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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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Out To Get Clegg
I saw the Telegraph’s headline on Newsnight last night, and it was pretty clear that the right-wing press are out to prop up Cameron in any way they possibly can. But I didn’t see the Mail, Express or Sun front pages! “Clegg in Nazi Slur on Britain” in the Mail must surely take the biscuit.…
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On Volcanoes
If things had gone to plan this week, then I could currently be driving a rental car from Los Angeles to San Francisco by way of various national parks. This was after I’d taken photos of a friend’s wedding. Sadly, things didn’t happen that way, and instead I’ll be back into work this week. What…
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Orange World
Sometimes I think that Orange really is very classy. Orange is currently trying to merge with T-Mobile in the UK. If they get regulatory approval, the combined company will be the biggest mobile operator in the UK. So isn’t it charming when you open Orange World, their website which is set to be the default…
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3D Football
Sky is trumpeting the fact that last weekend’s fixture between Man Utd and Blackburn Rovers (a 0-0 “thriller”) was watched by 200,000 viewers. A remarkable achievement based on average of 133 people per pub in the 1500 or so pubs that have the 3D TVs so far. These are obviously all pretty large pubs! But…
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Breakfast Show TV Ads
At the weekend I was idly watching some television with the netbook on my lap (something that happens a bit too much) when out of the corner of my eye I noticed Johnny and Lisa on a TV ad. I looked up, keen to see what the new Capital Radio TV ad would look like.…
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Local Politics
My local MP is Labour member of Parliament, Joan Ryan. Not only does she have a second home close to Westminster despite living in a London Borough with tens of thousands of commuters who have journeys of equal of greater distance into work every day, but she also “flipped” her home. The Telegraph piece on…
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HTC Desire – Initial Thoughts
I’ve got a new phone, and it runs Google’s Android OS which is a first for me. It’s an HTC Desire, and I’ve had it less than 24 hours. So these are just some intital thoughts. I previously used the company’s Nexus One phone, and essentially this is the same phone as Google’s own phone.…
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Sony Radio Academy Awards
Wow! Look – allow me a little leeway as I get quite excited about something that is completely related to where I work. But Absolute Radio has just received an outstanding 12 Sony Radio Academy Award nominations this evening – 11 of which are for our main service, while the other is for Absolute Radio…
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Published Photography
At the weekend in The Observer, John Naughton wrote a column about photography in this day and age. He noted that in this day and age when many of us have access to exceptional photographic equipment (cameras just keep getting better – even the cheapest ones), and with billions of photos being placed online on…
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Radio Times – 4 April 2010
Just in case you needed advice on what to watch this Easter. As ever, best viewed large.
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Dawn on Easter Saturday
I got up early this morning and took a few photos of the cliffs at Beeston Hill, Sheringham, Norfolk. Locals erect a cross on the top of the hill on Good Friday. See the full set is here.
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What I’ve Been Listening To (And Watching)
There’s only one episode of Party to go, but listen in to part three before Wednesday. I’ll always listen or watch any programme based on the BBC Radiophonic Workshop and this week that meant listening to Archive on 4: Sculptress of Sound – The Lost World of Delia Derbyshire. In some respects it’s always Derbyshire…
Hadrian’s Wall
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