Get Over It… Podcasting Is No Different To Any Other Media

Why do we need to have a community of podcasters?
Simple question, let’s have an answer. Because I’m looking around and I don’t see a carefree social group of newspaper editors anywhere on the internet. I can’t see the heady memorable days of Robert Maxwell and Rupert Murdoch organising cheery get-togethers in London bars to discuss [...]

Thoughts on Last.FM Going To CBS

The big Web 2.0 news of the day is pretty obvious – the purchase of Last.FM by CBS for $280 million. There’s been a huge amount of talk and controversy around the blogosphere on this, but on reflection I think it’s great for the internet.

First of all, a lot of people are commenting that the [...]

It’s Time To Not Mention A High Def Number Again

Previously in the whole trying to stop the pacific basin filling by using a thimble…
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I Have No Idea What I’ll Be Doing at Hackday London on June 16-17

A big heads up, and a little bit of head-scratching from me now. Tom Coates (if you look up “jolly nice chap” in the Oxford English Dictionary I’m sure you’d see his picture) let me know that I’ve been lucky enough to be invited to the upcoming Yahoo Hack-Day

The aim of the event is to [...]

More Chat, More Music, More Adrenalin; The Leith FM Wednesday Lunchtime Show

Update 2: Off air, I’ll do a little report when I get home. Short summary is it went pretty well.
Update: On air now – tune into the stream, and pop me a skype!
Yes it’s the weekly heads up to you all – those of you in Edinburgh can tune in to 98.8FM for the Wednesday [...]

You Have The Freedom… to Watch What We Tell You

Yes there may be a lot of us who understand the whole problem of net neutrality, and the slow diminishing of human rights in the UK, and that complain about cpyright extension, and ‘friendly atmosphere’ interviews before you get a passport, but until this stuff jumps up and bites people, you’re not going to get [...]

All Your Music are Belong To Us – The Digital Music Overlords

Let’s get something straight. Just because someone writes a music track, shouldn’t mean that some faceless organisation in another part of the world can decide what I do with the rights on this track. And if the law allows this then something is seriously screwed up (hint: follow the money, because it is). This has [...]

How Do You Listen To Yours? Podcast, That Is.

What is the best device to listen to podcasts on? A simple question you might think, but is the answer obvious? Well, as with most things, there is no one correct answer that will fit everyone, but I do listen to a fair few podcasts (can’t think why…) and I have found the perfect podcast [...]

Game Theory and Picking Up a Recycled Bike in Edinburgh

So Saturday morning saw me lucky enough to pick up a recycled second-hand bike from The Bike Station, a charity project in Edinburgh that “…accepts donated bikes from members of the public and recycles them for use by priority groups of people such as the long term unemployed, those who have been homeless and [...]

Moo Cards Arrived

Well, I received my latest little white box that seems to have captured the Web 2.0 crowd’s imagination. Yes, Moo Cards, the tiny business cards that everyone has ritualised have arrived with me. Not that they’ll replace my regular card (after all, I still have the best part of two thousand of them after a [...]

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