Hackt!

Hackt? Okay, we were hacked. Some IT-savvy foe of our television channels (an unhappy viewer?) caused our email server to crash and years of correspondence have as a result vanished into thin air.

The result, 24 hours of frustration. And then another 24 of anger due to the SysAdmin who, while reconnecting me to the resuscitated mail server, managed to delete the profile I've been using on my PC!

Which explains why I feel a bit bitchy about Joost.

And, yes, juiced is what I was last night, in anticipation of the chore of recovering bookmarks, re-entering stored passwords, etc. etc.

So Joost is the name under which The Venice Project will launch. And it's being talked up all over the place, here in MediaGuardian, here by the Beeb. But why, oh why, do we have to have another instance of street-cred, rad 'n' bad, high-fiving branding?

Reading Chris Anderson is always reassuring. On the topic of 'Long Tail' movie-making he is entirely relevant in the DIY media context.

And on GuardianUnlimited's ArtsBlog Ben Marshall underlines just how far the DIYers have come in an amazingly short space of time.

Okay, finisht for today!