cover people in the news.

Sometimes we will have in-depth coverage and at other times it will be simply a one or two sentence potted profile of someone who is currently prominent in world news coverage.

But objectivity is subjective

With biogs, we try to provide objective factual biographies. Sometimes we allow our views to creep in and we make judgements on the subjects of the biographies. We used to do this more and saw it as a way of circumventing plagiarism but most of our users were simply after the facts and so, by and large, facts is what we give them.

I couldn't resist, however, adding a short sentence to the Abi Titmuss's biography about what I thought of her acting. I had seen a bad review in the FT and I thought I would relay, the surprising to many, judgement that she put in a good performance in the Arthur Miller play Two Way Mirror.

You will see the odd 'brilliant' creep in to our biogs and I think very rarely a 'terrible' but unless we hear otherwise we'll leave the opinions to others (tempting though it is to pipe up) - in any case as Woody Allen says in Love and Death "Objectivity is Subjective"