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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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Mouse Path
My mouse trail from a morning at work. Generated using the fun Mouse Path software as linked to by the NY Times blog.
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BBC Mobile Apps
The big news eminating from the BBC today is that they’re finally getting around to releasing some mobile applications. That’s not entirely true: the BBC has previously released other applications, such as the iPlayer for various Nokia mobile phones. But notably, it hasn’t released any applications on the mobile daddy of them all – the…
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What’s The Truth Behind Digital Radio Figures?
The dust has settled a little bit on the last RAJAR figures were released. But there were a number of stories surrounding RAJAR much like this one, highlighting the fact that the overall level of digital listening fell from 21.1% in Q3 2009 to 20.9% in Q4 2009. That 0.2% drop was clearly disappointing, but…
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Vancouver A Sell Out?
According to the Vancouver organising committee, all 1.6m tickets for the Winter Olympics are expected to sell out. I’m always very suspicious of claims like that. Especially as I watched the USA v China Women’s Ice Hockey last night, and there were plenty of seats available. And I don’;t just mean a couple of no-shows…
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Radio Times 11 February 2010
Sorry – I only had a thick marker pen today. As ever, best viewed large.
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Premier League Commentary
A good night last night at Arsenal watching them beat Liverpool. And the other results were excellent too. So I’m really excited that today, Absolute Radio (my employer), has announced that it has won rights to live commentaries from a 3pm Premier League fixtures for three years from next season. Read more at the One…
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Newswipe on the Iraq Inquiry
I love Charlie Brooker’s Newswipe. It’s simply one of the best things on TV anywhere. Anyway – this week they covered the ongoing Iraq Inquiry, and in particular coverage of Blair’s appearance at the Inquiry. Except, the programme couldn’t show any of the the Inquiry. This is because television programmes can’t show clips of Parliamentary…
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The Chalk Circle Man
As I mentioned previously, I’m going to try to get around to talking more about what I’m reading here. I picked up The Chalk Circle Man, because I’d not previously read any Fred Vargas novels, but had heard good things about her, and I found myself in town at the weekend without anything to read…
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US Sport v European Sport
I stayed up late last night to watch the Superbowl. I like American Football, and once you get over the inordinate number of breaks in play it’s a fine sport. I suggest that you either diligently us your PVR in live pause mode, or do as I did last night and decide that it was…
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Iceland
I’ve been very slowly publishing my Iceland photos. Plenty more still to come.
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Transatlantic Sessions
Transatlantic Sessions is one of those TV programmes which you may have seen if you spend any time watching BBC Four, BBC Alba, or (I guess) BBC Scotland. Jerry Douglas hosts a variety of musicians from Scotland, Ireland, the US and elsewhere as they record – well, sessions – which are then broadcast in a…
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RAJAR Day
Most of my thoughts on RAJAR today are published on the One Golden Square blog. So I won’t bother repeating them here. I needed a photo to illustrate RAJAR on the blog, so I took the one above. Although RAJAR’s mostly electronic these days, printing a copy of the summary PDF is still useful. But…
Hadrian’s Wall
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