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How To Incentivise Your Audience to Skip Podcast Ads
If you publish a podcast, your podcast may well take advertising. And if it does take advertising, you probably want people to actually listen to the ads. Your audience listening to podcast ads increases the likelihood of products being sold, and therefore the advertiser coming back to buy more advertising. If your podcast doesn’t increase…
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Olympic Stadium and Velodrome
At the weekend, I was lucky enough to get along to a day of the UCI Track World Cup series in the new Olympic Velodrome as part of the London Prepares series. Lots of photos to come. But in the meantime, the buildings looked stunning – the velodrome in particular.
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Promise TV
[I wrote this on Google+, but decided it should probably exist, in a revised version, here too] I remember hearing about Promise TV several years ago at Open Tech 2005, so it’s nice to see that there’s a real product now available to buy. In essence they’ve built a Freeview recorder that records every programme…
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Recent Films
I’ve spent a while away from the cinema recently, but the “award season” means that I have to face my hatred of multiplexes and get out to see a few films. Although with the exception of one film, I saw these films in somewhat nicer confines of Curzon and BFI cinemas. I really liked The…
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More Mirror Box Photos
Somewhat inspired by the awesome Infinity Mirrored Room created by Yayoi Kusama especially for her wonderful retrospective exhibition that’s just opened at Tate Modern, I went out and bought a cheap “sound sensor” light at Maplin. And I used this to have another session using my mirror box. A few more photos are below. I’d…
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When Awards Ignore Social Media
As I type, BBC1’s coverage of the BAFTA awards has just started on BBC1. We have Stephen Fry hosting again this year. The show started at 9pm. But here’s the thing. I already know many of the winners. Or at least, it’s not hard for me to find out. If I wander over to my…
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Curious Pricing
We all know that if we buy bigger packs of products, we tend to save money. But in the strange world of confectionary, that’s not always the case. I was in Waitrose earlier, and it being February, there are clearly lots of Cadbury Creme eggs about. But the pricing was slightly odd. I could buy…
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RAJAR Q4 2011
The last quarter of 2011’s UK radio listening is out now, and the big news is that RAJAR has a new logo (see above) – Audio Measurement! OK, there’s some other news too. So let’s run through the highlights and lowlights from my perspective. First up is that radio listening overall is down a bit.…
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January Books
Here’s a vaguely accurate summary of the books I’ve read this month. An attempt, to some extent, to get me to read more. I can’t tell you how many books I have “backed up”… A Card From Angela Carter is an unusual thing. For starters, it’s due to be Radio 4’s Book of the Week…
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Following the US Election in the UK
As the US gets into the swing of things in 2012, the contest between Republicans to become the candidate who will fight it out with Barack Obama gets more intense with each week. The best place to follow the ups and downs of the electoral combat would be on The Daily Show, and its sister…
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Apple and its Suppliers
Apple has just announced some staggering profits. $13bn in the last three months alone. Once again, it’s close to being the most valuable company on the planet. Earlier this week, the New York Times published this devastating report on Apple’s suppliers, including Foxconn, and the pressures it puts to bear on its employees. Then there’s…
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Borgen
With two series of The Killing out the way, it’s time to move on to the next big Danish TV drama. And that would be Borgen. I say “move on to” it, but as of yesterday we’re eight episodes into the first ten part series. According to Wikipedia, Borgen is the nickname of the Christianborg…
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New York 1986
I’ve been scanning in some old prints of my first visit to New York. A selection are viewable on Flickr. Not perhaps the greatest set of photos ever, and in retrospect it’d have been better if a 16 year old me had taken some photos that actually included a few New Yorkers in the photos.…
Hadrian’s Wall
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