First Blog Post on the Sony PSP

Sometimes you just have to thank Ebay - winning an auction for a Sony Playstation Portable for a ridiculously low price all thanks to a main auction picture that made the device look like it had a smashed screen. As you can see, it quite clearly isn’t.

So the trip to the USA now has some [...]

Coldplay x 1,000,000,000

The (american) billionth track sold via iTunes Music Store was Coldplay. Not that I’m suggesting anything, but that’s mighty handy… and pretty much sums up the problem with modern music.

“March Preview” and “Time O’Reilly and Rael Dornfest” Tech Conf Podcasts Available

And so it begins (all link love to TPN Tech Conf greatly appreciated)…

Tech Conf Show #001 previews the March madness of BarCampLA, Etech, SXSW and Mix06. I’m joined by Nicole Simon, who’ll be sharing hosting duties with me during BarCamp and Etech.
Tech Conf Show #002 is a conference call with Tim O’Reilly and Rael [...]

Copyright, Leeching, Weblogs Inc and YouTube

An interesting difference of viewpoints on the NBC DMCA takedown notice handed to YouTube from Xeni Jardin of Boing Boing, and Jason Calacanis of Weblogs Inc.
Jardin casually skips over the fact that YouTube, as a host, is breaking copyright. Irrespective of personal views held on copyright, YouTube is breaking the law. And while Boing Boing [...]

Ricky, Ricky, Ricky… Podcasting ‘Legend’ Gervais Jumps The Shark

Trumped as the biggest UK Podcast by a comedian, the Ricky Gervais Podast did very well for The Guardian newspaper, and the 13 episodes are still freely available around the internt. With one of the top podcast in iTunes, and about three million downloads, Gervais certainly rose very quickly thanks to his star name, UK [...]

TPN Tech Conference Channel Comes Alive

You’ve all been reading online here the fun in organising the March USA trip round BarCamp LA, Etech, SXSW and Mix06… now it’s time to put it into practice. Just posted the following on the TPN Tech Conference Blog…
So, it’s time to kick the tyres on the Air Miles account, prime the blog, get the [...]

Ewan’s Guide To Surviving Long Haul

Not that I’m an expert in any way, but pulling an average of three return transatlantic flights a year (plus a number of internal flights in the UK and USA) I’ve built up my own personal notes on how to survive long haul flights. These all work for me, hopefully it should give you some [...]

iWhoring The Podcast Network on iTunes

This single screenshot of the current front page of the iTunes Music Store (podcast section) should explain why I’m happy. Yes, not only can I stand up in a room and say “Hello, my name is Ewan Spence and I make money from podcasting,” I can now add “and I can get a reply from [...]

My Year Of Podcasting

Okay so I missed writing this post on the exact one-year anniversary of my first public podcast, but given that the date of that first show was the 14th of February, I’m going to simply say I was busy.
That first show was part of the short lived “The Mobile Show.” While it proved a great [...]

Sometimes The Gamble Pays Off - America Here I Come

I’ve talked about the planning for the March USA trip previously on the blog. The original impetus was to get to O’Reilly’s Emerging Technology Conference. This grew into doing a bit of podcasting at Etech. And that in turn morphed into The Podcast Network becoming a Media Sponsor for Etech. Now the cost of transatlantic [...]

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