More Blog Tag - Foreign Blogs You Read

Thanks, Darla… Okay, five blogs I read not from Scotland. Here we go.
1. The Goliath Expedition (currently in Siberia).
When Karl Bushby left the Parachute Regiment in the UK Army, he decided to do something amazing. He decided to go round the world in a series of unbroken footsteps. Starting in 1998 at the southern most [...]

“Is TV Dead?” BBC Podcast featuring Me!

At the recent TV Un-Festival, ably put on by Ian Forrester, Matthew Cashmore and the BBC Backstage team, a 30 minute podcast was recorded on the subject of “Is TV Dead?” Alongside Brian Butterworth (UKFree.tv), Michael Sparks (BBC R&D) and George Wright (BBC Interactive) was a certain Ewan Spence of The Podcast Network…

A lively discussion, [...]

The Radio Times recommends my Edinburgh Fringe Podcast

This week’s issue of The BBC’s Radio Times (UK TV and Radio listings magazine) lists The Edinburgh Fringe Podcast as one of its three podcst choices this week. With a circulation of over one million readers in the UK, that’s a lot of eyes seeing the podcast…
Even if you were there, you can;t have seen [...]

SXSW 2008 Panel Picker, One on One vs Panel Led Discussions

Looking ahead, the SXSW schedule for 2008 is now up for discussion, with the Panel Picker allowing people planning to attend (which includes me) to vote on the hundreds of panels submitted to the organisers. You can work through them, you can search, or stand by for people to point out their favourites (for example [...]

Cameron Sums Up The Podcast Network’s Plans

With the little Blog -winds-light-to-variable over in the US over PodTech (start here), I’ve been having a few people ping me about my thoughts. Firstly though, a historical note from Hugh MacLeod
The Future of Blogging, Gpaing Void
And Cameron goes and beats me to it, and says it a lot better than I ever could.
I’m fascinated [...]

The Mahalo Greenhouse Payments, and a Back of the Envelope Calcualtion

And there’s part two. Jason Calacanis, while on his little trip to London (I suspect we’ll pass each other in Heathrow on Friday on either side of the security theatre barriers), has announced how he and the team behind Mahalo intend to reach the 10,000 ’search’ pages by the end of the year. He’s opening [...]

What’s In A Name? Podcaster; Blogger; Writer; New Media; Hoopy Frood?

After listening to last night’s TPN Rock Live, Eric Rice asks a delightful question; Is He A Podcaster? I’m Confused.
…Ewan Spence, specifically, broadcast The Rock Show live, while also recording it for distribution via automatic downloads for his subscribers (we call that podcasting in these here parts)… When podcasters start getting all hybrid-y on us– [...]

Dear Don Imus, We’ll Hire You!

Don Imus was paid $8 million dollars a year. his show brough in $40 million dollars a year. He’s been fired from his US talk radio show (which was also “webcast” on morning TV). In no way was this because he upset the Media Barons who owned the transmission mechanism (or that he’s good at [...]

Why Stop At A Blogging Code of Conduct?

Can someone stop for a second in all this kerfuffle about a Blogging Code of Conduct and answer me two questions.
1. Why?
After all, Kathy Sierra has said that the code of conduct would not have helped in her case. Which seems to be the case that started Tim O’Reilly investigating and promoting the Code of [...]

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