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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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Photos with an Olympus Trip
I really don’t use the rather lovely Olympus Trip I bought a few years ago on eBay nearly as much as I should. Here are a few shots I took over a rather dramatic weekend. The full set is here.
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Enron
If you’re into plays based around colossal financial scandal, then now is a great time to be in the West End. Last autumn I saw The Power of Yes at the National, but the play that everyone was talking about was Enron. And this evening I finally got around to seeing the play that’s won…
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Magnificant Maps
Have I mentioned before how much I love maps? Oh yes, I have. The latest exhibition at the British Library is Magnificent Maps which opened on Friday. It shows off an enormous range of maps, from a Roman era floorplan engraved on a rock through a reproduction of the Mappa Mundi (recently commissioned by the…
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A Bit of the Dawn Chorus After and During the Rain
It was pretty wet last night in London, so I recorded this: Listen!
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And Something A Little Older
Chris Morris on the launch of Virgin 1215 from back in 1993. I’m looking forward to see Morris’ new film Four Lions next week.
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Station Cross Promotion
Richard Bacon hosted an Election Special on 6 Music on Friday discussing how each party might approach the music industry. John Wittingdale was on the programme for the Conservatives, and while I wouldn’t suggest that what he said on the programme would affect my vote, I did enjoy this bit:
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6 Music Campaign
I’ve not been into Fopp for ages so it was very interesting to see their default till message.
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The Art of Re-Mastering
I listened to this on the way into work this morning, and it’s a great little documentary about the art of re-mastering. Mohr-Pietsch talks to a number of different people who’ve been through the re-mastering process, and talks about the pros, and perhaps not so much, the cons. This is one of those instances where…
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Radio Times 27 April 2010
Just for a change, I thought I’d look at the radio pages of the (new look) Radio Times. This was inspired by Steve on the Radio 4 blog doing a similar thing with Radio 4’s listings alone. See the Radio 4 Flickr photostream for more. As always, best viewed large. And since this is radio,…
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Charlotte Street During Rush Hour
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River Sounding
I visited River Sounding over the weekend – the audio/video exhibition by Bill Fontana at Somerset House. He’s recorded audio and shot video along the full length of the Thames and then used it in an installation placed in the Lightwells and Dead House beneath Somerset House’s courtyard. There are lots of little rooms and…
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BBC Destroying Its Own Drama Series
I’m absolutely appalled. Really, really, appalled. If I was Steven Moffat, I would be wanting words with Jay Hunt, the Controller of BBC One. I’ve just watched this week’s episode of Doctor Who – Time of Angels. It’s a follow-up to an episode written by Moffat in the last full series, Blink, featuring once again,…
Hadrian’s Wall
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