Looking Back At This Year’s Edinburgh Fringe Podcast

It’s now been a few weeks since the end of the Edinburgh Festival, and I have (finally) caught up on enough sleep to look back on the madness that is the Edinburgh Fringe Podcast (from The Stage and The Podcast Network – sorry but after a month the full tag line is a pavlovian reaction.
And […]

Personal thoughts on this year’s Blog World Expo

As I’ve mentioned before, I couldn’t make the August ‘blog conference in Las Vegas,’ namely Tim Bourquin’s New Media Expo, due to commitments for the Edinburgh Fringe, but the second year of Rick Calvert’s Blog World Expo was on my radar as a potential gig to go to. Thanks to some work comissioned to report […]

Blog World Expo Report - The Professional View (via BBC News)

I’ll be doing a more personal look from my time at last weekend’s Blog World Expo in the next few days, but I’ve (a) got some catching up to do after spending a carbon-footprint decadant long weekend in Las Vegas and (b) the paying gigs come first. In the meantime you can get my professional […]

I’m Speaking at Le Web (when you’re all listening to The Doctor)

No sooner is one trip over, than the planning for the next one starts. Thanks to some planning over the summer, I was already looking at a December’s trip to attend Le Web 2008 was already in the final stages. Loic and Geraldine have announced this year’s program, although it’s always worth pointing out that […]

Off To Las Vegas and BlogWorldExpo

I’m writing this in the American Airlines Lounge at Heathrow, after the first leg of the trip to Las Vegas. Edinburgh to Heathrow just proves Terminal 5, and specifically transfers from T5 to T3 (where the American flights are) is pretty hellish, and much worse than T1 to T3 ever was (and I have to […]

How The BBC Should Change Eurovision

At the end of last month, after I made a flurry of posts regarding the perceptions of the Eurovision Song Contest (and negating each one of them), The Stage approached me to ask if I could do a column based around a simple question… “[what should the BBC] do to improve the competition’s standing (and […]

How To Fix Eurovision

I love the unintended double meaning in this blog post from Daniel Sullivan. With the title ‘Eurovision to be Fixed,’ he points out his delight at the re-introduction of the jury vote. Of course, with perhaps only eight people in the jury to influence, rather than a whole country voting on the phon, doesn’t this […]

Picture of the Day - Doctor Who Muppets

Paul Cornell is one of the writers on the latest season of Doctor Who (he does other stuff as well), and his blog is always a nice read. But part of his post today, and the accompanying picture, is gorgoeous.
And I was delighted to encounter, at the weekend, these puppets, made and operated by Julia […]

Comparing Live Streaming Sites Qik and Flixwagon

Over on All About Symbian this morning is a lengthy article comparing two of the services that let you stream live video from your smartphone to the world, namely Qik vs Flixwagon. Rather than quote the article (which I normally do), here’s my thoughts on both of them…
Flixwagon…

Qik…

Oh and why no Kyte.tv? Simple really, their […]

Jury Voting Returns To The Eurovision Song Contest

Interesting decisions from the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) from their meeting in Moscow to discuss the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) 2009. Apart from the almost formality of confirming Russia’s capital as the host city next May, the voting system to decide the winning song will now be made up of a mix of pre-selected juries […]

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