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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
The Boston Globe’s “The Big Picture” is a fantastic that I visit everytime it’s updated. They’ve got some stunning photos of Obama taken over the last few weeks. The shots in the rain are awesome. F11 to maximise and then J and K to navigate. (A few photographers really need to clean their lenses/sensors though!)
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US Election Night 2008
You’ll get better, more accurate, and more timely information in a thousand other places online tonight, but I’m still blogging the election. 10:21 GMT So after I watched Obama speak, I did finally go to bed. But here’s the map as it now stands with two states still to be added. 4:57 GMT Still awaiting…
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Election Viewing
As America votes, there were a couple of fascinating films on TV recently which had well-timed screenings. On Friday there was a cracking film on BBC Four which isn’t available to watch on the iPlayer, so I can only recommend picking up the DVD instead. CSNY Deja Vu followed Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young on…
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Online Privacy
A couple of weeks ago, I started playing with Geode – a Firefox plugin that allows your browser to use geolocation technology to determine whereabouts you are. When you reach a Geode compatable site, a bar at the top of the browser asks you how much information you want to pass to the requesting site…
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Poor Journalism This Sunday
Finding poor journlism in the Sunday papers isn’t really hard, but The Observer had this story in yesterday’s paper. It begins: Media regulator Ofcom warned BBC bosses about lax editorial procedures on Russell Brand’s BBC 6 Music show over a year ago, it emerged last night. In a ruling published 15 months ago, it criticised…
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Quantum of Solace
I must admit that I managed to turn down two sets of free tickets for screenings I couldn’t make before finally paying to see the new Bond today. First the good things: Craig is still excellent as Bond, the premise of the story might not have been especially dwelt upon, but it was relevant, and…
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DAB/Internet Radio Question
Perhaps someone out there can answer me this: Is there a DAB/FM/Internet Radio out there that can also record to SD card (or hard disk, I guess)? The closest I can find are Pure’s Evoke Flow and the Roberts Stream 202 neither of which appear to be able to make timed recordings. On the other…
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Issue Du Jour
I’m loathe to return to this subject because it has been done to death everywhere now. But I think a few key things have come out. 1. The two presenters were exceptionally juvenile doing what they did and should have known better. 2. Although they were employed to push boundaries, they are well aware of…
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Overblown Nonsense
So the Ross/Brand things has blown up out of all proportion. Seriously. The scale of the media frenzy is in no way proportional to what actually happened. When I wrote about this the other day, I did so in a way that discussed something that would be of interest to people who read Media Guardian.…
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Dead Set
I’ll write more about this perhaps at a later date, but it suitably scary and a thoroughly enjoyable piece of drama. Obviously influenced heavily in style by 28 Days Later, but still excellent. How many times did I find myself saying “If only… If only…”? I see that it got a very strong audience of…
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Responsibility In Front Of A Microphone
In the last couple of days we’ve heard plenty about a “prank” that Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross played on actor Andrew Sachs a couple of weeks ago on Brand’s Radio 2 Saturday evening programme. As part of a pre-recorded show, when Sachs didn’t answer his phone for a pre-arranged interview, Brand (new book –…
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Julie Fowlis Live at Union Chapel
A great little gig at the wonderful Union Chapel in Islington with Julie Fowlis singing and playing some superb music in Gaelic. It was real toe-tapping stuff. And the support from Emily Smith was excellent too. I picked up her most recent album at the back of the hall on the way out. More photos…
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